Four Things Successful People Do In The Early Hours Of The Day
The early hours of the morning can play a big role in how the rest of the day unfolds. Personal advisers to many corporate CEOs, great politicians and other influential people, such as Jennifer Cohen (Forbes columnist and personal trainer), say that most follow the common pattern of getting up early and taking advantage of the early hours of the day.
At the extreme are characters like Margaret Thatcher, who woke up every day at 5 am or Robert Iger, CEO of Disney, who gets up at around 4:30 am. However, contrary to what we may think, starting the day so early does not mean starting work so early, but simply waking up your senses earlier.
To understand it better, let’s look at the four things this columnist highlights in the behavior of the people she advises as responsible for their success :
1. They exercise: they stretch their body and activate it. Thus, they get to start the day with an extra energy point and create a positive inertia due to the flow of hormones that occurs with exercise. Somehow, they make that well-being that we feel when we finish exercising is the starting point of the day. This exercise does not have to be very intense. For example, 20 minutes of stationary bike or walking at a good pace and a few stretches are enough.
2. They plan the day and visualize it: most of them already know what they are going to do, but they spend a few minutes to specify schedules and visualize their activity, so that they can anticipate some of the possible stressful moments and outside of them they can think how to deal with them. In addition, it helps us to locate the breaks or the moments that we want to have free (which are equal or more important than the rest).
3. They eat a healthy breakfast: if we want our body to perform, it needs energy and it is best to give it the right way. If we do not do this, we probably: we already feel tired from the first hours of the day, we spend the morning biting or eating unhealthy foods. Thus, our nervous system will be much more prone to anxiety and we will arrive at the end of the day twice as tired.
4. They start with the job they least want: the first things they try to put on their agenda are the least desirable or most expensive. It is at the beginning of the day when we have the most energy and therefore the most propitious time to make the call we least like, the boring report or order the workplace. Like exercise, leaving this done in the first few hours makes the day seem more pleasant when we finish them.
As with any routine, getting up early and getting it right early in the day is hard. Rest is necessary and our body is well rested and more so when we live in a stressful day to day and we give it little respite. But if you start, you will see all these advantages little by little and you will also feel that it costs you less and less and that the positive energy you maintain throughout the day is much greater.
