Habits and Plans of Successful People
In my last essay, I gave you an exclusive look inside my daily routine. Let’s pick up where we left off and look at how I schedule my afternoons. After a morning filled with writing, exercise, and time with the dog, I break at 12:30 PM. Lunch is a spartan affair,…
READ MOREMy Daily Routine for 2015
In 1851, Victor Hugo, the author of Les Miserables, was living on the island of Guernsey. His daily routine could only be described as cartoonishly virile. He rose at dawn, drank his morning coffee, ate two raw eggs, and wrote until 11:00 AM while standing at a small desk overlooking the English…
READ MOREHow To Read An Extra 52 Helpful Books This Year
You can give yourself a competitive edge—one that could pay you big dividends one day—by doing a little carefully calculated extra reading this year. I know you are busy already, but what I’m about to suggest won’t take too much time—and the benefits you’ll get from it will be wonderful.…
READ MOREAn Addict’s Guide to Overcoming the Distraction Habit
Yesterday wasn’t a very focused day for me — I got work done, but I also researched a bunch of newish personal interests (mostly programming and cycling), played an iPhone trivia game with my kids, read a bunch of online articles, and did very little of the writing I’d planned.…
READ MOREThe Perfect Morning Schedule for an Employee
You don’t own the business. You might not choose your own work hours, but you can still use the productivity tips shared here yesterday by entrepreneur, Mark Ford. I asked Mark, “How does an ambitious Early to Rise reader, particularly employees, create a perfectly productive day when they must stick…
READ MOREThomas Jefferson’s 11 Rules for a Great Life
Today marks what would have been the 272nd birthday of the 5th most popular President in History, according to the New York Times. Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and the 3rd President of the United States of America, holding office from…
READ MOREHow the Fifth Most Powerful Woman in the World Always Gets Home for Dinner
The fifth most powerful woman in the world, Sheryl Sandberg the COO of Facebook, is driven. successful, and uses this rule to get home for dinner.
READ MOREHow to Be a Superachiever
Here is a simple but profound plan to immediately multiply your productivity. Don’t let the simplicity fool you. I’m not talking about doing more activity – more work in less time. I mean more accomplishment – more productivity (results, money, goal attainment)… all while living a much more stress free…
READ MOREA Secret to Making Your To-Do List
Once upon a time, as the consulting legend goes, a young man named Ivy Lee was asked to help an American captain of industry be more productive. According to Earl Nightingale, the author who made the story famous, young Lee delivered a simple solution. He found most employees wasted their time…
READ MOREThe Cult of Busy
Over a leisurely lunch recently, a good friend lamented that he was “too busy” to read. I smiled. Our meal lasted an hour and a half. We then strolled to a nearby restaurant, evaluating the menu for an upcoming dinner party. My friend then headed to a meeting about a…
READ MOREHow to Save 5 Hours and Take an Afternoon Off
It was a regretful moment. Three days after it happened, I received an email. “Craig,” my friend David wrote, why did we have that meeting if you were going to spend your time focused more on your email than participating in the discussion? Ouch. How embarrassing. I had let my good…
READ MOREHow to Find the Time to Succeed
Alice, a single mother, began her writing career in the 1950’s. Living above the bookshop in Victoria, B.C., where she worked, Alice would write in any free moment she could find, often when her oldest daughter was at school and the youngest was taking a nap. In Mason Currey’s exceptional book,…
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