Morning Routine: The Key to a Productive Day

 

1) Introduction

Do you ever feel like your mornings are chaotic and unproductive? It's easy to hit the snooze button and rush through your morning routine, but starting your day off on the wrong foot can impact your productivity and mindset for the rest of the day. That's where building a morning routine comes in. A morning routine sets the tone for the rest of the day. When you start your day with making a good choice, you are more likely to make choices afterwards. If you don’t believe me, think about the last time you thought: "If I'm going to slack off, I might as well do it well.". In this post, I will guide you to when to get up, how you can resist the snooze button and to start building your morning routine.

2) When to get up?

There are two important rules about the amount of sleep you need where the second one is less known. When you have too few sleep, you will be sleep deprived but also when you have too much sleep. A good method to know how much sleep you need is by setting you alarm clock each three days 15 minutes earlier until you feel like you have mild sleep deprivation. Then, you can go back to the previous time you woke up and that is how much sleep you need.

3) How to resist that snooze button

The snooze button can be very attractive when waking up to a loud alarm sound. However, keep in mind this quote by Phyllis George when deciding between snoozing and getting up: “Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.” Here are a few tips to resist yourself from hitting that snooze button. Keep in mind that it takes time and persistence to don’t even think about hitting the snooze button.

1. Consistent sleep schedule: By going to sleep and waking at the same time every day, you will feel less grumpy and tired in the morning so you are less likely to snooze

2. Reason to get up: If you have a reason to get up, you will find it more important to get up and thus you are less likely to snooze.

3. Place your alarm clock accross the room: If you can’t reach your alarm clock from your bed, you will have to get up to snooze and be less likely to go back in your bed.

4. Mornify: Mornify is an app that gradually wakes you up instead of one loud alarm sound. You will therefore wake up more peacefully and are less likely to snooze. Also, Mornify permits you to choose a song to wake up to so mornings feel less bad.

5. Meditate in bed: What I found most helpfull into getting up is by medidating for 5 minutes in my bed. It takes little effort to do because you stay in your bed and will make your mind a lot clearer. More information about how to exactly do this will be given in my next blog post about the book Miracle Morning.

3) Build your morning routine

Building your morning routine is crucial to set a positive tone for the day. Don’t start too ambitious, start with finding a habit that takes 5 minutes and practice it each morning. You can start by medidating in your bed or by exercising the first thing you do in the morning. If there's one thing that's most important in the morning, it's getting your heart rate up. In my next post about the book Miracle Morning, you will find a more practical guide on how to build this.

4) Conclusion

The most important thing I want you to remember is that starting your morning routine with exercise, even just for a few minutes, is crucial for getting your heart rate up and setting a positive tone for the rest of the day. To achieve this, it's important to resist the snooze button by maintaining a consistent sleep schedule, having a reason to get up, placing your alarm clock across the room, using apps like Mornify, and meditating in bed. Starting with a small habit and gradually building it up is the key to building an effective morning routine. In the next post about the book Miracle Morning, a practical guide to building a morning routine will be provided.

5) Your next steps

1. Find your sleep time: Set your alarm clock 15 minutes earlier for next morning and apply the technique of seeting it each 3 days 15 minutes earlier until you feel like you have mild sleep deprivation. Then, you can go back to the previous time you woke up and that is how much sleep you need.

2. Mornify: Install the app Mornify to use as your alarm clock. (10 seconds)

3. Miracle Morning: Read my post about the book Miracle morning which you can find in the top right corner under Archive. (3 minutes)

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