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Over the last few days I have been working on my morning routine; the activities and thought processes that will be the template for my day. As I mentioned in a previous post I am first incorporating the lessons I have learned from reading The Miracle Morning but will be including more from other resources as soon as I am confident I have what I am currently doing down pat and not trying to recall in between each step ‘what was next or what was I just doing?’
I know so many people whose minds run a mile a minute all day long and mine is no exception so I am always thinking of three or four things at once but now my goal is to focus on one specific task before moving on to the next. By giving my full attention to each task or step and immersing myself into it wholly I feel I do it better and it has more impact and meaning for my morning routine as well as the rest of my day. How we start our day is typically the template for how the rest of our day will unfold.
So, how did I do this morning? I woke up at 3:45 am since H gets up then to get ready for work and instead of changing the alarm to what I used to call ‘a more reasonable hour’ I got up. I did a short meditation which is an area where I really need to skill myself up because as I inferred above, quieting my mind is an area I struggle with. Granted it is a challenge when you have a tiny house and every noise H makes getting ready sounds like it is right beside me. I have a plan for that though.
Anyway, after that I did my morning affirmations to set out what my day is going to look like and today’s were, “I am going to be happy, energized, and productive; I will be not procrastinate; I will achieve the goals I set for myself today; and I will be open to learning and growing”. After affirmations comes visualization where I mentally see myself how I look and feel after I have completed my goals and at the end of the day. I am going to create a sort of vision board to help me with this one. The fourth step is exercise but that one I am going to do last as I walk to work this morning (2km which takes about 25 minutes). The last two are reading and scribing (writing). I reread two chapters from Miracle Morning and here I am scribing right now. There are other complimentary things which I will include in a future post but these are the bigger things at the moment.
I have a few post ideas my brain is working out, one is about something John Travolta said which I will paraphrase; cynicism is meaningless and has no value.
Until next time…cynicism is meaningless and has no value.
~ Crimson