一日之计在于晨：如何高效利用清晨时光

领导力内幕网络是美国的一个在线社区，美国商界最睿智和最有影响力的一些人物会在这里及时回答与职业和领导力有关的问题。今天为大家分享的是Udemy公司CEO丹尼斯•杨在“你每天早上上班前都做些什么？”这一问题下的回答。

每个人的生活习惯都是不尽相同的，没有一种“早间流程”能够适合所有人。如果你想让早上的时光过得更有效率，最重要的是要认识自己的模式，并且相应地管理自己的时间。

我发现我的思维在早上是最敏锐的。所以我每天一起床，便会尽可能地利用这段时间多思考、多计划、多解决问题。另外我也会利用早上的时间制定全天的日程表，设置今天要做的优先事务。如果我不用早上的时间为全天做好规划，那么这一天可能会过得一团糟。如果某件事我不在我当天的日程表上，那我今天可能就不会去做它。

以这种方式开启新的一天，使我能够为任何可能遇到的问题做好准备，进而行有余力地解决各种复杂和长期的挑战。一旦我到了办公室，大量程序性的邮件、突发性的谈话以及各种被动应付的事务就会纷至沓来，干扰我的创造性思考，吞噬掉我的大量时间。在疲于应付日程性、突发性事务的同时，还有很多会议等着我去开。这样到了一天结束的时候，我基本上已经累得没有进行深入思考的精力了。

在我规划完一天的重点工作之后，我喜欢看看新闻。一般我只是看看标题，最多扫几眼感兴趣的文章。我既不会过于关心任何一则报道，也不会“两耳不闻窗外事”。如果有些文章我想稍后做深入阅读，我就会设置一个书签。另外我也需要关注商业和科技方面的新闻，所以我也会订阅这些方面的时事通讯。

我的“早间流程”之所以安排得这样严谨，是因为我不仅仅要照顾好自己的需求，还得抽时间给我的两个女儿做早饭，然后送她们上学。这迫使我只能遵守一套固定的日程。你可不想早上醒来遇到的第一件事就是孩子们冲你大喊：“再不出门我们上学就要迟到了！”

把孩子送到学校后，我还会试图将开车上班的这段时间变得更有效率些。我一般开车时会听Audible.com（目前我正在听Audible的《第二次机械时代》）或Udemy的公开课（如亚当•格兰特关于创意开发的课程，或是丹•拉德关于寻找新闻真相的课程等 ）。我开车时一般不喜欢接电话，因为我发现接电话太容易让人分心。

早上是我用来进行深入思考的宝贵时间，因为这时我的大脑最为清明，让人分心的干扰和杂务也最少。不管是为当天要发生的某件事情做准备，还是思考如何解决一个迫在眉睫的棘手挑战，总之，用“脑力风暴”开启新的一天的感觉是很好的。（财富中文网）

译者：朴成奎

The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question, “What's your morning routine before going to work?” is written by Dennis Yang, CEO of Udemy.

We're all wired a little differently, so no morning routine is going to work for everyone. If you want to be effective in the morning, the most important thing is to recognize your patterns and manage your time accordingly.

I find my mental clarity is sharpest the first thing in the morning. I capitalize on that to do as much thinking, planning, and problem solving as I can soon after I wake up. Without fail, I'll make my to-do list for the day and set my priorities. If I don't use my early morning to get a handle on how I'll spend the rest of the day, things can go quickly off the rails. If something isn't on my daily list, it's probably not going to get done.

Starting the day in this way helps me prepare for whatever awaits and is the keystone of my approach to tackling complex, long-term challenges. Once I'm in the office, it's far too easy to become engulfed in processing email, having someone grab me for a "quick chat," and other reactive tasks that invariably come up and interfere with creative thinking. As soon as I’m responding to pings, I’m playing defense. Then there are meetings, and by the end of the day, I’ll be simply too fatigued to engage in deep thinking.

After I've sketched out what I want to accomplish that day, I like to catch up on the news. I'll look at headlines and scan articles of interest, but I try not to get too involved in any one story or I'll never extricate myself. I bookmark anything I want to come back and read more closely later. I also need to stay on top of business and technology news, so I subscribe to newsletters focused on these topics.

I have to be fairly regimented about my morning routine, because I’m not just accommodating my own needs. I'm also busy making breakfast and lunch for my two daughters and taking them to school. This forces me to stick to a regular schedule. You do not want kids yelling at you the first thing in the morning about how they're going to be late if you don't leave right then.

With the kids taken care of, I try to use my drive from Belmont to San Francisco productively. I often listen to Audible.com (I’m currently working through "The Second Machine Age”) or Udemy courses (such as Adam Grant's new course on developing original ideas and Dan Rather's on finding the truth in news) as I navigate traffic. I'm less inclined to take calls from the car, because I find them too distracting.

Morning is my precious time to think clearly. It's when my head is least cluttered and, just as importantly, I can usually count on not being interrupted or distracted. Whether I'm prepping for something happening that day or ruminating on a complex, ongoing challenge, it feels good to start the day by exercising my brain.