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Tony Schwartz of the Harvard Business Review Writes:

Do the hardest work first.

We all move instinctively toward pleasure and away from pain. Most great performers, Ericsson and others have found, delay gratification and take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That’s when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.

My comments:

Now many of us just don’t have the bandwith in the morning to train. So let’s focus on how to make the most of your available training time.

What’s The First Thing You Do?

As noted above, we tend to put off the things we least like to do- everywhere in our lives.

My suggestion is simple and even obvious- do the thing you like best to practice at the very end of your training session. You will most likely end the session on a positive note because you were doing that which you love AND get more out of the rest of your practice because you did the hard thing(s) when you were most physically and mentally fresh.

Then, why not apply this to everything you do?

When you get to work, write that report or make those phone calls you’ve been putting off your first task of the day.

You get the point- in completing the task you least wanted to to do, the rest of your day takes on a much more positive tone.

Hey- I think I’ll take my own advice today!

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