PRODUCTIVITY

Here’s How to Start Your Day Right

From tone setting to body prep, here’s how to kick off your best day

Christina M. Ward
ILLUMINATION
Published in
6 min readMay 6, 2024

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How you kick off your day can determine your productivity, keep you on track, and help you remember important details. Studies at Harvard demonstrate that planning increases follow-through.

And with today’s distraction culture pulling at our time and attention…it’s hard to remember all we have to do. We spend much of our days reacting rather than doing with intention.

Today, we’re taking a look at:

➡️ How to begin your day in the right mindset

➡️ How to prepare your body and mind for a productive day

➡️ The concept of the “Big Three

➡️ Time-wasters to avoid

And more…

Beginning Your Day with the Right Mindset

Waking up pleasantly is the best thing you can do to kick off a successful day. Do you wake up feeling full of excitement over the day’s possibilities? Or do you roll out of bed with a deep sigh?

To capture that morning zeal or set aside those sighs — a little sunlight therapy helps to pull your mind from sleep inertia. Get 5–10 minutes of…

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Christina M. Ward
ILLUMINATION

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