How Do You Start Your Day?

How does your daily routine start? What are the things you do when you get up? I found myself doing pretty much the same routine every morning lately. There are a few things I can’t start the day without. As a blogger who has a full time job, I try to be as efficient as possible.

My day starts with a breakfast (doh!), nice cup of tea and some bread with Nutella. I eat Nutella every morning. It’s the only thing I can eat in the morning. Yes, I may be crazy.

First thing I do after I power up my computer is check email. Actually I kind of scan through the emails to see what’s been going on while I was a sleep, to see if there’s anything urgent. I don’t reply them yet, I do that later throughout the day.

After that I usually scan my Twitter account for DMs, @mentions and trending topics. Trending topics are pretty cool source for some news by the way.

When I’m done with that, it’s time to check blog stats. I don’t spend too much time on that, just a quick glance to see what kind of traffic there was on my blog. If there’s a spike, that’s a good indicator that I wrote a good blog post and vise versa. Gives me some thinking for the day and how to improve what I do to get more traffic.

I also check Google reader to see what’s been going on on my favorite blogs. In the morning I usually only scan the headlines.

This is pretty much it. All that takes me about 15-20 minutes. And when I’m done checking out all these things, I most likely end up with a few ideas for next blog post and I brainstorm during the day. After that the day starts with going to work and all the usual crap, but I’ll leave that for another post, maybe.

How do you start your day?

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