First 10 minutes: the mistakes in the beginning of the working day

What will you do in the first 10 minutes of the working day depends on your performance in the following eight or nine hours. We will tell you about 10 of the typical traps that get people in the morning.





1. Late

One recent study shows that bosses believe is late the workers are less conscious and appreciate worse. Even if workers and leave work later. Unfair? But such is reality.

2. You are greeted with colleagues

Take a few minutes to exchange greetings and the latest news is a nice start to the day for you and for colleagues. But if you are a supervisor and not greet with the team, it can undermine people's perceptions of your competence.

3. Coffee

If you don't drink coffee immediately after waking up, it is very likely that refuel them on the way to the office. But studies show that the best time to drink coffee after 9.30. Cortisol, the stress hormone, which regulates energy usually reaches its peak from 8 to 9 am. If you drink coffee at this time, the body begins to produce less cortisol and more dependent on caffeine. But when cortisol starts to fall (after 9.30), then you will need coffee.

4. You reply to all emails

When you sit down at your table, there is a temptation at once to answer all letters that had accumulated the night before. But in the first minutes of the working day makes sense to view the mail quickly and to prioritize, to see if there's something urgent, and plan when you will answer all the rest. Otherwise, checking email and will have you feeling like you did something important, meanwhile, will distract you from really important things.

5. You have no plan

We recommend that before beginning the work day to have at least a General idea of where it'll lead. This means that you need to write down their main priorities and something that just needs to be done today and check my calendar and see what meetings or calls scheduled for today.

6. First you take the easy

As indicated by studies, throughout the day our energy and will power gradually. It is therefore imperative to do the important things as early as possible. Some call this strategy "eat the frog", remembering a joke by Mark TWAIN: "First thing in the morning eat a live frog, and rest assured, nothing worse with you is not going to happen."

7. Multitasking

In the morning you have so much energy that I want to take on all at once. But it hinders your performance in addressing the key problems. If you start the day with, that can solve some issues, you can numb yourself to the rest of the day. Correct to set a positive tone and focus on one task for at least 10 minutes.

8. Negative thoughts

You pushed some arrogant people in the subway, or in the evening you had a fight with his wife or husband. So be it, but don't let these feelings get the better of you in the morning. Suggest how to put those thoughts in a separate "box" — this will allow you at desire or need to return to them later.

9. The meeting

Meeting with the morning is a waste of your cognitive resources. Early morning better to save up for things that require significant concentration as writing and thinking about texts. And meetings it is better to appoint the time when the energy falls in the middle of the day, if these meetings do not themselves require enormous mental energy.

10. Breaking routine

Your cognitive resources are generally limited, so use them carefully. If at the beginning of the working day you suddenly start to decide what you to do now is to clear the mail, drink coffee, or take on a project, you will have less mental energy to work on this project. If you adhere to a routine, your brain some time to work on the machine and almost does not consume energy. Routine gives us the mental freedom to think about what is really important, and not think about the details. published

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