How do they do it? How do the most bright-eyed and successful among us solve the Monday problem?
To the average worker, Monday is often a dreary disaster. We struggle to acclimate ourselves to the work world after the freedom of the weekend. Then we see top performers coming in and thriving on Monday, and we wonder exactly what their secrets are.
Here are three general ways that career professionals boost their productivity at the beginning of the week.
Physical Solutions – Less Sleep, More Physical Activity
It’s not that successful people don’t get sleep. They tend to get just enough. Many of them will go to bed at a reasonable hour on Sunday night. On Monday morning, they may sleep until a reasonable time, but they won’t give in to that scourge of the everyday worker bee – the “snooze” button.
They won’t overindulge in sleep, which can make someone very lethargic and unproductive. Instead, many of the most successful people at any company will have the discipline to always get up at the same time. They’ll also tend to pursue some physical activity in the morning before work. This does a number of excellent things for the body and mind. It gets the circulation going, and it gets the metabolism going, too. This is more than just a diet regimen. It also helps add clarity and focus for when your Monday morning starts.
Organization – Keeping All of Your Ducks in a Row
The most successful among us often have a high level of organization for their workday, so Monday or any other day won’t catch them off guard. They don’t get distracted by checking e-mail and doing other incremental and never-ending tasks. They carve out chunks of time for each task, and stick to it. This greatly increases productivity, because it puts every individual task into its own time box. Without this kind of schedule and organization, it’s easy to work most of the Monday or any other day of the week without really doing much at all.
Tackle the Big Jobs
In general, successful people are not procrastinators. They have the confidence to attack the tough stuff first, and not put it off until the end of the week or try to kick the ball down the road. Others who might balk at completing their toughest assignments might fool around with smaller things most of the week and then run into a real time crunch later. Being able to take the bull by the horns and get the big stuff done on Mondays is a big indicator of how far someone can go at a firm.
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