The magic of early mornings that will change your life

A lot of us feel that morning slip away without accomplishing much. Where we have our sight on the clock but tackle less important activities, and sideline the unimportant stuff.

Based on my personal experience I face challenges every morning while juggling my responsibilities as a mother and creating the mindset for the workday. We all encounter the same problem on a daily basis.It is one thing to be out of being early, It is another thing to find a way around the numerous hurdles that we face before starting the work.

Even when we get ourselves to work in one piece, it is common to waste time on less relevant tasks, like replying emails or looking through contents online that is of no importance to our work. A 2011 poll by national sleep foundation revealed that though an average person aged 30-45 wakes up by 5.59 am, he/she will not start there official duty until 8am or 9 am.

Instead of subjecting our morning to mindless works, there are  3 categories of activities that should define our morning. The first involves you cultivating career optimizing moring culture while the second should encompass activities beyond the primary personal care we owe our family, as well we should dedicate time to nurturing ourselves.

Furthermore, the last category involves activities where we should schedule ourselves to enjoy our hobby, meditate, workout and pray. This time frame is our me time. It goes a long way to define our output.

If we stick to an active early morning schedule we will be more productive.

More importantly, the most successful people know the essence of having a productive morning. And so, they have adopted good morning habits that would help them make headway while the average person is still struggling with basic morning hassles.

PepsiCo's founder CEO Steve Reinemund starts his day by doing 4 mile run on a treadmill by 5 am after which he embarks on a culmination of activities ranging from reading, praying, and meditating.

1.A matter of Willpower

The most successful people segment their days into activities. While this is given you have to agree that mornings are the most productive part of the day. It is difficult to replicate the same zeal and willpower that drives our morning for our afternoon tasks.

You would note that impulsive lapse is more common later part of the day. People in diet would most likely to break them in the evening since the willpower fizzles out with time. Also, a twitter analysis shows that people tend to use optimistic words in the wee hour of a day.

In other words, the capacity to make the right decision would naturally reduce as we take more tasks. So it is safe to say that moring is the time when your energy and willpower are fresh and high. We can take advantage of this by allocating self-reflective, critical, and body rejuvenating tasks on those hours.

Like our muscles, we can develop our willpower and make it strong, just as a bodybuilder takes the pain to bulk up, then maintain it. It is also possible to nurture self-discipline.

The proper morning rituals require an astounding amount of willpower.

2.Important but not urgent things

Now that the need for productive moring habits has been established what are the best activities we can assign to our morning. The best morning habits are not urgent activities but that are the important activities that would eventually find its way into our daily schedules. The best morning habits require self-motivation. They are long term rewarding activities that are not the habits that deliver immediate payoffs.

Unlike many of us, the most powerful people use this time to nurture their careers, relationships and improve on themselves.

Carrer

Successful people understand that those few hours in the morning is the best time to focus on work before everyone starts seeking your attention. By doing so you will remove the heavy lifting works from the task list.

Instead of using much of the day time going back and forth on social media or emails, get done your important tasks of the day in moring an then focus on non-trivial tasks.

Relationship

Naturally, we believe dinner time is the best time for families to bond. Contrary to this belief, exhaustion might make this unrealistic. Chances are we might get exhausted by evening and don't have the energy to give the best side of us to our loved ones. This leads to a family get together a bit cranky from the efforts of stressful hours at work.

So the early hours of the morning are an appropriate time to bond with family. We often filled with lots of positive energy after we leave our bed. That is the ideal time to take advantage of that state of mind and enjoy quality time with our spouse and children.

Nurturing yourself

Obviously, workouts are beneficial to our bodies.It s good to finish the most important task in the morning because we may not get time in the evening from our busy schedule.

Also, successful people use this time for prayer, meditation, reading. 

The most important question is to ask yourself: Are these activities helping you to create your to-do list and you get more value from each day?

3.How to create productive mornings

These are the steps to create the most productive morning.

1.Track your time

First find a way of tracking your daily activities, a week of tracking would be sufficient. Apparently, it is impossible to streamline our mornings without getting to know what we currently spend on them and why. Apart from tracking our mornings, it is crucial that you get your whole day logged on your word doc or diary.

This approach helps us link our moring impulses to other daily routines. For instance, an individual who stays up watching TV would tend to wake up to a chaotic morning. Tracking gives us a clear perspective of where we are right now and how can we get to the perfect morning we desire.

2.Picture the perfect morning

Before we start moving things around it is helpful to find the definition of the perfect morning. Do you believe that morning workouts should be a feature in your early morning routines or you are that person who wants to dedicate it to high-stake projects? It all depends on your personal definition, as there is no standard routine that you should incorporate-do what works for you.

3.Think through logistics

Furthermore, after deciding on the important details you need to integrate into your morning schedule, you have to make it happen. People often go through logistics and start pilling up excuses that could halt the entire process. Instead of focusing on the downside, you should forego the drawbacks and you could fast-track the process.

For some adjusting the bedtime could do the trick, while others would need the factor in their responsibilities as parents. Irrespective of challenges always focus on ways to make your morning ritual easier.

4.Build that habit

Rechanging your morning energy to productive activities is a vital and difficult part of the process. It will be easier if we adopt one habit at a time. Also, we should track our progress. It takes a while before these activities become a part of our mornings. the importance of the practice is the adoption phase that is the phase where we are at the risk of faltering.

Therefore we should take on the activities that we find interesting. By doing so we should have the motivation ourselves to stay on track. You can promise yourself a treat when you reach a milestone.

Don't box yourself that your morning rituals remain the same. You could instead adjust your rituals to confirm the reality of your new job, location, status, or responsibilities. the most crucial thing is that you make the best use of your morning.

Successful people know the essence of the morning and how their action or interaction, in the early hours, have come to define who they are. By now you must have gotten two or more ways to optimize your moring which will in turn revitalize your day. The key here is not how much you get done in the morning but the impact of each task you subject your mind to.

The wee hours are your nurturing time. Pick out the important details you want to improve about yourselves, and adopt the habits that would enforce this.