Book Summary: What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
Laura Vanderkam’s What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast is all about productivity and your morning routine. Laura helps you lay out a plan to fine tune your time management skills and find more time for the things that matter.
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Book Summary Notes:
- Most busy professionals agree that the easiest place to carve out some extra time is in the morning. Before the rest of the world needs your attention.
- Always try to start the day doing the things that matter most to you.
- In the urgent important matrix we want to get important but not urgent things done in our mornings. Things that usually our discipline may be too taxed later in the day to do.
- Mornings are perfect for family time and self care activities as well.
- Time tracking is a valuable tool not only for finding out where other opportunities for improvement are in your day To day but also to see how best to optimise your mornings. How do you spend your morning time?
- Make a picture of your ideal morning. What activities does it include? What time would you need to be up for them? Start to fill it out.
- Remember that it can take a while to develop new morning habits so be sure to make it easier by leaving yourself cues where’s possible. Maybe even writing a list and leaving it somewhere you frequently pass.
- Make sure to plan some excitement for the weekends. This gives you something to look forward to as well as helping your brain to remember what you’ve done.
- You can help your weekend planning by keeping and contributing frequently to a list of dream activities you’d like to do one weekend. Keep it somewhere multiple family members can see and add too. You can aim for 100 things on it first, by trying for a large number eventually the activities will get to be smaller and more doable as you run out of larger ones to list.
