Morning Pages for a productive day
The Morning Pages technique acts as a mind dump to get rid of the clutter in your brain.
- Every morning, take a pen and 3 blank pages and fill up those free blank pages with words.
- This makes you slow down at the start of the day and clear your mind of all the junk that's floating around in it.
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- Identify your most challenging assignment
- Get through the tough assignment. Start working on the project at the end of the workday. But don't finish.
- Sleep. Let the brain do his thing.
- Wake up and dump your thoughts onto paper.
3 pages of longhand writing, strictly stream-of-conscious, done as soon as one wakes.
They are not meant to be art. Or even writing. They need not be smart, or funny, or particularly deep. It's a form of “brain drain”, a way to expel all that angry, petty stuff that spirals through our subconscious and muddies our days.
People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive.