You experience "Monday Syndrome"?
Tips Productivity / / December 19, 2019
Our reader sent Alex Beep translation interesting article about how to start your morning. Thanks, Alex!
It is well known that the way you start your day sets the tone for the day. If you start it limp and drooping - so you and provedoto it all. But it is necessary to do a little preparation, you will feel that each new day brings you only joy in whatever difficult situation you do not hit.
Here are a few tips that will help you smoothly integrate into the new day, regardless of what is happening:
Wake up early. For many, this sounds like a death sentence, but the body will be much better if you lie down in bed a few minutes (but should not exaggerate this time), and then quietly climb. With a sharp rise from its slumber in the blood Crafted large amounts of adrenaline, provoking aggression and increased nervousness, but it evaporates quickly, the risk for a whole day and leave you sluggish disabled. Think about how much time you need to be prepared without undue haste and add 20-30 minutes. If you feel more tired by the end of the day - Teach yourself to go to bed a little earlier, it will help to gain extra points in the fight against "Monday syndrome".
Define special procedures for which you have to do every morning, so as not to perenagruzhat brain unwanted thoughts - it is easy to learn to do the mandatory morning procedures on the machine, especially if you do not "Lark". Thus, you guarantee yourself the minimum set for the preparation of action themselves for a new day will always be ready.
Always breakfast. It is not recommended to overeat at lunch, do not eat sweets and greasy, breakfast should be firm, but not obzhorskim.
Once again I repeat: the breakfast should not contain a lot of sweet or consist entirely of it. Sweets affect the body as drugs, but they are a carbohydrate, begin to disintegrate in the mouth and a couple of hours you'll be hungry
Plan your journey with a small margin to congestion suddenly you could not put into trouble, especially when it occurs on the day of an important meeting and so forth.
In fact, if you're driving around the city in the morning and in the evening by car, I recommend to be in possession of a GPS navigator for the calculations additional ways of movement, and also to know more stops and routes of transport, if you're driving around in his vehicle
Upon arrival at work to perform some ritual, which gently will switch you to the correct frequency - Welcome colleagues, drink a cup of tea, remove unnecessary paper from the table, something that is not directly related to work, but around it.
Take 10 minutes of prioritizing to-do list for the day. The worst - when the day is over, and instead of key cases all day long have you been doing minor.
Follow the plan, the harder the better, new tasks put on the stack or switch to them when they are small labor-intensive between the current job.
Never put off the most difficult and urgent cases "for later". If you can not organize the priorities of tasks, perform the most labor-intensive in the first place.
Remember, the most important thing - it's soft start. Do not mean and do not think that a new day - it's like falling off a ship in the open ocean, and you just need to pull the stronger the better. Imagine that you go down the stairs to the railing of the pool - it will be more literate comparison. Distribution of your efforts will help you move throughout the day at a constant speed.
Give yourself two weeks to work out the best scheme and rituals to start your day. Try different combinations and procedures and find the most suitable for you. After the best ways to secure it have been found in a few days and forget about the chaos that has stalked you in the morning. You will be surprised and delighted by what you are doing.