Morning Routine
So I had a positive day today mostly because I started it right.
I’ve been listening to The Minimalist Podcast at work this week and have had mindfulness on my mind A LOT lately. I want to become more mindful and I feel like I could really do that by minimizing my life a little bit. One thing that I read and heard on the podcast is that by simply saying that I should do something isn’t going to change my mindset. By saying I should change is only going to make me think... yeah I should... but maybe on Monday, or New Years...
And they are so right, I needed to start saying I must instead of saying I should. I must is more deliberate. So I am going to say that I must change my morning routine.
Currently I set my alarm for 6:40 am, get pissed off when it goes off and set it for another 20-40 minutes. I had the intention of waking up at 6:40 to do yoga or meditate before I begin my day but I just always say I should wake up and meditate in the morning. And that isn’t working so it never gets done! Sometimes I don’t get out of bed until 7:20 which then rushes me around as I try to eat breakfast (which I don’t always do, by choice), and wash my face and brush my teeth and get dressed. It is so mundane. I hate mornings. But I know in my heart that I really don’t want to hate mornings, a matter of fact, early morning is one of my favorite times of day to drive or to run around because it is so cool and fresh and new. I love the idea of morning but can’t get myself to enjoy it for real.
This morning I woke up despite my frustration that I had to, I briefly stretched in my bed and sat up and chugged about 30 ounces of water. THAT IS SO GOOD FOR YOU!!! So yes, I peed three times before I left for work but my body needed that so bad, I was waking up with headaches which I’m diagnosing as some dehydration. I felt really proud and excited that I had drank so much before I even put my feet on the ground.
Then I woke up, peed, brushed my teeth, and washed my face. I then decided that I wanted to do yoga this morning. After lasts night yoga class we were warned that we would be pretty sore today so I wanted to prepare the best I could by... well... doing more yoga haha! So I did some sun salutations, and some strength, stretching, and awakening postures and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT! At the end I was sad that it was already 7:20 and I needed to start getting ready. I wanted time to meditate after that session.
I even ate breakfast. Sometimes my stomach doesn’t actually like to eat breakfast, it can be picky sometimes. But I did this morning, however I tried something different. I have a bad habit of filling a bowl with cereal and dumping milk in. Then realizing I have too much milk but don’t want to waste it (I am not a cereal milk drinker) so then I dump more cereal in to soak up the milk... and it seems to be a horrific cycle to the point that I have had probably 3x the suggested serving! So I measure out the serving size. IT WAS ALL I NEEDED! In turn I used way less milk which is perfect because I can go through it too fast that way.
It was only after all of that that I checked my phone, and social media.
Then I turned my podcast on and walked out the door feeling really, REALLY great. If that is all it takes for me to have an amazing day, why don’t I just do that every morning???
Well, I must because today I not only felt incredible but I feel more accomplished.
