While it may feel cool to always go-with-the-flow, and see where life takes you, it's a surefire way to end up nowhere fast, or somewhere on someone else's schedule. Take

a moment to sit down and write out your plan for the day, week or month ahead to set yourself up for success. Go through your checklist of things you'd

like to accomplish on a nightly basis, and sleep easier knowing you've checked-off the necessities, like exercise, being creative, etc.

What if you designed your life to allow for sleep until 10am? Well, Laura Vanerkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, says that 90%

of the people she interviewed reported a wakeup time of 6am or earlier. How do they spend that morning time? Reading, jogging, or getting into their work, pre-email-check. What are

you waiting for? Get to bed earlier, rise earlier, and reap the rewards of top-notch, worm-getting CEOs.

So you've gotten up earlier, and have a few ideas of what to do with the "extra" time. Think about things you'll want to get done during the day: work,

eating meals, working out, getting enough rest. It makes sense to put exercise first, and have it done for the day as soon as it starts so you can use

the rest of your time to tackle anything and everything else!

First thing in the morning, it would be too easy to get started on answering emails and seeing what people want from you. How about setting your agenda at the

forefront, and getting the difficult, but important things done, first thing? You can rest assured that this'll be easier if you're the first one in the office.

Would you like to be a published author someday? Or a clothing designer? How about a pastry chef? No time? BS! When you get up early, have worked out and

tackled high priority things in solitude, another fish to fry includes taking some time, any time, to devote to something you're passionate about outside of work or your health maintenance.

You can kill two birds with one stone and engage in active meditation while exercising, focusing on your breath instead of top-40 hits, or while getting creative. The most important

factor is to calm your mind, and focus on something natural, and redundant, to relax into a flow state and let your self-concept flow into something greater.