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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.

What To Expect?

In today’s article, what helps productivity in life is simply just starting is an article that will change your life. We all deep down want to be productive and do well. Then the magnitude of the task or the feeling of doing it isn’t quite aligned to get started. We’ve all been there but the simple technique of just starting will change all that.

What Happens If You Don’t Just Start Something

If you don’t start a task that is challenging straight away. Procrastination will start to build up and become a habit every time something challenging comes your way.

For the mind, you will always feel regret alongside a host of other emotions because you didn’t just start the task. Not starting straight away will lead to a build-up of work and a to-do list that will become more overwhelming for your mind to cope with.

How stressful is it when you have to hand in an assignment and you start the night before to complete it? It’s super stressful and you always say to yourself why didn’t you just start this earlier.

The habit of putting things off has to stop because it’s doing damage to your productivity, standards of work and mental wellbeing. The major difference is that when you’re competing in life. The person who gets started first will have a better chance at succeeding than someone who doesn’t. This then can become a compound factor where the choices you make today can affect your tomorrow and future self.

The Benefits Of Just Starting

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Just starting can lead to many benefits within your life.

If you apply just starting, over time you will see the true benefits of this strategy to your productivity and overall level of success in what you do.

How many times do people put off going to the gym or following their passion? From my experience, I hear it a lot. Compare this to someone who doesn’t make excuses or procrastinates enjoy major success. The hardest part is always getting started. But I hear it time and time again that after someone does start they always carry on and are glad they just started it. The unknown can be scary and that’s what can hold people off sometimes. But I’d rather live a life knowing it wasn’t the right thing rather than regretting I didn’t just start.

The Effect Just Starting Has On Productivity

Productivity can be improved just by starting straight away and can drastically improve your output. This leads to life-changing scenarios and mental health will be improved because you will be progressing as a person. What damages mental health is procrastination, regret and not following through.

Getting started straight away also allows you to improve your preparation too. By ticking off all your to-do lists and finishing all your objectives allows more free time to do the things you want with a mentally healthy mind.

There is a unique feeling you get when you just start something to know it’s ahead of schedule and don’t have to think about it again. That’s why just getting started gives you that great feeling of life.

How Can You Apply Just Starting Technique Today

1. Make It Easy

No one wants to start anything difficult, break it down and trick the brain by making it easy to start.

2. Set Alarms

You can have alarms set for when you want to start something. When your planning you always feel good to attack a goal. It’s only when you have to do it, emotions can change. So by setting an alarm, it’s a signal to the brain that you have to do it.

3. Fear Of Loss The Mind

When it comes to the time you have to start but your brain is trying to drag you to procrastination. You envision a future if you don’t do it. Scaring yourself of the future you will have if you don’t start is an effective way to move your mind into action. When humans backs are against the wall they usually act and succeed. Using this fear of loss strategy can work wonders in the short term.

4. Let The Feeling Of Not Doing It Flow

Trying to stop a feeling only allows the feeling to grow. But letting It flow through you and be ok with it helps it not control your future choices. When you do experience the feeling of procrastination just say NO to it and say your why to yourself. This helps create no struggle with your mind but redirects to what you really want to do.

5. Having Your WHY In Front Of You

Whether it’s posted notes of inspiration, your family or your vision board. Knowing what your WHY is can transform you into action. When we fully understand our WHY it becomes a non-negotiable feeling of things that have to get done.

6. Don’t Think, Just Do

When the brain is about to put negative ideas into your mind. Shut it down straight away and let that be the first sign of just starting. This trick allows you to know when it’s time to get to work.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today article, what helps productivity in life is simply just starting.

Just starting is so beneficial to the productivity and the future you vision for yourself. So many people waste their talents because they didn’t just start.

With the tips of how to get started, I have written above. I hope this gives you a clear strategy of how to implement it for yourself. But the choice always comes from within you. Only you can decide when to start. Once you know it’s your choice, you must act on it with everything in your life.

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Hi, I’m Adam