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    What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings-and Life
    What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings-and Life
    What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings-and Life
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    What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings-and Life

    Written by Laura Vanderkam

    Narrated by Laura Vanderkam

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze-often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. By the time the workday wraps up, we're so exhausted and defeated that any motivation to accomplish something in the evening has vanished.

    But according to time management expert Laura Vanderkam, mornings hold the key to taking control of our schedules. If we use them wisely, we can build habits that will allow us to lead happier, more productive lives.

    Drawing on real-life anecdotes and scientific research that shows why the early hours of the day are so important, Vanderkam reveals how successful people use mornings to help them accomplish things that are often impossible to take care of later in the day. While many of us are still in bed, these folks are scoring daily victories to improve their health, careers, and personal lives without sacrificing their sanity. For instance, former PepsiCo chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund would rise at 5:00 a.m., run four miles, pray, and eat breakfast with his family before heading to work to run a Fortune 500 company.

    What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast is a fun, practical guide that will inspire you to rethink your morning routine and jump-start your life before the day has even begun.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateJul 9, 2012
    ISBN9781469001234
    What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings-and Life
    Author

    Laura Vanderkam

    Laura Vanderkam is a contributing editor at Reader's Digest and is the coauthor of Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds. She lives with her husband in New York City.

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    Readers find this title to be a good look at what can be done with the extra time in our lives. It provides good information and reaffirms the potential for productivity. However, some readers find it boring and irrelevant.

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    • 1/5
      Boring and irrelevant. Review is requiring 10 words.

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    • 1/5
      Waste of time. No actual tips on how to accomplish the goal
    • 4/5
      A good look at what we can do with all the hours in the day. With the onset of social media, I find a lot of my hours are wasted during the weak which I could be doing a bit more productive things. This audio just reaffirms what we could be doing with the extra time in our lives.
    • 3/5
      The reader was monotone. The book was ok. Good information