????下面的場景你肯定不陌生：你還在辦公室廚房里迷迷瞪瞪地找咖啡，而你的同事卻精神抖擻地跳出來，跟你說早上騎自行車的感覺簡直“酷斃了”。而且，你們倆下周要做的演示文件，她也已經完成了，現(xiàn)在就躺在你的收件箱里（時間顯示是上午7:45發(fā)送），前提是你還能摸索著回到自己的辦公桌。

????很明顯，她確實精力充沛（雖然有些煩人）。但在職場上，“早起的鳥兒”真的要比同僚們勝出一籌嗎？

????答案或許是肯定的。在《哈佛商業(yè)評論》（Harvard Business Review）去年發(fā)表的一份調查報告中，生物學家克里斯托弗?蘭德爾發(fā)現(xiàn)，早晨精力最充沛的人更能明確自己的長期目標，更有把握實現(xiàn)自己的目標。另外，也有研究顯示，這類人在學校的成績普遍更加優(yōu)秀。

????蘭德爾在接受HBR采訪時稱，“夜貓子”們可能更具創(chuàng)造力，“但他們與公司的正常安排不合拍。事關職業(yè)成就，晨型人總能占得先機?！?/p>

????原因如下：

積蓄正面能量

????肖恩?阿克爾認為，在早上完成一些事情，能夠帶來“一連串的成功”。肖恩?阿克爾著有《快樂的優(yōu)勢》（The Happiness Advantage）一書，他自己之前也屬于“夜貓子”型，后來有意識地讓自己養(yǎng)成了早起的習慣。現(xiàn)在，他每天睜開眼第一件事，是寫下讓他心存感激的三件事，然后鍛煉身體，再寫一封簡短的電子郵件，與家人或朋友聯(lián)絡感情。他說自己非常喜歡早上做這些事，并且發(fā)現(xiàn)“如果你心里有所期待，那么從床上爬起來就不是什么難事?！比缓?，“在大腦記錄下一件成功完成的事情之后，很自然地，你會繼續(xù)做下一步，并一直進行下去?！钡绻阍陬^天晚上10點才完成一天中第一件重要的事情，而老板卻要求你參加第二天早上8點的會議，那么很顯然，已經沒有足夠的時間去完成其他事情了。

優(yōu)先保證重點

????根據(jù)理財顧問的建議，發(fā)工資之后，要盡早把錢存到銀行，因為如果拖到月底的話，總會有各種各樣的原因導致人們無法在應急基金中存入500美元。同樣的道理，不要等到下午5點才去鍛煉身體。越來越多的研究顯示，人的意志力與肌肉在功能上很相似。如果過度使用就會出現(xiàn)問題。把一些重要但不緊急的事情放在早上進行，比如鍛煉身體、宗教修行或戰(zhàn)略思考等，人們就可以提前把這些事情做完。否則等到開完無聊的會議，或者在辦公室忍受了一整天自動販賣機的噪音之后，人們早已筋疲力盡，想要做什么事情都力不從心了。

盡量減少干擾

????蘭蒂普?雷西有一份朝八晚五的工作，同時還在經營著一家名為WineDelight.com的在線酒水商店。他表示：“公司位于加利福尼亞，而我在科羅拉多，所以與其他員工最便捷的溝通方式就是通過視頻聊天工具G-Talk。因此，我得始終保持在線，以免有事情需要我處理。這有時候會讓我分心，但在早上工作的效果非常好，因為那時候其他員工都還在睡覺呢?！奔幢闫渌乱捕紝儆谠缙鹦停麄兛隙ㄒ蚕Ｍ眠@段時間專心做自己的事情。畢竟，要讓人家早上6:30參加電話會議，實在是不好意思開口吧？

????You know the type: As you're groping around the office kitchen looking for coffee, your perky colleague bounds in to tell you that her bike ride this morning was "awesome." Plus, she finished the presentation you two have to give next week. It's in your inbox (time-stamped 7:45 a.m.) should you ever make it to your desk.

????Sure, she's energetic (if annoying). But do morning people have a professional advantage over others?

????The answer may be yes. As part of research published last year by Harvard Business Review, biologist Christoph Randler found that people who were most energetic in the mornings were more likely to identify long-range goals for themselves and feel in charge of making things happen. Other research has shown that such people get better grades in school.

????While night owls may be more creative, "they're out of sync with the typical corporate schedule," Randler told HBR. "When it comes to business success, morning people hold the important cards."

????Here's why:

Building momentum

????Accomplishing things in the morning sets off a "cascade of success," says Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, and a "night owl" who "consciously changed my morning habits so I could get up earlier." He now starts his days by writing down three things he's grateful for, exercising, and sending a quick email to reconnect with a family member or friend. He says he enjoys all these activities, and finds that "if you're thinking about things you're looking forward to, that makes it easy to get out of bed." Then, "once your brain records a victory, it's more likely to take the next step and the next step." If your first major victory comes at 10 p.m. but your boss expects you to be at an 8 a.m. meeting, there's just not much time for getting things done.

'Pay yourself first'

????Financial advisors tell people to transfer money to savings as soon as they get paid, because there will always be a reason why you can't put $500 toward your emergency fund at the end of the month. Likewise, there will always be a reason not to exercise at 5 p.m. A growing body of research suggests that will power functions like a muscle. It fails when used too much. By putting important-but-not-urgent activities like exercise, religious practices, or strategic thinking early in the day, you can knock these tasks off your list before your will power is exhausted by boring meetings or the siren song of the office vending machine.

Minimizing distractions

????Randeep Rekhi has an 8 to 5 job and also runs an online wine store called WineDelight.com. "The physical location for the business is in California and I'm in Colorado, so the easiest way to communicate with other employees is via G-Talk, thus I'm always on it in case I'm needed," he says. "This can get distracting at times, but working very early in the morning is great because all the other employees are asleep." Even if your colleagues are all early risers, they likely want to use this time to focus, too -- and may feel sheepish putting a conference call on someone's calendar at 6:30 a.m.