If you check your emails first thing in the morning, **you're setting yourself up to react. 
You're not planning your day and prioritizing, you're giving your best hours to someone else's goals, not yours.

Don't check emails in the morning

Want to be more productive? Don't ask how to make something more efficient until after you've asked "Do I need to do this at all?"

Do what is important

<ol>
<li>Manage your moods: If you start the day calm it's easy to get the right things done and focus.</li>
<li>Don't check email in the morning.</li>
<li>Before you try to do it faster, ask whether it should be done at all.</li>
<li>Focus is nothing more than eliminating distractions.</li>
<li>Have a personal system; most productive people have a routine.</li>
<li>Define your goals for the day the night before.</li>
</ol>

Tim Ferriss's tips for productivity

People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive.

17 hours of unproductiveness weekly

Ever feel like you're just not getting enough done? Know how many days a week you're actually productive? About three: People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive (U.S.: 45 hours a week; 16 hours are considered unproductive).

17 hours of unproductiveness weekly

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