Is your morning routine helping or hindering your positivity and productivity?
In this video, Brian Tracy gives us 7 tips for our morning routine that can help set us up for the day ahead and increase our positivity and productivity.
1. Stop hitting the snooze button
If you stay in bed for as long as you can before you have to get up, you’re wasting away the most valuable hours of your day. Instead of hitting the snooze button on your alarm, set your alarm earlier and use the morning hours to accomplish important tasks, relax your mind and prepare for the day ahead.
2. Avoid checking emails right away
If you jump straight into your
emails as soon as you wake up, you aren’t giving your mind the chance to
make the transition from rest to work in the most beneficial way.
Instead of reading your emails, use this time to perform activities that will put you in a positive mental state, such as exercising, reading or meditating.
3. Don’t forget to exercise in the morning
Exercising offers lots of physical and mental benefits, especially early in the morning as it gets the blood flowing to both your brain and your body, which helps you to get going and sets you up for the day.
4. Stop leaving your bed unmade
Each morning before you leave the house, take the time to make your bed. Whilst this might seem like a trivial task, it offers a number of surprising benefits.
Firstly, it means that you’ll have started the day with at least one productive task completed. Secondly, it means that even if you don’t accomplish anything else for the rest of the day, you’ll have a nice and welcoming bed to go to sleep in at the end of the day.
5. Don’t skip breakfast
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day as it provides your mind and your body with the fuel that you need to help you get through the day.
6. Meditation
Meditation can help you to clear your mind first thing in the morning, and help to eliminate any worries or anxiety that you may have about any upcoming activities.
One of the best times to meditate is first thing in the morning after you’ve just woken up and your mind isn’t racing with all the distractions that will inevitably come up during the day.
7. Don’t waste your morning commute
Listening to an educational podcast or audiobook on your commute is a great way to learn and make the best use of your time. Over the course of months and years, your commuting time adds up and you can become an expert in a topic simply by using this time to learn.
“Successful people
are simply those with successful habits”
– Brian Tracy
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