Hi everyone!
I'm curious about those of you who have a morning routine, and if so, what are the things you do?
Personally, I've never been a morning person, I always rushed from bed to work without doing much in between.. Earlier this year, I started forcing myself into weaking up early, and I'm trying to do something productive before going to work (I work 9 to 5 for a Company).
For my experience during the last few months, the simpler you put it, the easier will be to be consistent. This is what I am trying to do on a daily basis:
Wake up 6:00 am.
I'm still struggling to be consistent the whole week (i do lots of sports in the evening and some mornings I'm just too tired), but so far I've noticed that the days started like this, my mood is enormously better and I face the day and the decisions I take on a better way.
Do any of you have any tips to be more consistent?
I tried different combinations but a couple of things sticks:
Not every morning contains all these steps. Sometimes I can start a day right to journaling while drinking a big glass of water. Sometimes I wake up much later if I need more sleep.
... 18 minutes later my wife came back from the store with two packs of decaf just for me.
Looks like I'm drinking coffee again haha!
I am curious about the third point. How does it affect or what does it do? 🤔
This is for your brain. It creates new neural connections. I pick this practice from Jim Kwik.
[here Jim explain this] https://youtu.be/1sGyNx44Xw4?t=93
I guess that yeah. I have morning routine.
1.Drink plenty of water.
2. Stretch or exercise
3.Meditation
4.Healthy breakfast
5.Practicing gratitude
6.Personal care
Hang from a pull-up bar for 1 minute while completely relaxing my back and spine
Wake up, journal, work.
Journalling is a recent addition, no coffee is a recent reduction.
Do whatever make you feel ready to take on the world, but don't over-complicate it.
Then I go doing stuff.
I go to bed at 10pm usually to have enough sleep. It's important.
I'm speaking more about my routine in general here.
I'm a classic over-worker so usually I have problems sleeping and relaxing because I'm focussing on some problem. Recently I've been taking hour long walks with my wife in the mornings. The first 20 minutes or so are filled with my usual thoughts but after that the dissipate which has been amazing to feel. I've tried mindfulness and other techniques with different levels of success but by far this has been the most rewarding and is a very nice outcome for me from these not-so-nice times 😎 If you have a park or nature of any sort near you and have problems switching off, I'd highly recommend it.
During this confinement I found that the best routing for me is:
The thing that makes the difference for me is to sit down for 15 minutes and review what I had planned for the week and write down my tasks for the day. If I don't have defined tasks I start working on whatever comes to mind, which can be super productive some days, but other days is just a productivity disaster 😅
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