5 Things Successful Executives Do Before Noon - InteGrand
You can learn a lot from different success stories. Business success stories have been where you sit and have grown into their current situations. Executives are those who have worked hard to get where they are. Here are 5 things successful business people do before noon:
- Get up early. It can be difficult to become an early riser if your inner clock tells you to wake up at noon every day. Successful people know that waking up early provides the most important resource: time to get things done.
- Take quiet time. The mornings can be impossibly hectic, especially if you are heading to the office before the clock’s struck 9. According to recent studies, you’re either a morning person or you’re not—some of us are in-between, but we can’t exactly help how we feel when our alarms go off in the morning. Allowing yourself time to slowly get out of bed, to sit and clear the mind, creates a calm energy in the morning that you can feed off of for the rest of the day. This is a truly invigorating and stress-relieving practice, clearing the way to that day’s success.
- Eat breakfast and exercise. It’s been proven that eating breakfast improves your focus and kick-starts your metabolism. Our bodies need fuel in the morning and a healthy breakfast can give us just the start we need. Speaking of our bodies, it can feel almost impossible to get going if you haven’t warmed up for the day. If you don’t exercise, it can take until nighttime to finally loosen up—and by that time, successful people are winding down for bed, having gotten everything crossed off the to-do list already.
- Make a To-Do list. Making a To-Do list is the first thing on a successful person’s To-Do list in the morning. Writing things down gets them off our chest and out into the world. It helps psychologically to take a step back, look at the things we have to do, and order them in a way that makes sense to us. It’s good for stress because we’re not relying on our memory to get everything done during the day. It helps us to organize our ideas and thoughts, to predict what resources and materials we’ll need that day, and to visualize what the day will look like before setting out on it.
- Organize surroundings. To be your most productive self, it helps to have a clean slate, both internally and externally. Straightening up in the mornings—or even every night before going to sleep—means taking care of your dirty dishes and putting everything back where it belongs so that you can easily find it. Having a clean and organized external world gives us the chance to erase stress from our brains. No longer are you searching during the morning rush for your keys or your clean socks. There are less surprises this way, allowing you to stay focused and on-track!
