5 Things You Can Do (or Shouldn’t Do) In The Morning to Increase Your Productivity

4. Make Your Bed

We are all stuck at home and now more than ever we must stay on task and get work done.

You get up and do the essentials, brush your teeth, dress up, and take a shower. After getting some coffee and preparing for work. You check your phone and your day starts with a slow mourning slump. You get barely any work done and fail to finish any big plans.

If this sounds anything like your morning, then you are in luck. Here are five things that you can do in the morning that will increase your productivity.

I will keep it short and sweet with the five here:

 1. Do Your Most Important Tasks First
 2. Don’t Hit The Snooze Button
 3. Don’t Look At Your Phone
 4. Make Your Bed
 5. Get a Healthy Breakfast 
 Conclusion

1. Do Your Most Important Tasks First

We all are different, but this rule applies to everyone. Our brains always run out of energy the longer we use it. So, that is why you should always do your most important work first.

The task should also be a bit less enjoyable because it will make you feel challenged and accomplished when you finish it. The tasks that are simple and easy are enjoyable but learning from them is impossible.

The sense of accomplishment when you finish that difficult task will keep the ball rolling down the hill of work, and you will finish with all the work in no time.

Start with the most important, and you will have more and more time to do other things like learn a new subject or just read a good book.

2. Don’t Hit The Snooze Button

Hitting the snooze button is not good because you let yourselves get 10 more minutes of “sleep” which just ruins how you feel after you wake up. It will make you later and more rushed to get work.

The snooze button not only affects your day but also the long term brain and body. You hit the snooze button will make you get less sleep because it will throw your sleep schedule off. Research states that adults have a higher chance of gaining weight if they get less sleep which is caused by hitting the snooze button.

We all hit the snooze button, some more than others, and usually, it’s because our alarm sounds before we finish our sleep cycle. A sleep cycle lasts around 90 minutes. You should measure when you want to wake up and how many hours you need to sleep to calculate your designated sleep time.

By your sleep time, you should be in bed without your phone and when you wake up you should feel more refreshed and more ready for the day ahead.

3. Don’t Look At Your Phone

My phone is usually in a drawl or across the room when I sleep. It is not only so I don’t look at my phone before I sleep but also to make me get up in the morning and make it impossible to hit the snooze button and go back to bed.

If you have your alarm on your phone, put your phone across the room before you get ready for bed. You have to put it before because if you bring it with you to your bed you will be more tempted to look at it and not get a good night’s rest. Then when you get up you will not be able to stay in bed.

Turn off the alarm and do not look at it again. Social media and people texting makes your brain reactive and will make you be ready for anything but not do anything with your day. Starting a day reactive is a horrible habit. Instead, you should start it by making your bed and starting your day with an accomplishment.

Don’t look at your phone and turn off notifications so in the morning you will have an active day.

4. Make Your Bed

Making your bed is a great thing to do in the morning. It is a little task, but it makes your brain more active and not reactive. Also, the time you have here can be used to think about other things, like your tasks for the day.

When you finish a long gruesome day that treated you horribly, you will still come home to find you bed nice and neat. You will get the appreciation on having what you have. The littlest things might just make your day or week or even year just that much better.

Making your bed might just start your organization journey. You will clean up your dirt and gunk off your workspace and feel a new refreshing feeling that will change your day.

The small task of making your bed is an accomplishment. Not a huge one but it will boost your confidence and motivation.

Make your bed and start your day on the right foot.

5. Get a Healthy Breakfast

Getting a healthy breakfast is simple, cook it yourself and done. But when you eat your great meal DO NOT look at your phone. Like I stated above, looking at your phone will make you reactive and not active. You can read a book or do some research on a new idea you had.

Also, when you eat anywhere you shouldn’t look at screens because you are more enjoying your screen than your actual food. This habit not just in the morning will help reduce screen time and make you more productive.

So, have a healthy breakfast to give you energy but don’t look at screens while you do it. You will be able to enjoy the effort you put into making it and become more of an active thinker.

Conclusion

Our phones are probably our biggest distractions because we have them everywhere and use them everywhere. But trying to minimize the usage of them will greatly increase your productivity and give your eyes a break from staring at screens all day.

Small accomplishments lead to great rewards. They also may you more thankful for what you have done and will make you an overall more confident person.

Implement these five things, and you will start a rocket to sour through the day.

Hope this helped, see you next time.

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