What is a powerful morning routine and how do you start one? Most of you start your day off alarmed as your phone buzzes next to the bed. You grab the phone, turn off the alarm, get up and throw on some clothes or a robe. You walk into the kitchen, grab some breakfast or coffee and start looking at your feed, email, and maybe the news to see what is going on in the world. Maybe you exercise, or get the kids off to school. Then you jump in the car, turn on some music or walk into the home office. There are a million different ways to start your day. Finding out what serves you best is important. I can’t give you an ideal routine that fits everyone as we are all a little different. But let’s look at some tools to build your amazing day.
Do you start your day with your focus hijacked? Looking at emails and checking voicemail? Looking at what fires need to be put out during the day. This helps you find out what requirements people have for you? Ron Friedman said in the Harvard Business Review, “What’s the first thing you do when you arrive at your desk? For many of us, checking email or listening to voicemail is practically automatic. In many ways, these are among the worst ways to start a day. Both activities hijack our focus and put us in a reactive mode, where other people’s priorities take center stage. They are the equivalent of entering a kitchen and looking for a spill to clean or a pot to scrub.” Do you start your day looking for a pot to scrub or do you plan your day?
If any of these things happen in the morning then your priorities are on the back burner from that point on. Mark Twain came up with a famous saying that has been backed by research time and again. Mark said “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” I interpret this to mean start with the biggest most important task, the ones that will make the most difference in your life first. In the planning meeting plan what frog to eat.
Steve Jobs said in a commencement address he gave in 2005 He stated “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” What if today were your last day? Would you call in sick? Do you know what you would want to do? Do you dread Mondays and live for the weekends? If so, is security worth giving up 3/4ths of your life? Is there a way to live your life so that you love nearly every day? If you are tired of suffering through this and need help to get to where you want to go. Let’s talk.
There are three things that are important in a great morning routine.
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