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Every work day starts from its beginning. The way be start our day is very important. Frequently, the very first activities of the day will affect the efficiency of the whole day ahead. It is mostly related to psychological factors. If we start our day successfully, then it will give a positive charge for the rest of the day. But if the start of the day is a failure, then it will have a negative influence on our following activities.

Good work day is a day when we know exactly what we are doing, what is waiting us ahead and in which order we carry out different tasks. It is wise to plan your day on the previous day. It is even better if we play through the next day in our mind on previous evening or in the morning before starting with our work. If we have visualised the upcoming tasks then we can quickly get on to our activities and we avoid wasting time in the morning and thinking what and how we have to do today.

Our work efficiency is not the same on different parts of the day. Although it does not apply for everyone, but still a big number of people are most productive in the morning. Usually we are fresher in the morning than at the end of our work day. If this is true for you, then you should not waste your time in the morning. It is also bad to use your most efficient time of the day on routine or repetitive tasks or activities, which do not require much effort or creativity. It is not sensible to use that time for compiling standard writing invoices, writing a routing monthly report or filing documents. You benefit more is you use your best working time for more sophisticated tasks like doing different analyzes, writing articles, brainstorming etc.

Still it is not a good idea to choose the very first task of the day a long-lasting and complicated work. It is important to get a strong positive emotional charge at the begging of the work day and to get in to a good working rhythm. Therefore is wise to start your day with some small tasks, which you can finish in a couple of minutes. These tasks are like a warm up for more difficult challenges.

One possibility to get a good start for your day is to send out e-mails to the people you want to contact. If it is in your mind what do you want to write them, then you can compile a number of e-mails during a short period of time. I mean sending out e-mails and not reading the incoming messages, which can be a relatively time consuming process if you receive a lot of mail. Early morning hours may not be the best time for reading and answering incoming mail as if you have checked your mail at the end of the previous work day, which is a good idea, then you may have not so many unread messages at the start of your work time. If this is a case, then it is better to deal with incoming mail a bit later as then you will have more incoming messages and you can process more e-mails during one block of time. Paying your bills, asking for price offers, making some database queries of searching some simple information in the internet are also good choices for starting your day.

In that way you can finish five, seven or even ten small tasks during the first 30 minutes of your work day. From the emotional point of view it is very important that we get a number of tasks completed at the beginning of the day as the more tasks we have accomplished the better we feel ourselves. Every task we manage to finish, gives us a positive charge that we have again succeeded with one thing.

Now you are ready for the most demanding challenges of the day. Now you are warmed up and fully in your working mood and have received plenty of positive emotions. You know exactly what you have to do now as you have planned it yesterday. Now get on to new tasks right away. Do not make pauses or waste time as it is important to maintain a stable working pace. In that way you can achieve the most demanding tasks successfully and efficiently.

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