Many people sabotage their mornings by overusing their phones and giving into late-night streaming.
Instead of checking your phone immediately when you wake up, try instead to start the day with exercise or stretching.
Everyone loves to swap tips about how to make an epic morning routine, but when it comes to implementation, there are a few easy whoopsies that are far too easy to make. Hitting the snooze button, starting your day from the bed and sacrificing your morning productivity time for a late night Netflix marathon are all potential ways to sabotage the potential your mornings have.
And potential, indeed. A growing body of research is finding that mornings are actually the most optimal time for you to ideate or be creative. A study in the Thinking & Reasoning Journal reported that the perceived to be least optimal times for thinking and creativity (such as first thing in the morning, when you re groggy and still on your first cup of coffee) are actually the most optimal
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Even in companies with a relaxed work culture, one expert says it’s still “essential” to keep some boundaries between you and your manager.
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