If you win the morning, you win the day!
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The Importance of Morning Habits
We have already learned that our thoughts create our actions, our actions create our habits, our habits form our character, our character designs our destiny. Everything is so interconnected and starts with a tiny habit that makes a huge difference. This tiny habit becomes so potent when practiced regularly.
In the previous article “Why your daily habits matter?” we concluded that success is the product of daily habits. Those tiny changes in our daily habits can take us on a different journey.
I am not a morning person! I’ve heard so many people saying this phrase. Watch what you’re saying because you’re identifying yourself with it. It will become part of your identity, of who you are. If you want to change yourself, you have to change what you do daily.
Now, please just pause for a moment and think.
What kind of person you need to be in order to achieve your goals?
For example: if I want to lose weight, what kind of person I need to be? It’s probably someone who eats more whole foods and less sugar, exercises three times per week …If I want to achieve more during the day, I need to be someone who wakes up early, who is intentional and organized.
Whoever you decide to be, the priority should be on becoming that kind of person not the result – the number on the scale or the number of daily tasks. Even though you’re not that person yet, you have to start acting like that person.
Morning is a special time of the day
A new beginning of beautiful day filled with new opportunities, adventures and achievements. Or a new beginning of stressful day filled with agitation, worry and overwhelm. We have a choice in every moment!
How do you start your morning? Jot down all your morning routines.
During my university years, I had a roommate who would wake up 15 minutes before classes start, get dressed, brush her teeth and run to the classroom. Luckily we lived 5 minutes from the university. She was so annoyed with my morning routine 😀 I would wake up 1 hour before to have breakfast, drink my tea and get ready. As far as I can remember I was a morning person. This could be due to my birth time. I came to this world at 8:10 am.
There is one particular habit that all successful people share according to studies. They get up early. Morning people are more productive, happier and heathier then people who stay up late. I believe it’s not only about that early hour but how they start their morning. Tiny changes in our morning routines can have significant results.
What happens if you rush through your morning
After hitting the snooze button, you might stumble to the kitchen to make some coffee or tea, skip breakfast, get dressed and rush yourself out the door. Or you are a person who wakes up early, prepares breakfast and starts scrolling through the phone.
Every morning you rush through these routines, you are collecting stress and you are on the right path to collapse. Starting out by running around and feeling constantly overwhelmed leads to a stressful and unproductive day.
When we start our day by scrolling through emails, messages or social media, we pollute our brain with other people’s request, opinion, bad news which will trigger stress and anxiety. Then we feel overwhelmed with the tasks of the day, and we are working against time.
Our brain gets easily distracted. So right in the morning we prime our brain for distraction. That’s how we fail to prioritise our tasks and become less productive.
If we start our morning on a rocky path, it gets rockier throughout the day. By the end of the day we find ourself exhausted.
My number one morning rule is to leave my phone alone until 9 am.
Please don’t start your morning answering to messages or mails, watching news or tv shows, and scrolling down through social media 
What happens when you have positive morning habits
How you start your morning matters. Creating morning habits that make you feel happy, motivated and enthusiastic to begin a new day is the key for a positive and productive day. A positive morning habit equals a self-care routine. What’s the best way to start the day than giving yourself some extra love. Choose the actions that nurture your body internally and externally. Stay unplugged from the external world for the first hour of the morning.
For example : If you start your morning by setting intention, you decide how you want to show up every day, and what you wish to accomplish. This will help prioritise your daily tasks and make better choices. Or you start by a 15 minute stretching routine which will energise your body and improve mental well-being. If you stretch one hour per week, you won’t notice significant change in your body. But if you do it four times per week for 15 minutes, you will improve your flexibility, open your body, and release stress and tension. You see how a little routine can deliver a positive impact on our daily life.
The energy and mood of the morning reflect your whole day. If you wake up 15 minutes earlier, you won’t need to rush through the morning.
We all face different challenges throughout the day. One tiny obstacle gets in the way and we are out of our direction feeling overwhelmed and stressed. Positive morning habits ground you down, you start a new day with confidence, peace and positive attitude. It is much easier to cope with daily setbacks when we start morning with positive habits. You will perform better at work, stay focused and motivated.
Your morning habits reflect the tone of your entire day. Observe how your morning habits mirror your day. The reflection that they have in every single area of your life. You can already foresee your future.
Morning “Me Time” is a non-negotiable. This is the best gift you can give yourself. It’s the ultimate self-care. This time for yourself is what you lack most.
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