Makeover Your Morning Mini-Challenge

Creating routines and habits for your mornings is a great thing. They allow you to do what you need to do to move ahead without having to spend a lot of energy and time thinking about it. That’s a good thing.

It can also be a dangerous thing when you’ve been focusing on the wrong things and are in the habit of doing things that don’t help you reach your goals.

Actionable tips and strategies you can use every day to make the most of your mornings

When we get into a routine, it’s hard to stop and ask ourselves if it’s working as well as it could be. Even more importantly, with a routine and a set of habits firmly established, it’s easy to keep going even when the circumstances change. That’s why it’s important to take some time every now and again to review our routine and habits, including the new morning routine.

Set aside a little time every few weeks, or even months to review your routine.

Put it on the calendar and make sure you do it. It won’t take long and it will be a very valuable exercise in the long run.

Our lives and circumstances change. Our routines should change with it. Just because something has served us well over the past few weeks and months, doesn’t mean it will continue to do so.

This brings up a good point…

When you sit down to review your morning routine (or any routine or habit you’ve been working on for that matter), ask yourself this:

Assess What Is Working On Your Morning Routine

Is it working? Is it working really well?

If it is, simply carry on. If it isn’t, it may be time to make some changes and tweak it until you find something that works well for you at that particular point in time.

Another way to look at it is to find what you love and what you hate about the new morning routine. Change it accordingly until you get as close as possible to loving everything about it and still getting the results you want.

Remember, this morning routine will change and evolve over time as you, your circumstances, and the people in your life change and evolve. Embrace the changes and look at them as an indication that you’re making progress.

Keep tweaking and improving your morning routine and don’t be afraid to mix up your goals for it. Maybe you started out by making exercise a priority first thing of the day.

As time goes by and you become more fit and make time for it later in the day, your focus may shift to meditation, or learning a new language.

Keep evolving, keep changing, and keep using those precious first few hours of each day to establish some positive change in yourself and those around you.

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Makeover Your Morning Mini-Challenge – Day 6

With your new morning game plan figured out, it’s time not only to put it into action but make it your new morning routine. Why is this important? Because you want to make sure your new plan happens every morning without fail, and turning it into practice is the best way to make sure that happens.

Before something becomes a habit or a routine, it takes a lot of willpower to make things happen. That’s energy that you will need for other things throughout your morning and busy the rest of the day.

Yes, it will take some willpower, mental energy, and drive at first to create the new morning habits, but once they are set, it will become automatic, like brushing your teeth before bed.

Once you come up with an excellent working morning routine, stick to it for a few weeks. That’s the best way to turn it into a strong habit. Before long, it will feel like the new normal, and you no longer have to remind yourself to do each thing along the way.

It will have become a habit and a routine you’ll follow automatically. It will take a lot less effort and mental pep-talk to get things done, even if your new practice includes a 30-minute run or getting up at the crack of down to work on your most crucial business task for an hour.

Watch out for moments when you slip back into your old habits and routines. It’s going to happen.

The key is to catch it early and get back on track as quickly as possible. For example, let’s say you’ve been doing well with waking up 30 minutes earlier and going for a run before starting your day.

Then one day, you oversleep and can’t make it out there. Or the weather turns too bad, you get sick or hurt, or something else pops up that keeps you from going on that run.

That’s life, and it happens. What’s important is what you decide to do the following day.

Whenever life gets in the way of your new morning routine, your most important job is to get back on track as quickly as possible. Do what you can as soon as you notice the disruption.

If the weather is bad, do a quick workout at home, or head to the gym to run on the treadmill.

If you overslept, try to squeeze in a few minutes of meditation or doing something to grow your business before you get back to the rest of your day. Most importantly, get back on track with your regular morning routine as soon as possible.

Get back into your new habits the following day if at all possible.

Actively remind yourself to get back on track for a few days until a routine is firmly back in place. You’ll be glad you did when you start to see the results you’ve been hoping for.

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Makeover Your Morning Mini-Challenge – Day 5

Now that you have a pretty good idea of what you want to do in the morning, what you don’t want to or need to do, and where to find the extra time needed, it’s time to put it all together in a new morning game plan.

The best place to start is with the new set of tasks that are most important to you.

Figure out a time during which you want to get them accomplished. If your goal is to go for a run in the morning, you may decide to do that first thing before getting a shower and having breakfast.

If your goal is to meditate each morning, you may decide it would work best after you’ve had a cup of coffee.

If your goal is to find some time for reading or your favorite hobby in the morning, you could carve out some time before everyone else gets up and while you enjoy that first coffee.

The same goes for wanting time in the morning to work on your business or learn something new.

Then work the rest of your morning chores around these new plans. It may take some moving around and mixing up with your current routine, but with a little creative thinking and a bit of flexibility, I’m sure you can come up with a working plan.

Making over your morning and turning it into a new routine isn’t something that comes naturally to most of us. It takes a little while to get into the groove of things.

We’ll look at this in a little more detail tomorrow. For right now, my suggestion is that you write your new morning game plan down. It’s easy to forget what you’re planning to do.

Writing it down will not only give you a reference to refer back to, but also solidify your new plan in your mind.

Put the note or notebook where you jotted down your new plan on your night table or somewhere else where you’ll see it first thing in the morning. It will serve as a reminder of what you’re intending to do and do differently in the morning now.

Even though you’ve written your plan down, it’s important to realize it’s not written in stone.

The well-laid out plans don’t always work when put into action. Adjust it and make changes as needed until you come up with a new morning game plan that works well for you and the rest of your family. Once you have that it’s time to make it the new routine… something we’ll talk more about tomorrow.

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