A Simple Way To Make Your Days Effective.

One of the unsung heroes of better time management and a more effective day is to begin the day with a morning routine that focuses and energises you. When you start the day with time for yourself and a review of what you want to accomplish, you will become more effective and focused.

The critical part is building a morning routine that works for you. Someone else’s morning routine is not going to do it. They live different lives, have other priorities and perform different jobs. Hence, if you try to follow someone else’s morning routine, you will struggle and be inconsistent, which you will soon stop doing.

How do you develop a morning routine?

The place to start is to decide when you want your day to start. For example, my day generally begins at 8:00 am. So, whatever I want to do as part of my morning routine needs to occur before 8:00 am.

This means if I aim to spend two hours on myself in the morning, am I confident I will be able to wake up at 6:00 am each day? The answer to that is no. I am not. I often finish late in the evening and need around seven hours of sleep. So, waking up at 6:00 am each day would require me to be in bed around 10:30 pm, which does not fit my schedule.