How pissed off you might get when nothing goes as planned during those Monday morning hours, especially when you drive to the office and drop your kids off to school in a rush?
I can completely understand your pain for not waking a bit earlier or for not following morning routines to get everything in pace.
Why We Need Morning Routines?
A sense of direction is needed to lead life in a productive manner. A routine helps to fill in the blank spaces of your goals/dreams by providing you a direction.
What’s your morning routines or rituals you do to improve yourself to be more productive? If you haven’t figured it out, let me help through it.
Advantages Of Having Customizable Moring Routines
What works for you might not work for others and vice-versa. So, it’s important to analyse your goals and values what you have personally.
Doing what you love, paves way to consistency in a dedicated manner.
You will be feeling free to adjust activities based on your preferences, priorities and schedules during unpredictable days.
All you need, is to construct a framework that works for you in spite of any adjustments. I’ll give you the needed ingredients and you’ll be cooking the food for you.
Your Magic Morning Routines
1. Wake Up – at the same Time
Choose a wake-up time in accordance with your schedule. It’s always good to wake up early but make sure you have at least 7-8 hours of sleep.
There are millionaires who wake after 8 am and be more productive. Make a habit of waking up at the same time every day and stop postponing your alarm clock or snoozing it.
2. Pray – surrender by having faith
Don’t grab your phone immediately when you are out of your bed to check out notifications. Pray and express your gratitude for being alive on this day with vitality, freedom, happiness, money and so on.
A simple positive talk sets a good tone for the rest of the day.
3. Affirm – positive self-talks
Speak about your dreams/goals to yourself. A positive self-talk uplifts one’s mindset, motivation and overall attitude. “I’m confident to lead my team”, “I’m so happy to be healthy”, “I’m earning X amount of money”, “I’m wealthy”, “I love myself and my family so much”.
Repetition of certain talks, changes your past patterns of mindset to a new mindset, which opens up a lot of possibilities to change one’s life. Even your casual talks should not be self-sabotaging.
If you underestimate your own progress, then you are voluntarily creating problems in daily life which interferes with your long-standing goals. Beware of what you speak and affirm normally with yourself and with people.
4. Move your body – Exercise or Stretch or Dance
You might adopt a new mindset, but your body follows the old patterns because of the past years of conditioning. This is where most people quit and stop believing in themselves.
In order to gain a new mindset, your body must go through physical movements like yoga, stretches, exercise or sometimes dancing too. Because all these movements are a kind of expressions your body wants to express out.
You can choose a quick jog, a dance style, light workout routine, body weight exercise, etc… This helps in releasing endorphins [feel-good hormones], reduces stress, improves sleep quality, promotes neuroplasticity, increase energy levels, boosts self-esteem and confidence.
A good health with a goal-oriented mindset, brings in huge wealth.
5. Mindfulness – get relaxed
An average person thinks about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Out of those thousands, 95% are the same repetitive thoughts as the day before. What have you attracted with those 95% of repetitive thoughts? The same situations happen again and again as predicted.
Our brain needs a problem to stick on, because its priority is to search for potential threats to provide survival instinct. How long are you going to be in a survival mode with constant pressure and anxiety?
Meditation, posture, breathing technique help you to be mindful and also lets you in a creation mode. Makes you feel calm, promotes a calm and focused mind to be more productive without stress/pressure. You can also opt for soothing music to get you mindful.
Mindfulness completes the mind-body relation and coherence.
6. Manifest – Surrender & Visualize
Our reality is being created twice. One is in our mind and the other in this physical world before us. “What you think you become” is true.
Hence, visualize your dreams as if you have accomplished it beforehand for at least 10 mins a day. Your focused thoughts, beliefs, intentions combined together brings desired outcomes. Also known as – “Law of Attraction”.
Rehearsing a mental picture as living the life you aspired for, aligns all energies to make that mental true.
7. Personal Development – improve mentally
Reading books, listening to podcasts on your drive way, watching a short educational video and journaling out your entire day to get a sense of clarity brings in stability. Improving your awareness makes you an updated person, which in turn makes you a confident person to speak up.
A life-long process of self-improvement, self-discovery, acquiring skills and qualities contributes to a more fulfilling life by providing a purpose to live. If you haven’t found your purpose yet, don’t worry, you will find it, when you go with a flow without any pressure.
Personal development helps you to approach growth and to reach full potential. All you need is to incorporate certain personal development routine to your morning hours.
8. Goal Setting – Implementation
By brainstorming your goals, you can list your tasks according to priority. Maintaining a separate to-do list for work and family, or a combined one for a day helps you to manage time and its completion. That’s like reviewing your goals for up to 5 mins.
Have short-term and long-term goals. Write it down in a journal. Accomplish each goal by planning it to be completed withing weeks, months and years. By succeeding short-term goals, your long-term goals get aligned automatically.
9. Consumption – creates & defines you
Your consumption rate of anything decides who you truly are. The food you eat, the content you watch in the internet, the people you interact with, the self-talks you speak, the time spent, etc… matters and decides the achieving strength and the time taken to achieve.
Be ware of how you spend your valuable time and what you download and install into your brain.
10. Second Brain Building
Consumption of information is happening from everywhere. We learn and acquire a lot new things and tend to forget it in the end. Our brain does the work for having incredible ideas and solving problems but not for storing everything what we have learned, experienced, gained, etc.
It’s better to store this information in a separate digital app and re-visit when you need. Hence the most valuable ideas will be at your fingertips all the time, where you won’t be struggling to remember it.
Your memory gets expanded by having a second brain methodology.
11. Balancing Social Connection – Networking
When checking out notifications on social media, respond and post only when it is really needed. Get the updates and news, plan and coordinate accordingly, engage with your loved ones and community for discussions, forums and collaborative projects.
Building a community where you can rely for valuable support, utilize opportunities, and gain diverse perspective builds a strong network and social skills.
Don’t scroll for infinite times to get entertained. Hence, beware how you spend your time in these apps. This is a needed routine to get listed in your morning routines.
Wrapping Up
You might be a night owl or an early bird, all you need is to increase productivity. A plan to incorporate as a routine to stay above the game in life. All the above-mentioned morning routines will definitely pave way to a new mindset, resulting in a paradigm shift to create a new reality.
Hence, it’s time to change your deep-rooted fundamental beliefs, assumptions, values, attitudes which brings no change. Guaranteed you’ll find changes when following this routine and you can customize it according to your need to bring abundance to your life.
Remember change must not happen on a surface level, it requires ample amounts of time, energy and patience to remove the past patterns of routines/behaviours.
All the best toward your productivity journey.
