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What the most successful people do before breakfast
- 1. What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: and two other short guides to achieving more at work and at home Laura Vanderkam
- 2. Overview About the author Book summary: Before breakfast On the weekend At work Time log examples Tools for a time makeover
- 3. About the Author Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. Her work has appeared in publications including Fast Company, Fortune, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and four children, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com. http://lauravanderkam.com/
- 5. Before Breakfast Mornings tend to be a crazy time for a lot of people Before most people have eaten breakfast, successful people have accomplished tasks that bring them closer to their goals If you wait until the end of the day, chances are something else will come up
- 6. A Matter of Willpower There are 168 hours in a week – but these hours are not equally suited to all things Mornings are a good time for exercise and focused work Research shows that tasks that require self-discipline are easier to do while the day is young By creating habits, you can by-pass having to use willpower
- 7. Important, but not urgent things The best morning habits are things that don’t have to happen, especially things that don’t have to happen at a specific time Things that require internal motivation and will result in long-term payoff The most successful people use their mornings for 3 things: Nurturing their careers – strategizing and focused work Nurturing their relationships – give their families and friends their best Nurturing themselves – exercise and spiritual creative practices
- 8. How to makeover your mornings: 1. Track your time 2. Picture the perfect morning 3. Think through the logistics 4. Build the habit 5. Tune up as necessary
- 10. On the Weekend The paradox of weekends: you have to set an appointment to go off the grid Rejuvenation: weekends stand between you and burnout Many struggle to use weekends well There are 60 hours between 6 pm Friday and 6 am Monday
- 11. The Paradox of Weekends What are we doing this weekend? Choose labors of a different sort Embrace Anticipation
- 12. How to Plan a Weekend Your list of 100 dreams Set anchors 6 secrets of successful weekends: Dig deep, use your mornings, create traditions, schedule downtime, make time to explore, and plan something fun for Sunday night Prioritize – what roles matter to you most?
- 13. Minimize the have-to-dos Compress chores Rethink kid’s activities Keep a tech Sabbath
- 14. At Work
- 15. At Work The secret to productivity: quantify your hours Make time to improve on your craft Capitalize on your most productive time
- 16. Disciplines of Productivity at Work: 1. Mind your hours 2. Plan 3. Make success possible 4. Know what is work 5. Practice 6. Pay in 7. Pursue pleasure
- 17. Discipline 1: Mind your hours If you want to use your hours more effectively, you have to figure out how you’re spending them now
- 18. Discipline 2: Plan Once you know how many working hours you have available, decide how you want to fill them and set a plan
- 19. Discipline 3: Make success possible Be choosy about what priorities you put on your to-do list Develop an accountability system that works
- 20. Discipline 4: Know what is work Know what things look like work, but actually aren’t work
- 21. Discipline 5: Practice Perform or work at something repeatedly until you become proficient
- 22. Discipline 6: Pay In Pay into your account of career capital Being employed isn’t the end goal, remaining employable is
- 23. Discipline 7: Pursue Pleasure Productivity is a function of joy
- 24. Time Logs
- 25. Log 1: Greg Head pastor of All Saints’ United Methodist Church in Raleigh, NC New church, has been growing rapidly, and his family has grown as well (he and his wife have a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old The problem: Time was fragmented as he had to deal with parishioners’ crises Carved out hours each Thursday to write the week’s sermon, but wasn’t finding time to work on a marriage preparation curriculum he was developing The solution: Plan a weekly date night instead of an hour of TV each night with wife Use this time at night to go to bed earlier, and wake up earlier to spend an hour every morning on curriculum writing Once this is a habit and the curriculum is done, this time can be used to write sermons and his Thursday slot can be filled with something else
- 26. Log 2: Darren Assistant professor at Baylor College of Dentistry Working towards his master’s degree in education for healthcare professionals Lived near work and walked to work, and back home for lunch (to walk and care for his dogs) The problem: Top priorities included teaching preparation, teaching, research, writing, and working on degree – but weren’t getting done Academic writing was the biggest challenge The solution: Was already a morning person, so instead of getting up early and taking care of the dogs, his partner took the morning shift with the dogs and he kept his lunch routine. He could then get into work early and focus on academic writing before students and faculty were coming into his office
- 27. Log 3: Jackie Attorney at a small firm in Chicago Her husband is also an attorney, and they have a 1-year-old son The problem: Wanted to spend more time on things she used to love - taking time to get ready for work and exercise The solution: Had been getting up at 5 to give the baby a bottle, then going back to bed, but not really sleeping Staying awake, and using the extra time to get ready/work out 2 days a week she went to the gym, got ready for work there and headed straight to work, 2 days a week her husband did
- 28. Log 4: Jaime Stay-at-home, homeschooling mom of a 5-year-old and 2-year-old The problem: Wanted to spend more quality time with her children during the day Felt constantly distracted by cooking, cleaning, errands, and teaching The solution: Wake up before boys to check e-mail, social media, and do housework Plan fun adventures to do with the children, take 2 or 3 a week in the mornings Spend the afternoons homeschooling the 5-year-old while the 2-year-old naps
- 29. Your Own Time Makeover
- 30. How to do your own time makeover 1. Log your time 2. Do the math 3. Get real 4. Dream big 5. Give goals a timeline 6. Break it down 7. Plan to plan 8. Hold yourself accountable
- 31. Questions?
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- Laura Vanderkam is a self-described night-owl, and in college/before she had kids, she would do most of her writing at night After she had kids, she continued to write at night, but had to hire a baysitter to do so, or would be constantly distracted Since realizing this, started getting up earlier to get a jump on the day before the kids wake up Exercise: If you try to push it until after work, it won’t get done. Things come up, work goes late, you become tired, etc., and you only have to shower once if you exercise early Focused work: have a burst of about 90 minutes of productivity in the mornings, then focus goes downhill during the afternoon Willpower becomes fatigued (like a muscle) from overuse. You have one energy resource for all types of self control but it is fresh in the morning after a good night’s sleep (twitter feeds in the am vs. the pm – more likely to use words “awesome” and “super” between 6 and 9) Research from Dr. Baumeister, a professor of psychology at Florida state
- Priorities will get met regardless throughout the day (conference calls) laundry tends to get done because it has to get done Checking twitter, answering an email that doesn’t require an urgent response, and watching TV – instant gratification but no long-term benefits Career: Debbie Moyschyn – building a division of healthcare education at Brandman U. Her teenage daughter played water polo and would need to be at school early for practice (well before 7am). Debbie would go home and watch TV or go into the office to clean out her inbox. Her days were filled with meetings and chats and calls (open door policy) – did not get very far on projects. Switched inbox to the 5 minute gaps between meetings, calls, etc. and used 6:30 to work on projects without interruptions. Could work on projects, brainstorm, planning, etc. Relationships: Kathryn Murphy, Corporate tax attorney who had a hard time getting home early enough to spend time with her daughter, switched mornings to family time instead of evenings, family breakfast every day instead of family dinner. Themselves: Various subjects use the mornings to exercise; can also use mornings to meditate, do yoga, journal, or read spiritual text. Many find that if they didn’t make time for themselves in the morning, they never would have any.
- Weekends seem expansive, yet finite Weekends can quickly disappear into chores, checking email, running errands, accidental TV marathons, and shuttling children to activities You have a limited supply of weekends in your life, and successful people know that weekends deserve even more care than working days Arrange your weekends to create a fuller life over time
- In many households, this question doesn’t get asked until Friday night or Saturday morning. Time will be filled with something, whether its consciously chosen or not – consider applying structure to your weekends Mike Huckabee works 6 days a week, and his 7th day for rest is always structured: wakes up at 6, exercises, reads various papers, attends a church service with his wife, out to lunch, spends time outdoors, then has friends over for dinner. Feels refreshed and recharged going into the next week. Your weekends should be different from your workdays (think cross-training or active rest in exercise) so the same muscles aren’t always strained in the same way Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelson plays soccer on weekends with friends, while I run I think about food, but differently than I do while I’m in the kitchen A good weekend needs a good plan Make it an appointment – one interviewee chops wood to decompress. If you had a toddler at home, you’d have to plan accordingly to make sure they’re occupied and don’t try to help; a meal out needs a reservations; seeing friends needs a meeting time/place Anticipation – you experience some of the joy that you would in the actual moment, so planning and being able to anticipate allows that joy to stretch longer (but they have to be enjoyable plans)
- When making a list of 100 dreams, you run out of the huge bucket-list items fairly quickly (i.e. see the pyramids in Egypt), what’s left are doable dreams like attending a concert or going to an art museum, or even going for a long bike ride. Focus on what’s in a 2-hour radius from you and those can become weekend plans In consultation with your family/friends, pick items from the list and peg them to the major weekend spots: Friday night, Saturday day, Saturday night, Sunday day, Sunday night. These are your anchors, and they can be as loosely or tightly defined as you like (3-5 is ideal) Sunday nights usually aren’t fun, start to prepare for/dread the looming workweek ahead. Prepare for the workweek Sunday day (or Saturday day), and have something fun so your anticipation and enjoyment stretch as far as possible, and you start Monday more refreshed
- Chores tend to fill the available space for them. If you use weekdays for chores, they will often take less time because you’ll have less time, but they’ll still get done (laundry, picking up the kitchen, cleaning a bathroom). Some chores, like grocery shopping when out of essentials can’t wait, but others can be moved to another day If chores need to get done, or you can’t relax on the weekend without them done, don’t let them become so big that they take the place of rejeuvination Schedule other activities for yourself during kids activities, like a family picnic or a walk in the park their practice is in. Setting an appointment will ensure you keep it, and it reminds you there are other parts to your weekend besides children’s sports A stretch of time apart from technology creates space for other things in life. If you need to work/check email, set a time for it and then don’t go back to it when you’re done Bill McGowan, TV correspondent checks emails and works for a few hours on his porch on Saturday morning and, throws responses in the draft folder to be sent Monday, and then puts his work away for the remainder of the weekend
- Quantify your hours in a way that makes sense to you: Artist LeUyen Pham for example know that it takes her one Seinfeld episode to finish a drawing, which she plays in the background while she works. Know how long the tasks of your job actually take so you can use your time effectively Take on projects that challenge you or make you better – like money take a chunk of what is coming and invest it in ways that you see returns For Pham, this productive time is between 11pm and 2 am when the house is quiet and she can work without distractions. Figure out what time that is in your workday and set it aside for focused work
- Data from the American time use survey (conducted annually by the bureau of labor statistics): we overestimate time spent on housework, we underestimate time spent on sleep, American women now spend more time with their children than their grandmothers did in the 50’s and 60’s. These misconceptions continue into how we view working time as well: those who claimed that their usual work week was 65 – 74 hours were off by almost 20. Those claiming a 55-64 hour work week were off by about 10. If you think you’re working 80 hours a week, you’ll make choices differently than you would if you were working 60 – keeping track of your time to be productive is like keeping a food journal on a diet. Track your minutes (for a few days or for a week, not forever) and see where your spending time and where adjustments can be made
- Institute a weekly planning period for strategic thinking: What are your priorities, how will you distribute them, and what questions may come up? Carve out a couple of hours over the weekend, or even at the end of the week Friday so that you don’t waste working hours Monday morning trying to figure out what to do Include weekly review time in this planning period (or separate it out): look at loose ends, put things on the someday/maybe list, and determine next steps for big projects. Consider planning your personal time during the week too: Mike Williams, former executive at GE, now CEO of David Allen Company will spend a few minutes at the end of the day reviewing what he’d like to focus on that night.
- Successful people treat a to-do list as a contract, and are careful to not overload it with unimportant tasks or things that can’t possible all get done Charlene Johnson, fitness personality and trainer, only puts 6 things on her list: 3 have-to-dos for that day and 3 smaller steps toward “push” goals –long term goal for the year Develop an accountability system: Johnson sets mental triggers (i.e. every time she sees the number 11 somewhere she checks her list). Her to-do list is on her phone, so if one item is texting someone she can do it while in line at the grocery store Can join an accountability group or have an accountability partner (no one wants to look like a failure in front of people whose opinions they value) Online communities, apps, etc. Commitment contracts/accountability to peers triple your chances of success towards a goal
- Something may theoretically be a part of your job, but if it isn’t advancing you toward bigger goals, it isn’t really work (i.e. checking your inbox every 5 minutes) Meetings, phone calls, emails – you have to do them, but successful people constantly calculate the opportunity cost of such activities You could block an hour but not take an hour: Colin Day, CEO of an HR software company has an hour scheduled weekly to meet with each of his 5 direct-reports. But if the meeting only takes a few minutes, they each gain back bonus time to work on projects This will differ in different jobs
- Most of us drive every day, but never improve at driving Anything that involves skill can be practiced, if you focus on improving Treat work with a practice mindset, use everyday tasks to try to constantly improve at the required tasks of your job, the more you practice, the better you get, and the more productive you are If you aren’t sure what to practice, talk to your co-workers. Ask what skills they think are most important to your job, and start there
- If practice is about the skills you already have, this is about the skills you will need in the future. If you come across something at work you aren’t familiar with, write it down and research. Can you take a class, find a mentor, or develop a tangible portfolio? Use tangible evidence of your contributions to keep track of your career capital investments Work towards building up a network of people that are valuable to you, and be there for your network when they need something from you – you never know when you might need something from them
- This might be the hardest discipline to employ. Successful people know that there isn’t any benefit from doing something for 40+ hours a week that doesn’t bring them any joy. Real progress brings people joy so if you don’t inherently love the work you’re doing, focus on progress on real, important projects (not e-mailing), and that in itself will bring you joy and help keep you productive If you haven’t felt joy at work in a long time, think about the last time you did. What were you doing, and how can you re-create those conditions?
- For help getting up earlier: moved the coffee pot into his bedroom and set a timer so he would wake up to the smell of coffee (his favorite thing about the morning) Getting up early turned out to be 3 habits: Getting to bed on time Getting up early Staying awake and writing
- Had been reflecting/meditating/journaling first thing, moved this to the end of the day so he could do his most difficult writing while he was still fresh This enabled him to find time in the afternoon (after his classes) to work on his master’s degree
- She and her husband took turns on mornings with the baby so they could each spend some time doing something they enjoyed She ended up being less groggy and more awake than when she had went back to bed for restless sleep
- She felt she had more quality time with her children without the distractions, and was more joyful during the day No longer ended the day feeling guilty about not doing more with the children