Your morning✌
Early bird | Ritual | Sport
Last week, I suggested that you stop pleasing, try helping and start serving with love. This week, and for the next few weeks, I will share a couple of tools, starting today by thinking of your morning ritual.
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So, morning rituals….
As we are returning from the summer months and getting started in this last stretch to the end of 2022, I wanted to focus on routine and rituals, morning particularly, but it cannot really go without evenings.
About 10 years ago, I badly injured my knee tearing my right ACL. Painful! To recover I had a lot of physio to do. But with a busy work schedule, it was difficult to find the time. The only option was to set my physio sessions in the morning.
I still recall the first time I walked into the gym “very early” in the morning to realize that there was life before 7 am with a packed gym in front of me! “Wow! Really? People are getting that early here?!”
It soon dawned on me that it was probably the best time to go to the gym! There is physiological evidence that morning exercise is best, as it wakes you up and puts your body in active motion.
But I also realized that mornings are moments of my day when I am in control. How many times do you promise yourself to do something in the evening and it doesn’t happen as an emergency request lands on your desk, a fire drill with a client, a surprise call from a friend, or maybe the evening of the children that did not go as planned?
I am not a morning person by design, but from then on and to this day, I have decided to change my morning routine. It could be going to the gym, running, walking, or doing personal projects. It is a time that set the tone of the day. That said, I am not part of the infamous “5 am club”. Have you ever tried it?
When I keep this hygiene and cadence, I realize I am more productive, pack more in my day, and give more to others.
Mornings are sometimes difficult, but I try not to think about it and just get on with it. The long-term rewards outweigh the immediate pain!
Also, I found that morning routines are intimately related to evening ones! Have you prepped everything for the morning? Do you know what you want to achieve the next day? What will you do? etc. Properly preparing the next day and taking the time to unwind in the evening have a direct correlation to how mornings go.
So, start the day in the best possible way by rethinking your morning and evening routines!
What are your morning hacks? I would love to hear what your morning hacks are and maybe build some together.
Question:
How can you build a more empowering and constructive morning ritual?