Makeover Your Morning Mini-Challenge – Day 6
With your new morning game plan figured out, it’s time to not only put it into action but make it your new morning routine. Why is this important? Because you want to make sure your new plan happens every morning without fail and turning it into a routine is the best way to make sure that happens.
Power of Habits
Before something becomes a habit or a routine, it takes a lot of willpower to make things happen. That’s the energy that you will need for other things throughout your morning and the busy rest of the day.
Yes, it will take some willpower, mental energy, and drive at first to create the new morning habits, but once they are set, it will become automatic like brushing your teeth before bed.
Once you come up with a good working morning routine, stick to it for a few weeks. That’s the best way to turn it into a strong habit. Before long, it will feel like the new normal and you no longer have to remind yourself to do each thing along the way.
It will have to become a habit and a routine you’ll follow automatically. It will take a lot less effort and mental pep-talk to get things done. Even if your new routine includes a 30-minute run, or getting up at the crack of dawn to work on your most important business task for an hour.
Get Back On Track
Watch out for moments when you slip back into your old habits and routines. It’s going to happen.
The key is to catch it early and get back on track as quickly as possible. For example, let’s say you’ve been doing well with waking up 30 minutes earlier and going for a run before you start your day.
Then one day you oversleep and can’t make it out there. Or the weather turns too bad, you get sick or hurt, or something else pops up that keeps you from going on that run. That’s life. It happens. What’s important is what you decide to do the next morning.
Your most important job whenever life gets in the way of your new morning routine is to get back on track as quickly as possible. Do what you can as soon as you notice the disruption. If the weather is bad, do a quick workout at home, or head to the gym to run on the treadmill.
If you overslept, try to squeeze in a few minutes of meditation or do something to grow your business before you get back to the rest of your day. Most importantly get back on track with your regular morning routine as soon as possible.
Get back into your new habits the next morning if at all possible.
Actively remind yourself to get back on track for a few days until the routine is firmly back in place. You’ll be glad you did when you start to see the results you’ve been hoping for.
Why Do We Need Habits?
Habits are powerful because of neurological cravings. Habits work through the habit loop: 1: Cue, 2: Routine, 3: Reward. The automatization of your actions frees up energy that can be used to focus on other tasks. Take control over your habits: Your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits anyway.
Habits are essential to our health. They can make or break your chances of achieving and maintaining your lifestyle goals such as sticking to an eating plan, exercising regularly, and managing diabetes/other medical conditions, Good habits also increase the quality of life and promote longevity.
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