Start off your morning by doing that day’s most important task. And do this every single day – no exceptions.
It’s the WIN principle. What’s Important Now.
I pulled that acronym from retired college football coach Bud Foster. Bud was the Defensive Coordinator for Virginia Tech’s football program for decades. He had his players walk around carrying a beat up old lunch pail with the WIN moniker painted on it.
Bud coached in the 2000 national championship game against legendary Bobby Bowden’s Florida State program. The third quarter of that game ended with Virginia Tech up one point on vaunted Florida State. That’s how close Bud and his philosophy came to the pinnacle of the sport—though Florida State came back to win in the final quarter.
The power of this principle is in consistency.
If you do the most important thing you have to do first thing every morning, every day – that productivity will compound. Over time all those little things will add up to big things.
Darren Hardy spelled out how this works in his book The Compound Effect. It’s a timeless secret of success in any endeavor.
For years I believed the secret of this formula lie in doing your most important task first thing in the morning. But recently I’ve realized that’s not it.
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