Download
1 / 13
130 likes | 142 Views
Discover the power of establishing a meaningful morning routine to set a positive tone for your day. Learn practical tips, best practices, and the benefits of starting your day intentionally. Find inspiration to create a powerful routine that aligns with your goals.
E N D
Kyla Schneider Sr. Consultant in LD & Executive Coach Ratliff & Taylor kschneider@rtcpi.com Creating Meaning ful & Powerful Morning Routines
Benefitsof an Early Morning Routine • Standardizing the first 30 minutes to two hours with a routine lets you arrive at your peak in the best possible mindset • Gives you something to hold onto —a sense of normalcy to root yourself • Helps you set your intention, your mood, and creates a deliberate mindset to limit wasteful time • Accomplish one small win to generate momentum, a fundamental part of human psychology “The way you start your morning sets the tone for the rest of your day. Building a morning routine that sets you up for the perfect day is one of the big “secrets” everyone knows but for some reason can’t pull off.” - The Morning Sidekick Journal
The Endowment Effect • Discovered by researchers Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky • According to the Endowment Effect, if you’ve already started the day by moving your life forward, you have established positive momentum, and are more likely to keep doing positive things • Purpose of the morning routine: • You should get one “small win” to create momentum in each life domain that’s important to you • A small win is anything which creates momentum
Ben Franklin’s Morning Routine • Question: What good shall I do this day? • Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goodness! • Contrive day’s business, and take the resolution of the day • Prosecute the present study • Breakfast
18 Best Practices for Morning Routines • What would my life look like if I had a morning routine filled with incredible habits every single day for the next 30 days? • What sort of ripple effect would a morning routine have on my work and other areas of my life? • What will I continue to miss out on if I don’t make needed changes? Bonus Questions: What are the top hurdles I’m facing with getting to bed on time and mastering my mornings? What do I need to do to overcome these? What small positive change could I make in my night time routine?
18 Best Practices for Morning Routines • Most important aspect is doing the routine daily • First determine your wake up time and then get to bed based on number of hours you want to sleep • Know what you want to get out of your morning routine • Exercise/Meditation • Read/Listen to Podcast or TedTalk • Eat a healthy breakfast • Knock out one home chore or work task • Write an appreciation note • Journal • Spend time with loved ones *Set the time you want to spend for one or multiple activities 7. Keep a Journal for 66 Days • Most important task for today is…. • One way I can improve life by 1% is…. • Top 2 distractions to minimize tonight (before bed) • Magical Moment (s) I experienced today… • My morning ritual for tomorrow will be…. a) b) c) d) Check off what you complete the next day
18 Best Practices for Morning Routines • Each night before going to bed – select outfit, determine breakfast, get bags together by door, and set first “ritual” you will absolutely do • Include exercise to give you additional hours of productivity • Read a poem/spiritual/religious text • Find an accountability partner to review results each day on morning routine • Condition yourself week-by-week to wake up earlier • Create an “Affirmation” for your morning routine goals… “I understand that to succeed, I must utilize my life every day to its full potential” • Life S.A.V.E.R.S. • Silence (meditation) • Affirmations • Visualization • Exercise • Reading • Scribing (journaling) • Drink a glass of water each morning • Listen to upbeat, fast tempo music while showering and getting dressed • Turn your phone onto Grey Scale at night • Maintain consistency throughout the weekend
Moving Forward – Coaching Tips • Define the desired outcome you are trying to create, your environment and your resources • Choose a behavior that is likely to yield the result you are trying to attain • Choose a behavior you have a “fire in your belly” for • Design a simple, straightforward action plan • What you’ll say and do • When you’ll say and do it • The results you expect to see if you say and do it effectively • Ask for real time feedback
Self Exercise: Complete A Journal for Tonight & Tomorrow Keep a Journal for 66 Days • Most important task for tomorrow will be... • One way I can improve life by 1% is…. • Top 2 distractions to minimize tonight (before bed) • Magical Moment (s) I’ve experienced today… • My morning ritual for tomorrow will be (choose up to four from the 18 Best Practices)…. 1. 2. 3. 4. • *Check off what you complete the next day
Moving Forward • Link desired behavior change to what will bring the greatest change to you • Generate curiosity and intrigue to enhance motivation • Try out the new “emotional intelligence” – increase your emotional vocabulary • Try the “Imagine yourself a year from now” perspective for entrenched challenges • Construct “If…then…” and “When…I will…” intention statements
2 x 2 Simple Development Plan Goal One: Goal Two: New Behavior or Action New Behavior or Action • New Behavior or Action • New Behavior or Action
A Simple Idea: Tomorrow, you will be exactly who you are today. The rest of your life is a future projection of who you are today. If you change today, tomorrow will (likely) be different. If you don’t change today, the rest of your life is (likely) predetermined.
