If your morning routine is that difficult to see through to the end, then it might be good to reevaluate and scale back the habits you are including. It should flow naturally from one habit to the next, so if your goal is to have it in it’s current form, the best way to achieve that is to scale it back to something easily manageable, then slowly reintroduce your other habits one at a time.
I’m the same way don’t beat yourself up.. progress is progress.. anything is better then nothing. For me I think Of this app as a game and I want to see what happens at the end so I try to use it and follow the steps but sometimes I mess up and that’s ok just try again
I have this problem all the time. It’s easy to set a plan but unfortunately for a plan to become a habit it’s difficult. My trick for not ruining my day is to have a good sleep the previous day. Just remember, before you sleep, always think of a good memory.
Is hard, what I found works the best for myself is three things: 1- Cut Distractions: Put your phone on airplane mode or find a way you don’t get distracted by the phone itself. Then if you have family around do a gathering and tell them, while I’ll be doing my morning routine just talk to me for a "good morning" but anything else it can wait until I’ve finished. 2- Time everything: Put an amount of time for every action that way you’ll see the sum of it and know where you have to finish approximately. If you see you always take me time then find which tasks are taking longer than you thought and adjust them until you find the real time for your routine. 3-Have an appointment: I found out that the days I had an appointment ,and I has to leave home let’s say at 9am, if my routine takes 1 hour,I would wake up at 7:50, and I would rock that day the morning routine as in my head I knew I couldn’t need with it. If you don’t have any appointment, you can try to fake it, either put a "celebration time" in your calendar as an event, and think at 9am I need to be by the car even though you don’t have, take it as a finish line. Finally, if you take longer, it’s okay sometimes it happens to me too, but is not a big deal, at the end you are doing great things for yourself and that’s beautiful!
Prioritize what is most important to you. Perhaps the routine is too long and you need to remove some activities…you can always add more once you have the shorter routine as a habit
Today is my fourth day in a row waking up early and getting things going. Five days ago, my wife gave me The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. The back cover made some almost ridiculous promises, but I am finding that the book is actually living up to all of them except one so far (and I haven’t even finished reading it yet). I would very strongly encourage you to check out www.MiracleMorning.com. If you decide to try it, and you want a Miracle Morning Accountability Partner, you can email me at Bratamoli@Gmail.com.
I wonder if you have a morning routine that goes beyond what you really need to start the day. Part of what was ppwerful for me about Fabulous was that I was completing small activities that helped me get my day off to a good start. Could you adjust your morning down to a few things that you need to focus on to get off to a good start?
I would shorten your list of goals and or the amount of time you plan to spend on each… pre prepare thoughts for a healthy breakfast so you are not wondering around the kitchen distracted by what you are going to have choose a 5 min work out instead of a 20 for the first few days make it you goal to just attempt to do your goals of you do not get to them or if you don’t do it to the extent you was planing its okay the idea is that you tried and thought about it the more you try and the more you think about it the closer you will get to it I made my list of goals for morning and evening but I did not complete them all until a week or two into setting them meaning I might of got 3 goals one day 5 the next day 0 goals done another but I kept waking up and trying and the dad I did not check eaxk one off I did not beat myself up about it just simple said tomorrow I’ll try again…. if your thoughts and your heart is in it your head and body will soon follow the key is not perfection but motivation and perseverance
I start with lower number of habits to begin with! Beat them down into a routine and then add others! Start small and get a taste of success! Proceed then with confidence!
Hey I have the same problem! Just go a little more easy on yourself! Take as long as you need to finish your routine. As long as you finish, that’s what counts
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