Healthy Habits for Better Productivity and Joy

I think it's critical for you to develop some sort of morning success routine, so that you can come to work calm, centered, focused, and relaxed—yet energetic, alert, and feeling happy. By having a morning success ritual, you can dramatically improve the quality and quantity of work you get done…and raise your enjoyment too.

Suppose, on one hand, that you wake up to a screeching alarm, hurriedly shower, fix yourself up, and fight bumper-to-bumper traffic on the way to work. You skip breakfast, you feel sleep-deprived because you only got six hours sleep, and feel like you're running on empty all day. Now, contrast that approach to getting a full, deep, restful eight hours of sleep, waking up in the morning with exercising, stretching, focused breathing, clearing your mind. You take your vitamins and supplements, eat a nutritious breakfast, read a few pages of a positive book, reread your goals and focus on relaxing; and when you arrive to work, you're truly "in the zone."