Your morning sets the tone for your day.

12 things you should do daily before 8 am:

1. Plan the night before

To create a better morning, you need to start the evening before:
• Look at your schedule
• Set out your clothes
• Pack your bag

This little preparation can take the morning from rushed to relaxed.

2. Don’t touch your phone

You should not touch your phone for two hours after waking up.

This starts with leaving it in the other room the night before. Bringing your phone to bed disrupts your wind-down and keeps you up later.

3. Get rid of the snooze

Move your alarm away from your bed so you have to get up to turn it off.

This will help you stop hitting the snooze, which destroys your mood and morning routine.

4. Let there be light

Light signals it’s daytime and helps you naturally wake up.

Get a sunrise alarm and get outside immediately (see number 8).

Microsoft Excel is used by the majority of businesses but only 6% of people consider themselves an expert.

8 reasons you should become an expert at Excel:

1. Increases your income
Research shows it can increase your salary by 12.5%

I’ve personally used it to get raises and promotions, with raises up to 25%

2. It’s a marketable skill on the job market

Being an expert is extremely valuable and can be marketed on your resume.

But Excel projects can also become accomplishments, too.

Mine include:
• creating financial models
• tracking & management of a profit-sharing agreement.

3. Increases your efficiency

The ability to clean, sort, or organize data sets allows Excel experts to get projects done in a fraction of the time it would take to do manually.

This allows you to focus on data analysis and things that actually provide value.

4. Increases your quality of work

Because you can manipulate data, error checking is easy to build into a process.

This assures the data you’re sharing is more accurate than otherwise possible.