“I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.” ShouldTwoDreamReadingFoundHoursSleepMorningNovelSittingSpendingRidiculousDesksEmail Author:Brit Marling
“Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.” WritingTryingSometimesHouseBehindsMorningBusyPhonesStudiosEvery MorningEmailPhone CallsFranticLunchtime Author:Daniel Goleman
“If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.” IfsWritingDealsMorningNovelWrittenSafeComputerDistanceScriptsGet UpSchedulesEmailEmergenciesIntroductionBlogsNovel Writing Author:Neil Gaiman
“I do everything via email. Which in turn works as my tickler file and prioritization queue. I start at the top every morning and keep on going until I'm finished. I don't do calls. I don't do meetings.” TurnsMorningMeetingsFinishedEvery MorningEmailFilesQueuesPrioritization Author:Mark Cuban
“As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.” PeopleIfsFirstsLongImportantMorningGoes OnInternetTasksTiredPhonesEveningAfternoonEmailPhone Calls Author:Brian Tracy
“So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.” IfsLongBookDifferentFormDiesReadingStuffMorningSeeingWeekMinutesAmountGet UpGymSchedulesEmbarrassingEmailUrgentTweetKindlesServer Author:Maria Popova
“I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.” WritingI CanPlayMorningBasketballMy FavoriteCoffeeMealsBreakfastApologizingEmailCookiesNoonManuscriptsLattes Author:Jess Walter
“After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.” FirstsWellsMayMorningStudyPlansHeardMy FamilyCoffeeChecksDevicesMultipleGlimpseEmailInstagramIphoneUpstairs Author:Dani Shapiro