I’m trying to get my mornings to be more consistent as well as help kick start my day on the right foot. While this may not be optimal and testing out various approaches, this is where I landed at the end of the year to maximize my days. How do you start your mornings?
Order of morning:
- Wake up – With the consistency of WFH, I tried to get up at around 5am every morning. I didn’t have issues most mornings and got into the groove (vs the weekly adjustments due to travel).
- Bathroom / measure self – First thing’s first. After “taking care of business”, I weighed myself on two scales (it’s stupid but because they capture different metrics and are slightly off on weight). I’ll probably move forward with just one to keep things easier.
- Review digital bujo / update tracker / identify gratitude – This is somewhat new for me but started using my iPad app – GoodNotes – to write/track content instead of typing things out on different apps. The first “mental” activity to be in the right state of mind as well as aware of what was ahead in my day as well as listing off things I’m grateful for.
- Complete 5-minute meditation – This was also new and something I started after seeing this as an option on Peloton. I tried the longer meditation classes but ended up sticking with the 5-minute ones with the focus on mental clarity.
- Prepare morning coffee – If in a time crunch, I made a Nespresso espresso. But tried to go through the process of manually grinding coffee beans and brewing a cup of coffee with my Aeropress.
- Write in daily journal – I’m torn on this one but tried to keep this consistent, which actually ended up being the homepage of this site. Ended up focusing on a few items to force myself to comprehend the content, think through my thoughts, and communicate that in writing. I’m still tweaking the structure but addressing the key objective/purpose of writing.
- Stretch / complete body strength circuit – I haven’t been able to be consistent on this but realized with cycling, I needed to balance out my body as well with stretches and strength workouts.