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Why Ending The Day With Positivity Matters

Everybody will have days where it just didn’t go well. When we arrive home, our energy is down, negatives flow a lot easier, and our minds are very fixated on the day’s events. This can also happen with our children. Even though children’s attitude recovery is amazing to see. Getting children into a good habit of ending the day with positivity helps children in the present but also for the future.

With mental health taking on more importance within society. Understanding the mind in more detail and leading from the front will greatly benefit your child.

By taking time to end their day positively is just a small habit that can make a big difference.

The Dangers If The Child Goes To Sleep With Negativity

The danger if a child goes to bed with negativity will inevitably end with nightmares, wetting the bed or restless night sleep. It will also cause a habit to form where they cannot process their day in a positive way leading to negative thoughts and experiences hanging over them.

A study, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that during sleep, the brain reorganises the way negative memories are stored, making these associations harder to suppress in the future.

Suppressing anything is clearly not dealing with the problem. If not treated straightway, this could perceivably become a problem in the childs life further down the line.

How To Always End The Evening With Positivity Helps Children

What An Evening Routine Should Look Like

To protect your childs mental health, making an evening routine for children that’s fun is of major importance. No child let alone an adult wants to do anything boring. So making time to reflect on the day in a fun way will engage your child.

As an adult, I like to write through my daily problems, but I have children who don’t like this way too much. They prefer to act it out.

As a family, we have 3 clear objectives before our children go to bed and they are the following.

Take time to relfect their day and turn it into a postive
Make time for creativity with books and storytelling
Time for movement to shake off the day with dance

By following these simple habits. It makes sure we know our children are going to bed happy and they also know their parents have their back.

How It Transforms Into Adulthood

When an evening routine is a positive one. This creates mental strength for any adult. Building this foundation in children is crucial for this to be a lifelong habit into adulthood. This will elevate stress, anxiety and depression levels. The wellbeing of the children will be transformed as they will not hold on to the weight of negatives in their life.

In my own adult life, I have held onto negatives for weeks and from my own first-hand experience, it creates so much damage in your internal life but also external commitments and relationships.

No one wants this for their children and the solution is simple. Help your child deal with their problems, failures and life-changing events in a positive way. So they will develop this skill to use for themselves into adulthood.

No doubt I will probably be zoom calling my children most evenings to make sure they’re ok when they’ve flown the nest.

Do you think a child going to bed positive is of importance? What’s your bedtime routine strategies? I would love to know.

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What To Expect?

In today’s article, The Important Habit Of Starting Your Day The Right Way. It will be about a discussion of the benefits having a morning routine can have on your mental health. I will discuss how to make a morning routine a winning habit and how it can change your life not only mentally speaking but overall productivity throughout the day.

What Is The Best Way To Start Your Day Off Positively?

This is the question I asked myself as I needed to find a way to jump-start my day.

I researched as many successful people I could find on their morning habits and every one of them had something different. Of course, there were similarities with a high percentage of waking up early and exercising. But they had their own personal touch to their morning routine.

The answer I found from all my research was to design a morning routine that suits your needs for mental stimulation and focus. Alongside this moving your body and feeding your body what it needs to unlock lasting energy. Will allow for best morning success.

Whatever you chose to do to start your day. It has to benefit you mentally and physically as well as helping you propel yourself into your day’s challenges.

If this is achieved you will feel amazing and more importantly feel the benefits throughout your whole day.

The Mental Benefits Of A Morning Routine

The important habit of starting your day the right way comes when your morning routine fits your needs. The mental benefits you will receive is all you need to carry on the morning routine forever.

For me, I felt energised, mentally clear, focussed, happy, more understanding, inspired. As I’m writing this the list could go on and on of how a morning routine benefits my mind.

Research has proven time and time again the importance of routine has on humans mental and physical health that benefits the individual. There is research on why hitting the snooze button isn’t good for us in the long term or picking up your phone straight away can affect our eyes and mental health if we look at negative stimuli first thing.

There is a reason why high performing individuals focus on having a morning routine. It’s because it works. We have all morning where we did all the things we hear we shouldn’t do in the morning and you always feel like crap for the rest of the day. Having a morning routine helps you become a better version of yourself.

Wouldn’t you want to see that best version of you every day?

How The Night Before Has A Big Impact On Your Morning

Before we start our day there is always something in-between that we are not conscious of and that’s of course sleep. When we wake up we need our brain to be ready to help us get up without distraction to start our day. This is the first win or loss of the day. Making sure we get this part right is of importance.

This decision doesn’t come from the moment you wake up. It comes from preparation. It comes from preparing the night before.

Setting out your intention for the day ahead, having a morning plan, goals, to-do list and a schedule. Allows you to sleep with a purpose. A purpose that you want to accomplish and while your asleep your brain will be subconsciously plotting to help you achieve that goal.

Whenever I need to wake up at a certain time of the day I’m excited to experience it. I always wake up with intention without fail unless for one thing.

Sleep Is Important

That’s the amount of sleep I’m having. For you start your morning without fail. Comes from the amount of sleep we get. Going to bed at 1 am and expecting to wake up at 6 am or fresh and ready to go will be battle. Some days you will win and some days you will hit the snooze and roll back over.

A successful morning routine comes from the amount of sleep your mind and body needs. When I was in my teens I needed 8 hours of sleep but now at 31, I need only 6 hours. Finding out how much sleep you need is vital.

Whatever time you want to start your day make sure to plan to go sleep 6 to 8 hours beforehand with an extra hour to wind down in bed. You will thank yourself the next day.

How To Make It A Habit

You have to want to do it
Make it fun and easy to do
Make it reflect your personality
Try out different routines
Have a goal tracker
Praise yourself
Forgive yourself for any mistakes

To form a successful new habit. First, you have to want to make it a habit. You make the first choice in the morning to start your day the right way and the choices that follow I solely down to you to want to do it.

From there you want to make your new morning routine fun and easy to attain.

No one wants to wake up having to do a 3-hour marathon unless your David Goggins. So if you want to change your whole morning routine which is great and go for it if you know you can do it.

But I would recommend is day by day add the habits you want so it can be easier for you to apply.

Also, play around with your morning habits some will work and some won’t. I tried doing my gratitude journal in the morning and it didn’t work for me instead I did it in my evening review.

This is your morning routine. It has to work for you not what others do.

Making The Habit Stick

To make it stick unlock the competitor and winner inside you. How I do this is I only focus internally on my own development and block out any noise from the outside.

I have a goal tracker where I can tick off every day I have completed my morning routine. This helps me focus on doing it but also praising myself for achieving what I have done.

Praising yourself for any little thing will help the habit to stick. What breaks the habit is when we are too hard on ourselves whether that be we woke up late on one day or we forgot to do a certain routine.

WHO CARES! Forgive yourself and do better the next day. What’s done is done, learn from it and put more energy into the area you need to work on.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, The Important Habit Of Starting Your Day The Right Way

My morning routine has transformed my mental health and my overall productivity throughout the day.

Design your own morning routine today!

Make it a habit and build that mental strength in the process.

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Hi, I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.