How Adopting this 1 Uncommon Habit will Guarantee Your Rise to the Top

Each morning before work I take 30 minutes to read whatever non-fiction related book I deem useful to my professional development. It needn’t necessarily be subject specific to my role — it can be about anything I surmise may begin to cross pollinate with other ideas acting as the genesis to new thoughts.

The key here is the routine. I do it every single work day without fail. It has become so ingrained within my daily routine that it feels unnatural if there is any reason that I cannot. It forms the first task on my calendar and reminds me to stick with it irrespective of competing demands.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes plans change, but very rarely do I even consider dropping it because I have ascribed such importance to it. When we deem things to be important one of two things can happen:

1. We can falsely place them on a pedestal and disingenuously pretend to those watching that what we are doing matters while allowing our actions to tell a complete different story. We tell people we are focused but we are willing to drop it at the first opportunity to do something else.
2. We can become oblivious to the inquisitions of others which distract us from the things that matter and do it irrespective of questioning. We reject alternative overtures and march…