What helps me wake up early???
It’s simple, I LOVE what I do!!!
It lights me up!!!
Most days I wake up BEFORE my 5 am alarm because I am just bursting with ideas!!!
But it wasn’t always this way!!!
I went through a serious funk for well over a year!!!
And it was right at the same I had decided to start coaching from home full time.
All of a sudden I had no pressure of being somewhere on someone else’s schedule.
And while that seemed like an amazing thing at the time, it turns out I needed that time frame!
Without it, I started letting myself sleep later, because I didn’t HAVE to wake up at 5 am.
But then 5 became 6, which became 7, which became me still sleeping when my kids were waking up at 7:30!!!
Let me tell you, that started the day in a 100% reactive state and it was not pretty.
It was rushing, and shouting, and frustration, on both ends.
And it took me a long time to pull myself out of that cycle.
It wasn’t like I didn’t WANT to get up and get my stuff done, I just knew I didn’t HAVE to.
That I could do it later.
Which was all the excuse I needed when the alarm went off.
Snooze, snooze, turn it off.
So how was I able to turn it around???
How am I able to wake up excited again??
Well, it took WORK!!!
Asking for HELP!!
And PRACTICE!!!
And it took, not beating myself up if I did sleep through my alarm.
Because I do LOVE sleep!!
Truth be told, most nights I crawl into bed as soon as I finish reading the kids their Harry Potter chapter.
It’s taken me a while to realize how much sleep I actually need, and if that means 9 pm is bedtime, that’s ok with me.
Creating a morning routine that I enjoyed was the first step in taking my mornings back!
The Miracle Morning was a HUGE help!!!!
It helped me learn the foundation of a morning routine.
Silence
Affirmations
Visualization
Exercise
Reading
Scribing
It’s simple, I LOVE what I do!!!
It lights me up!!!
Most days I wake up BEFORE my 5 am alarm because I am just bursting with ideas!!!
But it wasn’t always this way!!!
I went through a serious funk for well over a year!!!
And it was right at the same I had decided to start coaching from home full time.
All of a sudden I had no pressure of being somewhere on someone else’s schedule.
And while that seemed like an amazing thing at the time, it turns out I needed that time frame!
Without it, I started letting myself sleep later, because I didn’t HAVE to wake up at 5 am.
But then 5 became 6, which became 7, which became me still sleeping when my kids were waking up at 7:30!!!
Let me tell you, that started the day in a 100% reactive state and it was not pretty.
It was rushing, and shouting, and frustration, on both ends.
And it took me a long time to pull myself out of that cycle.
It wasn’t like I didn’t WANT to get up and get my stuff done, I just knew I didn’t HAVE to.
That I could do it later.
Which was all the excuse I needed when the alarm went off.
Snooze, snooze, turn it off.
So how was I able to turn it around???
How am I able to wake up excited again??
Well, it took WORK!!!
Asking for HELP!!
And PRACTICE!!!
And it took, not beating myself up if I did sleep through my alarm.
Because I do LOVE sleep!!
Truth be told, most nights I crawl into bed as soon as I finish reading the kids their Harry Potter chapter.
It’s taken me a while to realize how much sleep I actually need, and if that means 9 pm is bedtime, that’s ok with me.
Creating a morning routine that I enjoyed was the first step in taking my mornings back!
The Miracle Morning was a HUGE help!!!!
It helped me learn the foundation of a morning routine.
Silence
Affirmations
Visualization
Exercise
Reading
Scribing
They don’t have to be in that order, but they have all become a part of my morning routine.
But just knowing what to do wasn’t enough for me.
I still kept telling myself I could do it later.
This is where Mel Robbins - 5 Second Rule saved me!!!
It was her book that actually taught me how to launch myself out of bed!!
Again, it wasn’t overnight.
And I had to give myself grace on the days I slept, but overtime I have been able to create a routine that works for me!
This is what my mornings look like now.
The Five Minute Journal - my morning gratitude, goals and affirmations to start my day
Wake up juice - aka my plant based pre workout
Personal development - currently rereading Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Habits with the ladies in my Diamond Internship
My laptop - that enables me stream my workouts and build this business in my workout clothes
The Step - to help me #Riseup and Transform
My Tracker - the only way to know your are making progress is to know where you started from
Wifi - so I can reach all of you from the comfort of my home.
If you are struggling with your morning routine, I encourage you to check out Miracle Morning.
It was a game changer for me!!
And now, like I said, I’m actually awake before my alarm and excited for my day!!
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