3 Ways to Feel More Prepared to Start Your Workday and Evade Burnout

"1. Cross off a small (but important) to-do item before bed.

Wouldn’t it be great if your to-do list was a bit shorter in the morning? One way to accomplish this is to complete a task before you go to sleep at night. Nothing compares with knowing that you got a head start on all your responsibilities. Plus, you’ll be less apt to toss and turn. If there’s something you can do quickly and without much effort, do it.

2. Embrace non-tech-focused morning rituals.

When the first thing you do every morning is grab your phone, read your texts and emails, and start working, you give yourself zero time to relax. Rather, you allow tech to worm its way into your brain — and potentially ramp up your stress. A better solution than diving right into the cold water of occupational commitments is to set up a non-tech morning routine. Your routine can be anything you like. Maybe it’s making a hot breakfast. Perhaps it’s exercising or meditating. Just be sure that it doesn’t involve screens, pings, or phone calls. Stress expert Jordan Friedman suggests that you “start the day with something that brings you joy, like expressing gratitude, taking a walk outside or reading an article related to your greatest passion.”

3. Divide your duties into hourly chunks.

A method to make all those responsibilities look less daunting is to structure your activities by hour. This is what Laura Mae Martin does, according to a piece on time management published in The Wall Street Journal. Martin, a Google executive productivity adviser, sees this activity as akin to setting an agenda for a meeting — except your daily agenda is just for you: “If you set an agenda for a meeting, everybody is in the right place mentally, they know exactly what you’re going to talk about, and the meeting starts right away, and you’re on topic,” explains Martin.

You can “chunk” your to-dos the night before or in the morning. Either way, you’ll find it simpler to tackle your list systematically. As a result, you’ll reduce that heavy feeling associated with being overburdened by a looming checklist that seems impossible to finish."

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