How To Set Up The Perfect Morning Routine

What is the one thing you can do to improve your life significantly? You should begin by starting your day off with the perfect morning routine. The internet is awash with posts from celebrities, sports stars etc. telling us about how their morning routine has made the difference for them. Why then is having a morning routine so important, well to put it simply, it works!

Perfect Your Morning Routine

A morning routine puts intentionality in your day. It gives your morning form, design, and function. Imagine yourself traveling through each step, calm, cool, and collected. You know exactly what’s needed of you and when. There are no surprises to leave you scrambling. Nor are you likely to forget what’s important.

If it seems intimidating to form a routine to do all these things, take heart. Really, there are only five steps you need to worry about to make your day come off without a hitch.

It's all about getting that Perfect Morning Routine

1. Understand What It’s All About

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” Zig Ziglar

Embarking on a new routine is hard work and that is why most people give up. You have to work hard to build this routine into something which will be habitual. It’s easy to go back to the old ways you’ve always done things, especially if you feel tired or discouraged.

This is why your first step involves understanding your purpose. Know why you’re striving to have a better morning, and speak these words out loud every morning when you first get up to remind yourself of them. Are you looking for higher productivity? A calmer day? More confidence? You’ll need to figure it out if you don’t know before beginning.

2. Implement Your Routine in Baby Steps

You can’t change around your entire sleep schedule or make profound changes about your mornings all at once without burning out quickly. It’s just not possible as we are not superhumans all the time.

So once you understand what you want to achieve make a plan. As part of making this plan create a schedule. For example, if you normally get up at 9:00am but want to get up at 7:00, you’ll want to make small changes that work toward your goal. So for the first week, you might get up at 8:45 and the week after 8:30, etc.

3. Commit to Consistency

You’re not going to succeed in building new habits if you don’t do the same thing repeatedly. Realize you can’t do this in half measures. Commit to doing this routine every single day.

You can view this as ‘stickability’. This is a critical step in adopting the perfect morning routine, it needs to be habitual. You have to be able to adhere to your target/goal or else you will always find a way to not do it and give up.

4. Work Out an Evening Routine

Your morning will go better if you combine it with an evening routine. This could simply be to go to bed at a regular time or maybe spend ten minutes before you sleep reading a book etc.

You can also use evenings to do prep work for the next day, such as laying out your clothes.

5. Create Your Routine

The key to making your routine is to address all of your needs. These fall into four main categories:

•             Physical : including exercise, healthy diet, regular check ups etc.

•             Spiritual : could include meditation or prayer

•             Mental : includes learning and puzzle solving activities

•             Emotional : including self care, mindfulness, affirmations etc.

The goal is to bring yourself into a harmonious balance every day. Personally, I use a journal to help both plan and track how my morning routine helps maintain my ‘balance’. Here's a link for one I use: Daily Journal

A Good Day starts with a Good Morning

Conclusion

“Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” Jim Rohn

Having a good, consistent and repeatable morning routine really is the best way to start your day. Together these five steps will help you create that perfect morning routine. Now you’re ready to start your day out right and take on the world!

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