It's reasonable as advice, but as an empirical answer to what successful people do with the first hour of their work day, I'd be interested in some less-anecdotal data. Are these five really representative of what successful people do with the first hour of their work day? I suspect that they aren't, and that if you did a proper survey you would find more boring results, e.g. a lot of successful people spending their first hour at work checking and responding to email, in meetings, etc.