How To Really Win The Afternoon
2PM is too early to go home, isn’t it?
A lot — and I mean, a lot — has been said about morning routines. I’ve been told by every self-improvement writer and their mothers to get up earlier and eat a protein-rich breakfast and to not break the fast and also kale smoothies.
My view is that it’s largely smoke and mirrors because 80% of the benefits come from 20% of the efforts and the 80/20 here lies in implementing some pattern. If you bother to think about optimal mornings and read productivity guides, you’ll get most things right and it almost doesn’t matter what you do exactly.
If you’re obsessing over whether to get up at 5.38AM or 6.57AM or over should I be doing loving-kindness meditation or should I do Vipassanā meditation or should I take a cold shower with or without a preceding hot shower, then you are missing the point.
Making it an actual habit is the only important thing.
Interestingly, while everyone is stressing out about tweaking minute details of their morning protocol, most high-performing people I know are more concerned with winning the afternoon. The 3PM-dip appears to be biologically encoded in most of us mortals and the gurus didn’t come up with a solution yet.
Chances are, for you too, this is where, following the 80/20 rule, you can make…
