How to Start Your Morning Right: 5 Steps to a More Productive Day

By Mike Schultz, President, RAIN Group
Isn’t it amazing how some days just start off better than others? You wake up feeling refreshed, the kids practically get themselves ready, and when you show up at work, you accomplish a lot within the first hour.
It feels like everything is going your way.
Then there are days when it’s a struggle to get out of bed and get to work. Even your computer fights you by turning on so slowly. When the day starts nothing is going your way. Then it gets worse.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have more of the former and less of the latter? How much more productive would you be?
This can be your reality.
You can control how the day starts.
When you do, you control how the day goes.
A keystone habit of extremely productive people is having a consistent morning schedule to start the day off right. In fact, this is