Been reading a fantastic book recommended to me by a friend called “Your Brain at Work” by David Rock (http://www.your-brain-at-work.com/). There’s a section of the book that talks about emotions, the limbic system and the idea of “towards” and “away” (fight or flight, basically). I’m realizing that the habits I don’t like tend to have to me going into “away” modes and going “towards” things that are not aligned with my actual goals.
So right now I’m just in observing: what makes me feel good and moving towards things? what makes me feel bad and moves me away from them? How can I take what I learn from each of these situations and, you know, switch ‘em around so that I move away from the things that are counterproductive and towards the things that I want to do? 3 weeks ago
I have no idea what I want my morning routine to be. I find it hard to stick to anything on a regular basis, especially in the AM hours. However, I know enough to know that I’m usually too tired to accomplish much when I get home from work so if I want things to get done, maybe the best option is before work.
Things I would definitely like to incorporate:
Exercise 30 minutes at least 2x a week (eventually would like this to be every day)
Shower and use my Clinque moisturizer on my face
Get dressed and ready for work (Total shower and ready time: 30 mintues)
Maybe:
Hobby for 30 minutes (crochet, knitting or cooking)
30 minutes of house blessing (Flylady style)
Puppy cuddling (he’s most cuddly in the AM, could possibly be done with knitting or crocheting) 4 months ago
1) Wake up & shower
2) Mouthwash
3) Moisturise face & body
4) Put phone on charge
5) Do make up quickly!
6) Dry hair & do it
7) Get dressed
8) Put jewellery on
9) Take vitamin & allergy tablets
10) Pick up bag, phone, water bottle and GO!
NOW STICK TO IT MAISIE! :) 4 months ago
Seriously need to work on this goal… I need to find ways to make this a habit! Working on my other goal of waking up earlier certainly goes hand in hand with this. I think I need an extra 15 minutes in the morning to make this work. 5 months ago
There is a Croatian saying, that you’ll know the day by the morning (my terrible translation – “Po jutru se dan poznaje”).
Some of the goals on my list depend on how early will I wake up. Now I waking up at 8 (huge improvement), but the goal is 6.30.
The routine is (and I’ve done it today, just I have to wake up earlier and do some things faster)
6.30 get out of the bed & and make it immidiately
teeth, face, hair
clean up the desk in my bedroom
have a healthy breakfast while doing my morning pages
7.15 walk the dog, and do grocery shopping on the way if necessary
9.00 get home, have a cup of coffee
9.15 start studying! 8 months ago
This will be tough, but I’m doing good so far. Since Saturday I have been waking up at ass in the morning, doing my exercise, making breakfast, putting lunches together, taking a shower, getting dressed and doing my makeup (OK I did my makeup in the car while my husband was driving). Starting on the weekend actually seems to have made this easier. I will continue doing this every day, even weekends, because I know if I give myself a day off I will give myself another, and another, and so on. 8 months ago
I have developed my morning routine well enough to the point I feel comfortable adding to it. My goal in the coming weeks and months is to start waking up early enough to get exercise in before my shower. I know I will never have the motivation to do it once I get home after work, so that is my only option. Seems like if I just do what I have been doing and repeat, repeat, repeat until it is just part of what I do in the morning, I will be able to stick with it. 8 months ago
So I woke up at 6:30, but stayed in bed until 7. I brushed my teeth, washed my face, moisturised, did my hair and make-up and got dressed. Then I had a really good and healthy breakfast of cereal topped with milk, yoghurt, a banana, strawberries, blueberries, cherries and walnuts. To make it even more perfect, I got to work on time. Yay!
The only thing I’ve had to eliminate from my morning routine is showering first thing and the reason for that is due to patient contact at work and dealing with specimens, so I shower as soon as I come home instead.
This morning was not too bad, the only thing I couldn’t do was fit in breakfast. Still working on that. 8 months ago
7.00am Wake up, Brush my teeth
7.20am Exercise (dancing, jogging, yoga, hardcore routines)
-Breakfast
9.00am Morning facial !
9.30am Relaxing Shower/ Bubble Bath
10.15am Meditate-10-15 Mins
10.30am Visualisation-10 Mins
10.40am Gratitude list – Either I add into it or read through
11.00am Plan my activities(day/week)
11.30am Accomplish my goals ! 9 months ago
I’m always in a hurry in the morning, and running all over the place. So, I’d like to have more time and to do that I’m starting by waking up early. Little by little I’m setting my alarm clock earlier so I can get used to it, untill I made the habit of waking up at 7. My ideal morning is:
- Wake up at 7
- Go to the bathroom
- Get dressed
- Do reiki 15/30 minutes
- Eat breakfast while reading a book or the newspaper
- Brush my teeth and do hair and make-up
- Pick up my things, and get ready to leave
- Or if I have the day off, do homework
Ideally this shouldn’t take me more then 1,5 hours, so I should be all set at 8.30 – the exact time I have to leave for school.
My goal for these couple of days: getting up at 8.30 (I know..) and do everything (except for reiki) in 1 hr. When I get more time, I’ll do that in the morning in stead of evening. 9 months ago
