A regular day for me involves waking up, showering, brewing up some coffee, and then hitting my home office to get some work done.  Even though I’m awake, showered, and drinking my coffee I sometimes don’t feel motivated to work.  I decided to start thinking about what might be the best thing to do to remedy the situation….

I am here to say that I figured out remedy.  The trick to really starting your day out right is to dress for success.  Anytime you are in your home office trying to get work done and start dragging here is a check list of things you can do:

1.  Shower (If you haven’t already then shame on you.)
2. Dress up as if you are going to a job interview, including dress shoes.
3. Do your hair.
4. Shave (If you need one.)
5. Put on some cologne.
6. Clean up your desk, or at least quickly organize things.

If you can work your way down that list then you’ll probably find yourself a lot more productive.  I don’t know why, but I think when we prepare like that we just set our brains into this serious mode and are no longer lazy.