Love Life with Matthew Hussey - My #1 Tip to Crush Your To-Do List

Episode Date: January 25, 2016

Would you like to get more done in a day?  How would it feel to accomplish all of your biggest goals before everyone else has had a chance to down their morning coffee?  I’ve got a simple secret to smashing through distractions, making the most of your energy, avoiding “decision fatigue,” and earning yourself some much-deserved downtime.  I tell you how in today’s LOVE Life…

this is love life with Matthew Hussey I'm glad you're here now if you're new to the show don't be fooled by the name love life yes we talk all about love and relationships but we also go deeper into every other area to give you advice to explode your career get the most out of all of your relationships, create amazing opportunities in your life, and so much more. If you've been following me for a while, or if you're new and you like what you hear today, please go to iTunes and give this show a five-star review and leave a comment. It'll help more women like you find and enjoy the show. Today, I want to talk about waking up early. How early do you get up? Are you, do you consider yourself to be a nocturnal person? Do you consider yourself

to be an early bird? I want to make a case today that waking up early is the best way to go. So let me give you three great reasons to get up early in the morning. The first is that in the morning when you wake up, you don't have nearly the same level of distraction as you do the rest of the day. When you're in the middle of the day and everyone is making phone calls, everyone is sending emails. It's that time of day where everyone is going crazy with action. You're then bombarded with everyone else's wants and demands, what everyone else wants from you. Now, there are always discrepancies between what you should be doing and what everyone else wants you to be doing. The morning I love because it's a time when no one else is around distracting you and you get to get back to the things that are actually important to your life and not just urgent to

everyone else's. The second thing is that for me, 5am means that when I actually start working, let's say it's 5.30 or 5.45, I can then crank out three hours before I get to nine o'clock. By the time I get to nine o'clock, that's when everyone else is starting their normal day. I look at it this way. We all have a finite amount of energy. And when that is up, it gets much harder to be productive. There's even a concept called decision fatigue. Once you've made a certain amount of decisions in a day, once you've done a certain amount of things, your ability to assess situations gets worse because you've used up that mental capacity. So the point is, once I've done those three hours in the morning, by the time I get to nine o'clock,

I have the confidence of someone who's already completed half their day. Reason number three, it gives you flexible time. And what I mean by this is buffer time that allows you to screw up before it starts making a big difference to your day. So that's three big reasons to get up early. It avoids distraction time, it builds confidence for the rest of the day, and it gives you flexible buffer time to screw up. Take care, my friends. I will see you very soon. Thank you for listening to Love Life. I'll be back soon with another show packed with advice you can use right away. To make sure you don't miss a thing, go right now and click the subscribe button in iTunes and I'll deliver you a fresh new episode very soon. Talk to you soon.