How A Good Morning Routine Can Make You A Less Stressed Leader

by Annika Sorensen | | Leadership & Corporate

Today we’re here in the middle of January and this is the time of the year when most people have had their new year’s promises going for a few weeks, promising themselves that this is going to be the year that I am starting to exercise and I’m starting to make the big changes I need to make etc.

But, by this time in January so many people have already fallen out of that new routine because it’s very hard to start new routines and especially if you promise yourself too much.

It’s very easy to promise yourself too much because you really do want to make changes but you just don’t know how. This is because you’re comfortable with your old routines and it’s the life that you know. You go back into the old routines because it’s an easier way to live.

Today I want to present to you a thought that I had been working on about making a routine that you can stick to and that will help you tremendously in the long run, but it will take some time and you’ll have to be consistent.

I am going to talk about a morning routine. All my mentors and all their mentors, from what I understand, they talk about morning routines and that that’s what you need to have to be a successful person, and I do agree so far. Then they talk about what is this morning routine. Most of them say they take about one hour or maybe two hours in their routine that includes reading books to inspire you, it’s about writing for yourself or journaling about what you’re going to do during the day and it’s about exercising to energise you for the day.

If you have a morning routine that takes one hour it is very, very hard to implement. If you are a hardworking boss in a company or in your own company or you’re employed as an executive and you have the responsibility for a lot of things then it might be very hard to set aside a full hour in the morning because there is so much to do.

I have been thinking about how can one change that to get to getting good morning routine that will help you but that doesn’t take an hour. So what I wanted to suggest today is a short version of the successful people’s morning routines and I’ve tried it out for some time now and I find it’s easy to implement and it’s really keeping me going in a good way that I wanted it to do.

You do have to put in something and that is you have to get out of bed 15 minutes before you usually do. You have to set your alarm 15 minutes earlier and I am sure that is doable for just about anybody. In the long run maybe you have to go to bed 15 minutes earlier in the evenings because you do need to have your full sleep. I totally agree on that.

What I want you to use those 15 minutes for is to when you when you wake up. You sit up on your bed or if you do have your better half sleeping in the same room then maybe you should go out of the room so that you don’t disturb them.

Sit on your bed or on a chair somewhere else in the house or in your apartment and then you stretch. Start with stretching your arms above your head then roll your shoulders and continue down the rest of your body for about three to four minutes until you feel that you have opened up your body a bit.

Next up I want you to sit quietly and concentrate on the day ahead. You can close your eyes if it helps you visualise but you don’t have to.

Is there an important meeting?

Is there something else important that you are going to do or is it just ordinary things?

Whatever it is that you have coming up during your day I want you to think about what you are doing in a good way. I want you to talk yourself through the things you’ll be doing in present time just like you are in the middle of doing it. For example: “I am having this meeting, it’s real, we’re having a nice conversation. We talk about the positive things that I want to happen from that meeting and I can see we have a good result from the meeting and we are friends afterwards.”.

I can’t predict every situation but whatever you’re doing think about it in present time and in a positive way with a good outcome. Also if there is something special you need to to do that day that is hard you say I am doing it with ease. It’s going to be very good. And then after those few minutes you say to yourself. “Today is a good day.” And that’s it.

That maybe takes 10 of those 15 minutes the rest of the 15 minutes I want you to have this kind of a spare time because moving around takes time too and we don’t want to rush anything.

You can also use it to have your breakfast in a relaxed way. Just a tiny bit slower or at least you won’t be running for the bus whilst eating or eating in the car.

One of the biggest points is to make sure you’re not rushing and that you’re kinda slowing down your whole world.

When you get to your job, to your workplace you will be in a good mood because you have set a good mood inside your brain. It’s scientifically known that if you think in a positive way things are going to be more positive. That doesn’t mean that it has to be the perfect outcome every time because that’s not how it works, but the more positive good thoughts and good expectations you have the better it will be.

This is my tip for today you just take those extra 15 minutes and practice everyday.

You can do it on the weekends too when you’ll talk about what you’re going to do during the weekend.

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