The document provides 5 tips for starting your morning work day off right: 1) Don't check email for the first hour to avoid distractions and set boundaries for coworkers. 2) Spend 10 minutes being grateful for what you have each day. 3) Complete difficult or time-consuming tasks first before moving to easier work. 4) Reflect on whether your work is fulfilling; consider changes if not. 5) Develop relationships and maintain regular contact with colleagues, mentors, and others for future support.

1. Trade Tips:
Start Your Morning
Off Right
By Nicole Hayes

2. How do you start
your work day?
A caffeine jolt?
A big breakfast ?

3. While these things may
help, we're here to share
additional ways to jumpstart
your morning.
In a Fast Company article,
Kevin Purdy shares
the following five tips:

4. 1. Don’t check email for the first hour
“Reading e-mails at home
never feels good or
productive,” Tumblr founder
David Karp says. “If
something urgently needs my
attention, someone will call or
text me.”

5. 1. Don’t check email for the first hour
Train coworkers to not
expect instantaneous
responses to anything
they send in your off-
hours.

6. 1. Don’t check email for the first hour
Note: Use your judgment.
Do what is standard for
your client or company.

7. 2. Gain awareness, be grateful
Give thanks for your day and the
new possibilities that await you.
Spend at least 10 minutes
envisioning everything for
which you are grateful.

8. 3. Do the heavy tasks first
Get the heavy stuff behind you
and cruise to the easier tasks
during the rest of your day.

9. 3. Do the heavy tasks first
Do whatever
research is
needed so
completing the
task will be a
snap.

10. 4. Are you doing what you want?
Feeling unfulfilled at work
shouldn’t be something you
realize months or years too
late.

11. 4. Are you doing what you want?
Ask yourself:
If today were the last day of my
life, would I want to do what I
am about to do today?

12. 4. Are you doing what you want?
If the answer has been NO too
many days in a row, it may be
time to change something.

13. 5. Develop your own “customer service”
• Keep in touch
with old contacts
• Check in with
coworkers
• Ask questions
of mentors

14. 5. Develop your own “customer service”
As you maintain regular
engagement with people, you’ll
likely have a more reliable
roster of helpers when the time
comes.

16. This presentation was adapted from our Voice Matters Blog.
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