Comments on: Start Monday Right: Decide To Front Load Your Day

By: Dave Navarro

Dave Navarro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:23:58 +0000

Thanks Andrew – your posts at Trizle continue to inspire me. I think I read a few too many beofre writing this one …

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:36:46 +0000

Great stuff, Dave! Using that flow-state side of your brain can really boost productivity because you’re not thinking — just working (ferociously).

By: James Chartrand - Men with Pens

James Chartrand - Men with Pens — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:08:46 +0000

@ Harry – I always listen. I just have trouble applying good advice to my chaotic life… or I disbelieve that it works until I find a way to try it and make it happen.

Then I tell everyone and they think it was my idea

By: Dave Navarro

Dave Navarro — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:06:23 +0000

@Harry -

You’re 100% right. And having a plan makes it easier to say “no” to manufactured urgencies (or at least to say “later!”).

By: Harrison "Monday's Just Another Day" McLeod

Harrison "Monday's Just Another Day" McLeod — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:03:20 +0000

@James: So, you do listen to what I say…

@Dave: I’ve been doing this for years, it started when I worked in the corporate world. Before I went home at night, I’d set up what needed to be done the next day. Now it’s just habit to front load a day, and sometimes a week.

Like you said in your Early Riser program, it helps to empty out your head so you don’t have to worry about forgetting anything the next day.

By: Dave Navarro

Dave Navarro — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:24:31 +0000

Well said. I’m about to head to work, and I already *know* what butt I’m going to kick there before lunch!

By: James Chartrand - Men with Pens

James Chartrand - Men with Pens — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:19:59 +0000

There’s another reason to front-load a day: Your creativity and productivity is at an all-day high. It’s a proven fact that people do better in the early morning with creative work than any other point of the day. Often, too, afternoon slumps just kill you.

So get the work done and enjoy a snooze on your keyboard around two pm when that slump hits.

Another point: If you’re going to front-load effectively, you can’t do it without some sort of schedule in place THE NIGHT BEFORE.

Plan your Monday mornings on Sunday nights. When you get up, you’ll know what you have to do and you don’t have to sit there trying to figure out what to tackle first.

Um, like I’m doing right now.