10 Ways a Morning Routine Will Improve Your Life

 

We all know the importance of a morning routine, it comes with benefits that you will experience once you incorporate it. Some people discover that they are more productive, and others experience a feeling of mindfulness and relaxation. Morning routines are unique for everyone.

Some of the benefits you will experience will change your life for the better. So let's dive into the matter.

1. Your days will have a better structure.

Following a carefully planned routine, each morning will give your day a better structure. The repetition of these activities will make your morning and day more predictable. Once you know what will happen every day you will perform your task with greater efficiency.

2. Higher levels of energy

Many morning activities will help you increase your energy and some of them will ensure that you won't have a mid-morning energy crash.

For example, taking a long walk and consuming a high protein meal will ensure your energy throughout the morning, other examples will be yoga, meditation or for the brave ones, a cold shower.

3. You will be less likely to have decision fatigue.

The more decisions you make the less quality they will be. This is decision fatigue. When you suffer from decision fatigue you will become less capable to make a good decision and are likely to have impulsive decisions and non-rational choices.

The morning routine will help you minimize the number of decisions you will have to make each day. The morning activities will become a habit, therefore, will be done automatically without any thought given.

If you haven't read our post on What are Decision Fatigue. 7 Strategies For Overcoming Decision Fatigue please follow the link.

4. More productivity throughout the day.

We are all familiar with this effect, when our day starts well the rest of it will be good too, and we feel more in control of the day. This feeling is due to having a positive outlook, more energy, feeling excited and experiencing less stress. All these benefits are because we know what we have to do throughout the day. The benefit of a morning routine is that it prepares your mind to deal with inevitable daily challenges and obstacles, without it it will derail your productivity.

5. You'll Feel Better.

Let's compare the following morning routines.

In the first one, you will start your day with a glass of water and will be followed by 15 minutes of meditation and then go for a jog, have a shower and then a high protein breakfast.

The second routine will be you dragging out of bed after hitting the snooze button the second time and having a croissant and a coffee. Then rush to the office.

No wonder the second routine will have a bad impact on your day and make you fatigued.

The morning routine should be a list of activities that are beneficial for your body and brain health.

6. Experience less stress.

We have all been there and experienced the type of stress when you get everything done at the last moment and hurry to finish everything. Doesn't matter the activity, if you are late to work, or trying to get the kids ready for school. You will experience anxiety. 

A good morning routine will eliminate this stress from our lives. You will have plenty of time to address all your morning chores and start your day stress and anxiety-free.

7. Positive mindset

Is difficult to have a negative attitude when you have more energy, less stress and you are productive. Naturally, you will be much happier. This will make you more optimistic about the things you can accomplish throughout the day.

When you are positive people will gravitate toward you and you will attract more people around you. So do not be surprised by this.

8. Better health.

Better health will come hand in hand with the activities that you choose. Keep in mind these activities should ultimately promote better mental and physical health. Earlier we mentioned yoga, jogging, and healthy breakfast, well this is just to scratch the surface. There are many things you can do for this benefits. Sometimes you can choose these activities based on your goals like losing weight or improving your memory.

9. Better focus

When you start your day with a healthy morning routine you will experience greater clarity of your day. Focusing on the thing that needs to be done will become much easier.

The focus is attributed to more energy, less stress and anxiety and better sleep. If you have these conditions will be much easier to focus on any given task.

10. You will have more purposeful days.

Morning routines create a great purpose for your day. You will feel a stronger connection to the tasks and projects you working on and have better clarity of the day's most important items and how to complete them.

Conclusion and resources.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the reading and convince you to start working on a morning routine.

The above example I listed earlier and not the only thing you will experience, however, those are the most common benefits of morning routines.

Resources:

Morning Makeover: How To Boost Your Productivity, Explode Your Energy, and Create An Extraordinary Life - One Morning At A Time!

Damon Zahariades