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A well-thought-out morning routine is the ultimate backbone of self-care. When your mornings are productive and positive, that sets the tone for the rest of your day.
Building and maintaining the perfect morning routine can be difficult. But once you’ve mastered it and found what’s right for you, you’ll discover that there are actually more hours in the day than you thought.
I’ve come up with a short list of morning essentials to incorporate into your morning routine daily.
Benefits of a Healthy Morning Routine
-A solid morning routine will brighten your mood and give you more energy during the day.
-Reduces anxiety and boosts productivity.
-Makes you feel more in control, you decide when and how your day begins.
-Lowers your stress levels and,
-Prepares you for the rest of the day and sets the tone.
Step 1: Plan Ahead
Planning your day the night before allows you to maximize your productivity. It gives you a sense of purpose for the following day and allows you to prioritize important tasks.
It may not be an actual part of your morning routine, but it prepares you for it by,
-Breaking your day down into focus areas.
-Allows you to keep your weekly and monthly goals in mind.
-Makes your daily priorities actionable and achievable
-Gives you enough time to execute your morning routine when you plan ahead of time.
Step 2: Rest
Good sleep improves your brain performance, mood, and overall health. A good night’s sleep is as important as eating a balanced and nutritious diet and regular exercise. A healthy sleep schedule has many benefits,
-Improves concentration and productivity.
-Allows for better mental health and mood.
-And affects emotions and social interactions positively.
Set a daily sleep schedule, a time to go to bed, and a time to wake up. This will make it much easier to stick to a healthy routine.
Though it may vary from person to person, most research suggests that you get about 7-9 hours of sleep for optimal health.
Step 3: Don’t Hit Snooze
The problem with snoozing your alarm is the sleep that comes afterward comes with more issues than rest.
The interrupted sleep causes you to feel groggy and tired and this may cause you to oversleep and ruin your entire sleep schedule. It has also been proven to affect your metabolism and energy levels negatively.
Overall snoozing your alarm is a bad way to start off your day, some ways to avoid hitting snooze are,
-Going to Bed and waking up at the same time each day
-Winding down before bed and getting relaxed
-Avoid eating, alcohol, and screentime right before bed
-Move your alarm clock across the room so you need to get up and when it goes off
Get out of bed as soon as your alarm goes off, or at least sit up to avoid dosing off. Then open up your curtains or turn on your lights to let your brain know it’s time to get up.
Step 4: Hydrate
First things first, drink a glass of water before you do anything else. A glass of lukewarm water with a slice of lemon is optimal.
It’s worth lugging yourself to the kitchen for. Drinking water immediately when you wake up rehydrates your body. There are many more benefits to drinking water as soon as you wake up;
-Increases your level of alertness
-Helps to fuel your brain and promote optimal brain activity
-Strengthens the immune system
-Gets rid of toxins in your body that have been stored overnight
If you love having a warm drink in the mornings, you can substitute your glass of water for a cup of tea.
Step 5: Make Your Bed
This simple yet easily overlooked chore can go a long way in helping to improve your day.
It makes your space feel less cluttered and encourages you to stay out of bed for the rest of the day.
It encourages you to keep your room clean. And serves as a guidepost for other good habits during the day.
Step 6: Fuel Your Body
Aim to eat breakfast within the first 2 hours of waking up.
A healthy breakfast provides you with energy to seize your day, helps jump-start your metabolism, balances your blood sugar levels, and supports better weight management.
By fueling your body before it craves food you stop yourself from succumbing to less healthy convenient options later in the day.
Make sure to include micronutrients in your breakfast as it supports brain power, mood, and energy. And stops fatigue from sneaking up on you.
Step 7: Morning Self-Care
Treat yourself with love and care each morning, this will put out into the universe how you want others to treat you.
A few minutes of self-care every morning ( whatever that may be for you) can set you up for a great day. A few options for quick daily self-care are;
-Read something that feeds your soul
-Romanticize your morning cup of tea
-Start a bullet journal or diary to have an outlet for emotions
-Stretch, go on a short walk, or do some yoga
You decide what self-care means to you, then take 15 minutes out of your morning to show yourself some self-love before you have to take on the world.
Step 8: Move Your Body
Exercise can be really daunting. Especially early in the morning when you’ve barely even fully woken up yet.
So take it lightly, go on a short walk each morning to get your body moving and catch some sun. You can start by just going out the door each morning and slowly increasing the amount of time you spend outside.
Eventually, you can go up to a short jog. Incorporating some movement will do both your mind and body good. Doing a morning workout helps pave your day for success, you’re more likely to eat healthily and stay active.
Step 9: Review Your To-do
If you’ve read our article on how to plan your week, you know we believe that your days should be planned ahead of time.
Even though you’ve planned your day the night before, take this time in the morning to review what you have going on for the day. Making tweaks where needed and preparing yourself for what’s to come.
This will help you set your intentions for the day.
Step 10: Get Ready
Whether it’s a chill day in, you’re just working from home, or you’ll only be leaving the house later in the day. Get ready in the mornings.
This will help with time management for when you have to leave the house, or if something urgent came up and you have to rush out the door.
However, if you’re staying home and want to get work done, staying in your pajamas will not encourage a good work day. Prepare yourself for a day in the office, because that’s what your house will be like for the day, your office.
And even if you’re just staying home, getting dressed always makes a load of a difference.
You might also like How To Be More Self-Confident.
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