![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever the ritual, though, there is a reason for these early morning routines. Before the rest of the world is eating breakfast, the most successful people have already scored daily victories that are advancing them toward the lives they want. Indeed, learning to use mornings well is, in our distracted world, what separates achievement from madness. Times for habits that help one grow into a better person. We have time, but it’s consumed by sound and fury that culminates in few accomplishments beyond getting out the door. The madness of mornings is a key reason most of us believe we have no time. Dual-income couples could find only 12 minutes a day to talk with each other.And by “start work” I mean “show up at the workplace. Yet many people don’t start work until 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. on a typical weekday morning, with 46– 64-year-olds rousting themselves at 5:57. According to the National Sleep Foundation’s 2011 Sleep in America poll, the average 30–45-year-old claims to get out of bed at 5:59 a.m.In What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings–and Life, author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, describes through real-life anecdotes and scientific research why the early hours of the day are so important and how successful people use mornings to help them accomplish things that are often impossible to take care of later in the day. ![]()
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