I remembered a blog post that I’d read on StevePavlina.com titled “The Rudder of the Day.” Steve compared the morning to the rudder on a ship: “If I’m lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day. But if I strive to make that first hour optimally productive, the rest of the day tends to follow suit.”

