Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

Get into a routine. Think of your dream daily routine, and write it down in as much detail as you can. Then, create one small and easy daily habit\s that you could do which’ll progress you towards that routine(for example: waking up at 8:15 instead of 8:20). Commit to doing it the entire week.

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“Cook says that the first thing he does when he wakes up is check his iPhone, which sits atop is nightstand in silent mode. His typical wakeup time is before 5 a.m. everyday, leading to closing his Apple Watch stand ring impressively early everyday.

[…]

"I get up very early and I quickly go to the Mac and begin to go through the emails that have come in for the last several hours.

A lot of what l'm reading are from customers that are telling me how they're using our products and what it's doing for them.

So I get notes both that are positive and some that are not so positive because people feel free to reach out and voice their opinion.

And I think this is great because it keeps my hand on the pulse of the company.

I have relatively thick skin and so I try to internalize it and ask myself, 'Well, is that accurate or not?,' and not just quickly put up a defensive shield and say why what we've done is right.

[…]

During his workout, which he records on his Apple Watch, classic rock pounds through his AirPods. At the office, he switches to his MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac.

On the road, he travels with his iPad Pro. "Every day," he says, "every product."

[…]

Until recently, Cook read long emails. Now he relies on Apple Intelligence summaries.

‘If I can save time here and there,’ he says, ‘it adds up to something significant across a day, a week, a month.’

Even before Apple Intelligence was released, it changed his productivity and daily habits. ‘It's changed my life,’ he says. ‘It really has.’“

!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking question:

-After looking at Tim Cook’s morning routine, where do you think you will be if you’ll copy it into your life?

Critical-thinking questions:

-Do you think that like Tim Cook, using you’re screens right when waking up would be good for you? Why or why not?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

When do you prefer to work\study the most?

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