- identify your Most Important Task (MIT)
- Resolve to get it done by 11 am.
That’s it!
It doesn’t have to be more complicated.
Everything else:
- Tea
- Water
- Coffee
- Breakfast
- Gratitude
- Breathing
- Journaling
- Meditation
- Visualization
- (Cold) shower
only prepare you for your MIT.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all up for a good morning routine. Still, whatever you call a morning routine is preparation for the real work. It’s like placing all the ingredients on the kitchen counter before you start cooking. Or like preparing your gym bag before going to the gym. Or like doing your research before you start starting writing your book.
It is also fine if you don’t have a morning routine, or if your morning activities vary from one day to another.
You can spend a few minutes in the evening thinking of the next day. This way, it’s easier to decide what is that one most important activity to complete the following day. Another way to approach it is to review your calendar in the morning.
How do you choose the MIT – you may ask?
The MIT is that activity that yields the best result for you.
It brings you closer to what you want to achieve.
It can be a standalone activity or a task that leads you to a bigger deliverable. There are deliverables that you want to complete that can’t be complete in one day. So you can break these deliverables in smaller tasks and then get one task done every day.
Consider breaking an activity in smaller, daily tasks for:
- creating a project plan
- setting team goals at work
- writing a document or a book
- creating an organizational structure
- coming up with a financial investment plan
or any other important deliverable you work towards.
So why is it so important to get the MIT done by 11 am?
Your most important task is to identify and complete by 11 am the most important task of your day.
