10 Things Everyone Should Do After Waking Up
Life is busy. There are good days and dreadful days. We all strive towards the best versions of ourselves but it takes conscious effort to doing so, even much more at the point of waking up.
As Napoleon Hill said,
”If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."
It is very much the little things at the start of your day that makes up for a greater day.
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Building Your Early Morning Habits
This article is meant to be honest and easy towards people, very much like me, who are striving towards making each day pleasant and creating good habits for ourselves, moving inches daily towards a bright future.
With these simple habits, you will take responsibility of your own destiny and get in the zone of living every moment of your life in your own terms
Your life is about to change with these simple routine.
1. Drink Water
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The simplest, but often overlooked.
Drinking water in the mornings to get your body started kickstarts your metabolism and refreshes you after hours of fasting on water. It flushes out your toxins and hydrates you to start on a day.
Consider a simple daily investment in your health against negative ailments.
2. Tidy Your Bed
According to US Naval Admiral William McRaven, “If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day.
It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.
By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter.”
The habit of making your bed is related with a sense of greater self and higher productivity.
Start your day right with one thing and every thing else will naturally fall into place.
3. Move Your Body
If you want to be among the healthy, happy and productive people in the world, get in the habit of regular exercise.
Stretching or exercising helps to wake those sleepy muscles up and get the blood flowing, signalling your body to get ready for the day.
Personally, physical activity in the morning has also generated a flow of creative inspiration and clarity for me.
Exercise has been related to decreases in depression, anxiety and stress.
With good health comes great things.
4. Get Your Tunes on
There’s no better way to lift your spirits up than hearing your favourite morning tunes. It is about getting the good vibes and the good feelings in your head right off the bat.
Music is related to reducing stress and anxiety and mood elevation.
Being happier in the morning can only good vibes all day long.
5. Take a Cold Shower
This might sound like a terrible idea. However, our body’s shock response increases our oxygen intake and heart rate, releasing a blood rush through our entire body.
Having taken cold showers have always felt very cleansing to me, and given me a rush of energy and inspiration that I am grateful for.
6. Have a Hearty Breakfast
Sounding a bit cliche, but it is a hard fact that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The reason is literally in its name, break fast. As our body fasted for the past 6-8 hours, it needs fuel to function.
Thus, having a good and healthy breakfast when waking up is key to keeping us rejuvenated for a brand new day.
Everyone likes someone who is well-fed and filled with energy to get on with the day.
7. Write a Short Note
A popular routine amongst famous authors, the subconscious mind works during your sleep and writing it down in the morning would encourage your mind to stay creative. It is also known to help calm and keep you more at peace with yourself.
This exercise is meant to write down persisting thoughts and open our minds up to new and exciting possibilities ahead.
8. Review Your Life Vision
Write down your goals, long term and short term. Take a few minutes everyday to read your life vision will put your day into perspective.
Doing this exercise daily will make you thing about your life goals daily and spend your days working towards them.
Eventually, these goals will, without a doubt, manifest.
9. Read
The world’s greatest successes are known to be prolific readers. One shared habit between all of them is that they are constantly learning.
Making your commute time useful every morning is to read books or listen to audiobooks.
Over time, you will have read hundreds of books and your knowledge would have expanded tenfold. Your perspective of the world would be more well-informed too.
10. Smile and Love Yourself
Lastly, take the time to smile and feel love for yourself. We all want to make a difference in this world to prove our existence. But the first thing that needs to take place in our lives is that we need to make sure we smile and love ourselves.
Open your day up to more tranquility and potential, smile as if today is your best day ever.
Conclusion
These small habits will inch you towards your dreams no matter how your day goes.
You will excel in your relationships. You will be happier. You will be more bold and daring.
You will have a more positive perspective in life and things will not get your spirits down. You will always have a stronger foundation to fall back on.
The world and universe will respond to you in reflection of the beauty you bring to it.
