Perform Your Hardest Tasks In The Morning
As soon as humanly possible, start performing your most difficult work tasks during the first four hours of your day.
How this will affect your energy mainly has to do with your psychological state. For many people, their energy depends a lot on how they’re feeling that day. That makes sense. When you feel good, you have more energy. When you feel bad, your energy levels plummet. Getting some work done early in the day will definitely add to that good mood. When you do some important tasks, you naturally want to attack your day and get more done. When you waste the first hours of your day, you will want to do nothing but play on your phone, mess around on social media, or haunt your email inbox while not doing any actual work.
Another reason why you want to do your hardest tasks early in the morning is that most people can’t perform deep work sessions for their entire day. By doing the hard work early on instead of trying to do it throughout your day, you’re actually preserving energy that you can then use for other things.
Try This Takeaway: Make the first four hours of your morning a strict period for work tasks.
