I love mornings. I love that each new day brings new opportunities and every day is a chance to start fresh and do even better.
How you start your day, or more specifically how you spend those first few morning hours has a big impact on the rest of your day. Your morning routine sets the tone for your entire day. That’s why its important to make sure your morning routine creates the feelings you want to carry with you all day. The first hours set the tone, that last much longer than just those first few hours.
One of the most common bad habits is the use of the snooze button. I have been guilty of this bad habit myself, so I know it can ruin my whole day.
You set an early alarm to make sure you have time for exercise, meditation, or simply some much needed “me time”. You have every intention of getting up and doing whatever you’re setting out to do when you set the alarm in the first place. Some mornings – hopefully most mornings – you get up when the alarm chimes and go for that walk, do your meditation exercise, or read a book for twenty minutes.
Then there are those days when you just can’t make yourself get up. You hit the snooze button multiple times, or turn the alarm off altogether and go back to sleep. For me, if I start hitting that snooze button, it means I’m not going to be getting up anytime soon. How about you, when you hit the snooze, how do those days really turn out?
- What difference did you notice on the days that you got up vs. hit the snooze button?
- How much did you got done on the mornings when you got up with your first alarm?
- Were you able to do all the things you set out to do when you hit the snooze button?
If I had to take a guess, I’d say that the mornings when you got up as soon as the alarm went off went a lot smoother. I bet you accomplished what you have planned to do, too. Chances are that sleeping through the snooze button didn’t just affect your morning, but the entire rest of your day.
You set the tone for how your day is going to go first thing in the morning. That’s what the old saying about getting up on the wrong side of the bed is about. Let’s make sure we get up on the right side and start our day off in a positive and productive way.
I want to help you through the process of making over your morning. As we’ve already established, this is an important tasks and a good thing to work on and pay attention to. Not only will you enjoy your mornings more even if the alarm goes off much earlier than you’d like, it will make the entire rest of your day go much smoother.
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