When you get to work in the morning, how do you start your
day? Do you immediately check your voicemail and email to see what you missed
since leaving the office, or do you make a plan of action for the rest of the
day?
According
to a quiz from Leadership IQ, about 66% of people start with their email or voicemail,
while the remainder hold off until after they’ve established their daily plan. Mark
Murphy worked with the data from this Leadership IQ online test and came to
some troubling conclusions. Murphy found
that those who checked their email first thing were 82% more likely to also
respond that they wasted more than half their time at work. However, those who
started their day by planning were 45% more likely to feel as though they had “a
really successful day”.
This data
obviously goes to show that before diving head first into correspondence, it’s vital
to take a few minutes to set a list of goals for yourself. Your daily goals don’t
have to turn into an intense, detailed schedule of everything you must
accomplish on a given day. What’s important is that you create a list- no matter
the length or focus- and commit to completing it. How do you start your
mornings? Leave your tips in the comments below!
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