Morning Habits

“Wake up early 5 days a week”

That was one of the goals that I made at the beginning of 2021. I was a month into the year and my goal of waking up was just that…a goal I wasn’t following through on.

One of my intentions for the year is to “take action” and so I asked myself, “how could I get myself to follow through and wake up in the morning and develop a routine?”

I started with asking myself my outcome…what did I want to get out of waking up early. What feeling was I trying to attain?

Waking up has never been easy for me and so many times I would hit the snooze button, telling myself I needed 5 more minutes of sleep. I’m a night owl, and lets be real, if I could, I would stay up to the wee hours of the morning and sleep in, but that’s not where I am in life and that’s not who I need to be to accomplish the things that I want, so I needed to tell myself a different story.

There were several things I wanted to get done in the morning before having to head to work. Go to the gym, read for 30 minutes, drink lemon water, meditate for 20-25 minutes (also one of my goals) and juice some fresh fruit and drink it in the morning.

Now that I knew what I wanted, and I knew that every morning that I did my routine I would feel like I had lived a lifetime by myself before I even had to face the day. I had the leverage I needed to get what I wanted.

I also love a good challenge. I love being able to conquer and do things that other people find difficult and can’t or don’t want to do.

It’s funny when you realize that there really is no difference between me and someone else who wants to wake up early and develop a morning routine. It’s just a choice. A choice to make a different decision. A choice to hit that snooze, a choice to get back into bed. A choice between what I want now and what I want most.

I reminded myself that successful people decide to do something and they just do it. So I decided I would plug my phone on the other side of the room, and once I got up to turn it off I wasn’t going back to bed.

There’s nothing like starting a new routine on the first of the month, as it makes me feel like I’m starting fresh. So January 30, 2021 I set my alarm for 4:00 am and I promised myself that I was committed to make my goals and dreams happen, NO EXCUSES!

Tiredness is a state of mind I tell myself some mornings, other mornings I try to remember to say “thank you for…” while I’m waking up to stay positive, but everyday I remind myself that the person who I choose to be, the person who I know I can be, the person who lives in her dream house, and makes the kind of money I dream of is the type of person who takes up at 4:00 am and takes control of her life.

Developing my morning routine has been a challenge but now that it’s starting to fall into place I’m kinda loving it. Let me tell you what it is.

4:00-4:05 AM – Wake up and wash my face

4:05 AM – Cup of lemon water (a whole lemon)

4:06-4:40 – Reading

4:40-5:00 – Make a cup of fresh juice and get ready for the gym

5:00 – 6:00 – Coffee and Gym

6:00 – 6:10 – Driving and IG posting (my bf drives :))

6:10-6:40 – Make breakfast and affirmations

6:40 – 7:00 – Eat breakfast and journal

7:00 – 7:05 – Dishes

7:05 – 7:35 – Get ready and listen to Tony Robbins Coaching or motivational YouTube’s

7:35-7:55 – Meditation

7:55-8:00 -Finish getting ready

8:05 – 8:30 – Driving to work and Audible

I won’t lie and say that it’s easy, its’ not. Some days it’s a struggle and all I want to do it go back to bed. But when building a habit, you have to do it every day, if you miss a day you pick it up as soon as possible.

So five days a week I do my routine of getting up and every week it gets a little easier.

Every morning I do it I get that feeling of accomplishment, I didn’t just reach my goal, I spent time with myself, I conquered what I thought I couldn’t and it was all me who did it.

Every morning I wake up I reinforce the person that I choose to be. Every morning I choose between what I want now, and what I want most.

I know what I MUST have and who I MUST be to get where I MUST go…and today, waking up early gets me one step closer to that person.

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