Make Your Day Powerful With This Morning Routine
The good news is, it’s surprisingly easy to make your morning make your day! Having a great morning can help improve stress, anxiety, and productivity. Have you created your morning routine yet?
The bonus morning routine benefits that I love:
- I feel more in control of my schedule
- I prioritize my time better
- I am nicer after having alone time ☺️
How to get started --
After I decided it was worth trying to be more intentional about my day by creating a morning routine, the first thing I did to determine how to set it up was to stop worrying about how all the “most successful people” in life start their mornings.
That +may seem bizarre. However, I am not going after being the most successful person. I am just a girl trying to make life’s simple (but important) things matter most. I just want to be successful at being me.
Caring for my well-being so that I would show up better to care for those that I love – that’s what motivated me.
I recognized no one needed me in the morning. So it made the decision easy to care for myself first thing each morning. (this is how I determine what matters most to me every 12 weeks)
What this looks like for me has, of course, grown as I have grown, but the basics that I wanted to be more consistent in included:
- prayer & scripture reading
- exercise
- feeling put together; ready to face the day without feeling rushed and overwhelmed or like I forgot something.
That’s where I started. I wanted to know that if the rest of the day was a bust that I, at the very least, made those things happen.
HERE'S WHERE I AM TODAY - AN f5 MORNING
Fast forward to today, and I’ve created small clusters of habits that make up my entire morning routine. I call this calendar time block my “f5 morning”.
(Each cluster inside my ‘f5 morning’ has a title that begins with the letter ‘f’ and defines what I do during that time.)
Here's What That Looks Like --
1. Fresh – brush teeth, wash face, listen to Bible plan, dress, hair, eyelashes (of course), 15 oz. water, supplements. 😊
2. Focus – journaling, morning mindset, planning (here’s the journal I created for planning & journaling)
3. Faith – worship music, prayer journaling routine, quiet meditation
4. Fitness – whatever type I plan for the day
5. Foundation – making the bed, coffee, resetting the house, finalizing the menu plan details for the day
Sometimes I add--
6. Flourish: often, I spend a little extra time on online courses, books, or podcasts.
Most days, I block time to do all of the above as my morning routine, but the smaller clusters allow me to be flexible when I need a little more sleep or it’s the weekend and I want to break it up throughout the day or skip a few. This has allowed me to be consistent in so many areas of discipline that I desired when I started.
These items are so foundational to me and together help me build momentum to make a better day.
Did you know tornadoes are measured like this?
A tornado’s strength is currently measured on what is called the Fujita Scale, which gives the tornado a rating from 0 to 5 based on estimated wind speeds and the severity of the damage.
I’ve experienced an F-5 before (1999 Moore, OK – listed as the most powerful measure of F-5); let me tell you, nothing was left untouched. I’ve decided that if I want to build momentum and make my day powerful, I want to have an f5 morning.
Start today --
Wonder what your morning might look like in a few years? What might your life look like if you start today? Start with the things that matter most for you, but that you’re finding it challenging to find the time to fit them in. Begin small and make it personal, or use my f5 morning.
I’d love to hear what you would change or add or what creative title evolves for you as this becomes second nature in your life.
Go make your morning routine to make your day, and in turn, your life!
