The 10-minute morning check-in
Ten minutes each morning to clear your reminders, act on suggestions, and walk into your meetings prepared.
Before your first meeting, spend ten minutes in Relatable and you'll know exactly who's overdue, who's waiting on you, and who's new enough to still sort.
Why it matters
Without this, your day runs on other people's calendars and your inbox. Relationships slide quietly, and you don't notice a sphere went stale until months later, when it's a bigger job to fix.
This isn't about clearing an inbox. It's about starting the day already knowing who matters today, before the day picks your priorities for you.
How it works
Do this first, before the day's meetings start: coffee in hand, ten minutes, three quick passes. The dashboard, or the app if you're starting from your phone, already has reminders, suggestions, uncategorized contacts, and today's meetings sitting there, so there's no digging required.
How to do it
- Open the dashboard on the web, or land in Whiz if you're on your phone.
- Clear today's reminders: mark what's done, snooze what isn't ready yet.
- Act on one to three suggestions: approve the ones worth a message, ignore the rest, or mark someone as recently spoken to if you already caught up somewhere else.
- Glance at today's meetings and think of one question to ask each person before you sit down with them.
- Skim the top of your uncategorized contacts. The people you've actually been emailing lately float to the top; if someone there matters, add them to a sphere, otherwise move on.
Close the tab. That's the whole thing.
What good looks like
- You close this out in under ten minutes, most mornings.
- Your reminder count trends down over weeks, not up.
- You walk into meetings with one real question for each person, not a blank stare.
- The uncategorized skim stays a glance. You're not trying to clear the whole queue, just catch anyone urgent.
If you fell off
Most people who set this up stop within a month. Mornings get hijacked by real fires, and a stay-in-touch check-in loses every time. That's not a sign the habit failed.
Restart small: open the dashboard once today, clear whatever's overdue, and skip the rest. Add the suggestions back in tomorrow. The habit rebuilds faster than you'd expect once you send that first message.