Performance Hack #21: Find Your Firsts First days are important for all of us, be it the first day at school or at a new job, the first day of the year or month. These days are more significant than others in our minds thanks to the power of new beginnings, which is why we all make birthday or New Year’s resolutions. Author Daniel Pink says that we can assign similar importance to other seemingly ordinary days to motivate ourselves, and get more done. He identifies 86 such days: Mondays (52), the first day of every month (12), and the first day of every season (4). The rest of the days include
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