Morning rituals of successful people: 7 inspiring stories

1. Sherry Lansing

The former president of 20th Century Fox and the chairman of Paramount Pictures. The first woman to head a Hollywood studio.

Sherry pays special attention to the morning workout and exercise at least four times a week. According to her, physical activity should be treated as responsible, as well as to the important business meetings - not to miss in any case.

Of course, there are unforeseen circumstances that make move the training to the background, but that is no reason to reproach myself. You just need to try to return to the regime and to keep it at least two weeks. Almost immediately it becomes noticeable as improve mood and increase productivity.

2. Edwin Catmull

President of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Ed is afraid of inadvertently wake the wife, so puts on alarm clock uplink signal. Hardly progudit first - he immediately wakes up and turns it off. Before the morning workout Ed certainly meditate for 30-60 minutes.

It is always some form of vipassana. For example, focusing attention on the breath. Ed shares that he benefited from the ability to turn off the inner voice.

I realized that this voice - not me and that I did not need either continuously analyze past events, nor think too much about the future. This knowledge helped me to focus and pause before reacting to unforeseen events.

Edwin Catmull

3. Biz Stone

Co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter.

Bis for the best alarm clock - his five year old son. Every morning he comes to his father, and together they play. And it is a tradition of several years. At this time there is no room phone. Biz reserves the eve smartphone off at the front door, not to forget his way to work.

If I do not have a chance to play in the morning with my son, I feel as if he missed something important, which will never return. It is such a joy - to wake up and be a five-year child, before moving on to the role of leader.

Biz Stone

4. El Moon

Bestselling author "Between the need to and want to"And"The strength of your story", Designer and artist.

El attaches great importance to their dreams. Every morning, while the state between sleep and wakefulness, she taped their dreams and then divided feelings on what he saw. El sure that these images and stories contain tips and a key to understanding what is happening to us actually.

To dream books she does not go - he says that more important than our own interpretation. After breakfast proceed to El "notes an empty head" - three pages of thoughts written by hand. Fixing on paper may be anything, because it is intended for your eyes only.

Practice morning pages with something similar to sweeping the floor - then simply feel better.

El Moon

5. Austin Kleon

Author of the bestseller "Steal like an artist", artist.

Almost every morning, rain or shine, Austin and his wife puts two sons in a red double stroller and sent to the five-kilometer outing in the surrounding area. He admits that it is often quite difficult, and sometimes even require a huge effort, but it is extremely important for the future of the day.

It was then that we originate interesting ideas. This is the time when we make plans, observe the wildlife of our suburb, talking about politics, and cast out his demons.

Austin Kleon

Austin almost never appoints morning meetings and does not go on the morning interview, with the course of his walk with the family.

6. Geoff Colvin

Editor in chief of the business magazine Fortune, a well-known American journalist.

Jeff gets up at seven o'clock and in the first few minutes after waking up as many as three drinks a glass of water. He claims that this allows you to awaken the body and brain. then engaged stretching and runs 10 kilometers, followed by a shower, breakfast and work.

Jeff is sleeping at least 9 hours. He himself says that this is a lot, but on his approach is not going to give up. For breakfast, he uses one of four types of oatmeal: raw oats, coarse oatmeal, cereal or mixture of oat bran and wheat. All of porridge prepared with fat-free milk instead of water.

But the most important part of the morning is still drawing up a list of daily chores - Jeff immediately identifies the most important and difficult points and begins its work primarily with them.

7. Rebecca Soni

Three-time Olympic swimming champion.

Rebecca always planning the next day before you go to bed. As an entrepreneur, work at home, she has every day to make many small decisions. She discovered that the great planning helps avoid fatigue the next morning.

Such an approach it applies not only to work, but also in sports. For example, if the scheduled early training, the sports form will be prepared the night before. If some of the morning rituals violated, Rebecca can feel a little dispersed. But it motivates together and the next morning to make everything as follows: early awakeningA glass of water, sports, breakfast and planning.

The material is prepared based on the book "Morning rituals. How successful people start their day». With its help you will be able to understand how you should start the day, and to develop new habits that will contribute to your development. The first hour after you wake up - foundation, on which stands the whole day. Remember: Do not you work for the rituals, and they work for you.

At the heart of this book - more than 300 interviews, devoted to the morning routine. In addition, there are 64 interviews with a variety of successful people - from General US Army retired to the three-time Olympic champion in swimming.

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