Start Your Day with a Morning Routine

Morning habits can make or break your day. Ditch Team Snooze Button and start your day like a fitness rockstar with your morning routine!

Check out these morning routine ideas to help you get your day started right!

Wake up early

Instead of running around frantically and caffeinated trying to get all the things done before you head out the door, try waking up earlier so you can move through your morning routine with grace and ease.

When you wake up early, you're more likely to have time to yourself to focus on your goals without interruption from family, partners, or work related interruptions.

And yes, this means you're going to want to turn off Netflix and your all your other screens a little bit earlier now so you can be ready to K.O. at a decent time.

Hydrate. Hydrate. Hydrate.

Let's jumpstart your metabolism and flush out those toxins first thing in the morning!

Drink a tall glass (or two) of room temperature warm BEFORE pumping yourself with your morning cup of Joe.
Try drinking a cup of warm water with a squeeze of lemon to wake up your liver and stimulate bile and stomach acids for ideal digestion. It also helps to "get things moving" if you catch my drift.

Make Your Bed

Psychologically, making your bed before you get the day started helps you get into the energy of getting things done.

No negotiating with yourself over whether you feel like it or not. No procrastinating.

So make your momma proud and start your day off with an easy win!

Meditate

The early morning is very peaceful, still, and quiet time. It's much more likely that you can stick to a morning meditation routine compared to that of an afternoon or evening routine.

How you start your day is how you live your day- so let's start if off with peace, clarity, and a sense of being grounded.

Embrace the quiet mornings by listening to the birds starting to chirp or quietly watching the sun rise over the horizon. Or simply observe your breathe for 5 minutes.

If you're new to meditation, find a guided meditation video on YouTube or try "box breathing" for 3 minutes. Gradually increase your time spent in meditation and you'll be a seasoned meditator before you know it!

Journal

Take this time to:

write a gratitude list.
dream of your ideal life, day, business, fitness goals, financial goals, etc. It's important that we pull ourselves out of the daily grind and give ourselves time and space to envision where we want to go.
do a brain dump. I'm sure you've got a lot going on up there. Clear up some space in your mind by getting all of your thoughts down on paper.
find clarity on the top goals for the day, week, or month. Take this morning time to check in with yourself and your progress on these goals. This could be exploring what the goals are, why you want them, what limiting beliefs are coming up, and a better feeling belief that you can replace it with.

Have a Healthy Breakfast

Unless your intermittent fasting (then you can ignore this one).

Whatever you do, don't start your day off with a sugar rush followed by the dreaded sugar crash. Your mood, waistline, and health will thank you!

Prep Your Food For The Day

This could look like slicing some cucumbers for a healthy snack later, making your post-workout smoothie, or measuring out your portions for your meals later in the day.

Remember, a failure to plan is a plan to fail.

Get Moving

Whether you decide to stretch, take Sniffsalot for walk, roller skate, or hit the gym, find something that you enjoy doing every morning and commit to it. 💪

You don't have to stay to stay committed to that one thing forever, but try committing to it for at least one season. You never know what you're going to love!

Morning Routines Can Be A Game Changer

Get ahead of your day by creating a morning routine that sets you up for success from the start.

Routines help us reduce decision fatigue and puts us on the road to success before we ever even open our inbox or get the day started.

If you're looking for accountability and really determined to get back on track with a fitness routine, check this out!

For more awesome fitness tips and real talk, come hang out with me on Instagram! I'd love to connect with you over there! 🤗

Lindsay