Productive Morning Routine
7 Energizing ideas to incorporate into your morning routine to make the best of it!
Productive Early Morning Routine Ideas
We’ve all seen the unrealistic videos of influencers waking up at four a.m. to feed their sourdough starter before taking a cold plunge. These type of videos make morning routines seem out of reach-and a little over the top.
In reality, morning routines are easy to start, simple to complete and carry a lot of benefits. Finding the right routine can make all the difference in helping you accomplish what you want and feel good doing it.
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Here are seven energizing ideas you can incorporate into your morning routine:
Good Morning Habits
✿ When your alarm rings, get up straight away
Setting an alarm and sticking to it is a straight-forward yet easily overlooked tip. Studies show that setting multiple alarms, or even using snooze, can have unintended consequences to your sleep pattern. Every time you fall asleep between alarms, you risk entering another sleep cycle, which can throw off your body’s rhythm and leave you feeling more groggy than before.
Instead, use one alarm set at the same time every day to help create a consistent daily routine. This helps your body and brain associate a specific time with being alert, awake, and ready to jumpstart the day.
✿ Eat a nutritious meal
What you eat has a significant impact on your energy levels throughout the day.
Feeling tired immediately after breakfast? Your breakfast may contain too much added sugar, unhealthy fats, or starches that don’t have enough fiber. These can take extra effort to digest and slow your body down, causing you to feel tired.
Starving before lunch? Focus on getting enough fiber and protein to keep you full.
The key to having the energy and fuel you need to get through the morning is eating a balanced breakfast. Eating whole foods rich in fiber and vitamins can give your body the boost it needs to get ready for the day ahead. Not to mention the other benefits of eating breakfast that can help you make healthier choices throughout the day.
✿ Prepare breakfast the night before
Eating a nutritious breakfast is nice in theory, but what if you don’ t have the time?
Having a meal plan is one of the best ways to save time and money when cooking your own meals. With breakfast ready to go, there’s no time wasted on decisions, prep, or cooking.
Overnight oats are a classic option, but there are plenty of other great recipes for make-ahead breakfast.
With these meal, you just pull them out of the fridge, heat if necessary and serve, and you’re all set to start the day.
✿ Limit screen time
It’s easy to let scrolling through your feed and binging videos take up a significant portion of your morning hours. But these activities are better saved for when you’re ready to relax and mentally unwind from your day.
Rather than just saying you will try not to use your phone so much in the morning, it’s better to set specific boundaries. Have a set time when you put the phone down or create self-applied rules to avoid phone usage such as leaving the phone in your bedroom while you eat breakfast. There are also plenty of great apps for limiting screen time that can help.
By setting specific limits for screen or tv show time in the morning, you are setting good boundaries and eliminating distractions.
✿ Practice mindfulness
Whether it’s journaling, meditating, reading a book, doing a devotional, or even coloring practicing mindfulness in the morning can help your brain focus and decompress. It may seem counterintuitive to some or more of a luxury than a necessity in our busy lives, but the benefits outweigh any of those concerns.
Don’t be too hard on yourself if you are finding it difficult to carve out time each morning to do this. Even starting with just five minutes a few times a week can be the start of a positive change. And you will notice the difference!
✿ Incorporate movement
There are endless mental and physical health benefits of exercising. Adding any sort of movement to your routine, even if it’s just stretching can help your body feel energized and eliminate stress.
✿ Create a planning routine
Having a planning routine can help you stay organized and fight overwhelm. Take time in the morning to review the tasks that you get done for the day and the week to make sure you are staying on track. Even a simple to-do list can help keep you focused.
If you have extra time, you can outline larger tasks into their actionable steps that need to be finished before you can check them off.
For example, renewing your driver’s license may require a phone call or a website visit to set up appointments, scheduling time off, picking out an outfit that meets the guidelines, gathering necessary documents to prove your identity, and more.
Writing out a detailed checklist for larger tasks eliminates last-minute rushes to try to get everything together. it also helps prevent mistakes that cause the task to take up even more time.
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A little preparation can make for a more productive morning
Don’t feel pressured to to have a 7-step morning routine everyday. Take these tips with a grain of salt and work on crafting a routine that is the most practical and effective for you.
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