Go for a brisk walk around your neighborhood, or get some sun, fresh air, and exercise at a nearby park or beach. Journal or write morning pages, which involves penning a stream of consciousness in your journal and filling three pages every morning, to help you reflect, analyze, and ideate.
'That girl' wakes up at 6 am (at the latest), puts on her matching lululemon workout fit, drinks a healthy juice alongside a glass of lemon water, meditates, goes to the gym, and eats lots of green vegetables all before completing a week's worth of to-do lists before 9am.
Put simply, the 'miracle morning' routine involves: meditation, affirmations, visualisation, writing, reading and exercise. One of the things I love most about The Miracle Morning is how flexible it is: you can do it for a whole hour, or for 6 minutes or anywhere in between.
"As soon as you wake up after a night of sleep, you should get out of bed. If you lie awake in bed, your brain links being awake to being in bed," according to Professor Matthew Walker from University of California Berkeley.
Since your mind is fresh, you are well rested and ready for a new day and a new set of challenges, reading in the morning can help you learn more, quicker. You will retain more information and you will find it a lot easier to understand new concepts.
Staying in Bed Too Long: If you wake up during the night and cannot fall back asleep, experts recommend getting out of bed after 15 to 30 minutes. To help your brain associate your bed with sleeping rather than with being awake, you want to avoid lying awake in bed for too long.
Making Your Own Morning Routine. Those are the “big three” morning rituals that all successful people share. Wake up early, exercise and eat your frogs. There is a lot of room to play around with your morning routine.
That said, science has indicated that learning is most effective between 10 am to 2 pm and from 4 pm to 10 pm, when the brain is in an acquisition mode.
Caffeine and sugar can increase anxiety symptoms. But low blood sugar due to a lack of food can make anxiety symptoms worse. If you go to bed worrying or wake up during the night with anxious thoughts, you are likely to feel anxious and concerned about your day in the morning.
Sleep inertia, or wake-up grogginess, is the main reason you're unable to fully wake up in the morning or after a nap. It's a completely normal part of your sleep-wake cycle that's intensified by factors like high sleep debt and circadian misalignment (caused by sleeping in, social jetlag, and travel jet lag).
"Most people hit their deepest sleep between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m.," says WebMD sleep expert Michael Breus, PhD, D, ABSM, "so it's very hard to wake up during that time."
If your school or work schedule requires you to be up between 5:00 and 7:00 a.m., these are the suggested bedtimes: School-age children should go to bed between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Teens should try to go to bed between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. Adults should try to go to sleep between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m.
You may be too exhausted even to manage your daily affairs. In most cases, there's a reason for the fatigue. It might be allergic rhinitis, anemia, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic kidney disease, liver disease, lung disease (COPD), a bacterial or viral infection, or some other health condition.
Finding the right morning routine doesn't need to be challenging, but making small, simple steps to improve each day will ultimately lead to higher productivity and happiness in the long run. Taking these simple habits will help you have the best morning ever and find the perfect start to your day.
Sitting in silence and enjoying a cup of coffee or tea is a nice easy, relaxing way to begin a morning ritual. Drinking coffee in the morning helps to jumpstart your day and having this in quiet peace sounds so luxurious! It can be as simple as that. Oftentimes, we skip right to coffee. Make sure to drink water first!
