Million Dollar Morning Routine
Welcome to the morning routine that will set you up to own your day. Owning your day means you’re setting yourself up for success. When you find your rhythm, gain clarity, and start your day on your time, you can take the lead.
When you start your day in a hot mess with emails or messages and letting others enter your world without your permission, you begin in a high-stress environment. The million dollar morning routine is unique to you, your needs, what is going on in your life. Getting into the routine takes some work and requires you to keep showing up and refining it. You won’t get it the first time and you’ll have to keep making changes as you learn what works for you.
Why is it so important to kickstart your day with a routine?
If you’re a busy working professional, a mother, or in between other things, creating a morning routine is where you make some time for yourself before the kids wake up or before work kicks in. If you're starting late, with ten minutes to spare before you run out the door, how do you think your day will go?
Here’s the key areas to focus on helping you achieve a million dollar morning routine that you can boss. As always I will present the tools and the framework - what is crucial is the action from you.
Key steps to bulletproof your morning routine:
1. Reviewing what you currently do
In order to move forwards you need to highlight the key things you do now. Ask yourself: are they serving me and the future I want to create? Or are they sabotaging me?
Write out on the left side of the paper your current routine - an honest account. If you don’t have one… think about when you shower, brush teeth, the basics and work from there. Analyse it and circle the ones you will keep.
2. Writing out your million dollar morning routine
It’s one thing thinking about what you would like to change, but writing it down and giving yourself cues can really help you to take the action that you need.
On the right side of the paper write out the ideal and realistic routine you want to work towards. Think about how you want to feel from a physical and mental standpoint. If you travel for business, for example, you can do a separate one for this too. Include times, being specific on what that looks like, consider roadblocks, and what makes you feel good and in control of your day.
3. Starts the night before
Your morning routine starts the night before. If you’re at dinners, work events, or watching that extra episode (or five) of Netflix, it has a direct correlation of how you move through your next day. If you're tired, it will likely affect your food choices and maybe you’ll skip a workout. I’m not saying don’t live your life and enjoy those moments. What I suggest and love to use is a question: “How do I want to feel tomorrow?” I have always found that really helps with my decision making.
If you want to make changes to your health, energy and how you show up for yourself in the day, then reviewing what you do in the evening is super important. Sometimes you will have events and things going on and that’s ok, just know on those nights and on the following days, you may need to tweak what you’re working on.
4. Get up straight away when your alarm goes
Creating discipline for your morning means you get up and kickstart the day on your terms. This is an opportunity to commit to yourself by not hitting the snooze button. Remember it’s not going to be perfect - you just need to start.
5. No phone zone
This is one of my favourite rules - no phone for the first 30 minutes of the day. If you’re setting an alarm, try to switch it off and go straight into the routine you’re setting up for yourself.
As with anything there are things that crop up and that’s ok, you can manage it accordingly. But if you’re jumping straight into your emails or socials, you’re instantly inviting 100 people into your headspace at the start of your day. Would you let 100 physical people into your bedroom in the morning? I’m going to assume not in this case. The same applies with all of our gadgets. So instead, start the day with quality time with yourself.
6. Something for the mind
Do something for your mind to start the day to help set you up for success. This means no matter what comes your way, you’re able to overcome it because you’ve started with a clear mind and direction.
Everyone is different, so try something that works for you, or try from this list here that has science-backed evidence to help you:
Breathwork
Journal
Read ten pages
Write your list of actionables for the day
Your mind is a key part of your progress so don’t ignore it.
7. Something for the body
Getting your heart rate up and clearing your mind through exercise is proven to help you shift your headspace. Connect with your body in ways you enjoy, that make you feel calm, release the endorphins and get that dopamine.
Have a glass of water
Stretch
Go for a walk
Do your workout
Sex is always a winner
The aim is that you run your day before it runs you.
By nature, we’re more inclined to try to help others before ourselves. This is particularly true for women, through what has been coined the Human Giver Syndrome. Learn that in order for you to take action or control in your life, you need to learn to put yourself first.
Remember at different points of your life you may need to adapt your routine, so set your intentions and review regularly. Try to keep to the main core of your routine, but also be willing to pivot when needed, because life happens and it doesn’t always go to plan. Some examples include:
Travelling for business
Travelling for leisure
Disruptive kids in the night
Working late to finish a project
Not feeling well
Stressful period at work
Be conscious of what is around you and be ready to pivot depending on what is coming your way. But always keep to the intention of how you will show up.
Now it is over to you to create. Because no one is coming to save you, no one can force you to take action. Commit to yourself and all the greatness you can achieve.
It’s time to go beyond and reach your full potential!
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