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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