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Aaron O'Leary

How do you normally start your mornings?

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Morning routines are super important at least for me anyway. I typically start mine with a coffee and 30 mins offline so reading a book normally.
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Yogi
I usally wake up at 7:00, I will start my mornings with my plants around my home because watching green is very good for our eyes. - 8:00 AM to 8:30 AM Check my Todolist of the day in Taskord - https://taskord.com and add some todos - 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Turn on Spotify and start working on my product the Taskord itself πŸ˜… and some office works - 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM Mostly office works - 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM Some exercise - 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Concentrate more on my side projects and family time - 11:00 PM to 12:00 AM Netflix / Youtube and Sleep This my daily routine πŸ˜…! PS: After typing those I read the question again, @aaronoleary asked only the morning rituals!!!!
Aaron O'Leary
@bigint LOL, the whole day ritual is important too haha!
Nathan Svirsky
Go for a quick walk. If you're like me and kinda new to the whole working from home thing, it has transformed my day and relationship to my workspace. I've found that it ticks a lot of boxes for me: 1) Wakes me up with immediate purpose. 2) Fresh air is really underrated - especially in the morning! 3) Gets my heart pumping and body in motion. 4) Helps to reinforce my work / life balance. Once you're done, grab a coffee β˜•, sit at your desk πŸ–₯️ and get the day started πŸ’ͺ
Aaron O'Leary
@nathansvirsky Yeah walks are great, especially like them during the colder weather, brisk air wakes you up better than any coffee
Nathan Svirsky
@aaronoleary I live in London. Can confirm cold weather does help! πŸ˜†
Aaron O'Leary
@nathansvirsky Haha, living in Ireland so I'm right there with you! :D
Lauren McNeely
@nathansvirsky Totally agree - getting outside and doing something active is a game changer, especially these days! Nothing helps clear your head like a good walk, run, or hike.
Gabe Perez
I try to keep 3 things consistent to start my day - Stretching - Coffee/water - Note of what I want to accomplish this day & week
Jacqueline von Tesmar
Nurse baby Take baby for a walk Feed baby breakfast Stretch Brush my teeth Start work If I remember, choosing my top 2 goals of each day is really helpful. This makes me feel like I've accomplished my main objectives of the day.
Hannah S Kim
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Manuela BΓ‘rcenas
I recently got the 5-minute journal and I'm really happy with it :) I love starting my mornings with a glass of lemon water + my journal. Anyone else journaling here?
Alexandra Cote
I have a weird habit of doing all the work in the morning. I also have my smoothie [breakfast] as I work. I'm curious if there's anyone who had this same habit and then switched to a more mindful morning practice.
Sharon Cohen
I follow the Miracle Morning routine (book). 1. Meditation 2. Affirmations 3. Visualization 4. Reading something new 5. Yoga 6. Journaling Each takes about 5-10 mins. The whole point is to have a productive, quiet morning before starting to work. This is because the way you feel in the morning is how you're going to feel for the rest of your day. My days aren't always quiet, but they sure are productive.
Sharon Cohen
@ashley_hamilton1 go for it! I also know that you can get the Miracle Morning ebook for free on Amazon. It will change your life!
Damir Pervan
1. Pray for 10 min and expressing gratitude 2. Smoothie 3. Meditate for 15 min using Calm 4. Write down my goals and my targets for the day 5. Read a book for 30 min 6. Workout session- 1.30 h 7. Start-up work...
Aaron O'Leary
@damir_pervan I like the praying part. Not very religious myself but have found it to be quite meditative.
Marisa Harrington
@damir_pervan I love the praying aspect as well! I have a daily devotional book that I read every morning which gets me off to a great start. It immediately begins my day with gratitude
Ronan Wall
Mornings are all about getting my little girl up and ready for day care. Gives me good perspective on life before I get into my personal passion
Eddie H.
Now that the kids are in school, 7 - 9:30 AM is spent getting them ready and driving them to school. It's been hard because I'm a night person and tend to stay up until 1 or 2 AM on some nights. In reality, I need to go to bed much sooner and wake up earlier. My most recent routine is to spend my 15 minute drive home to think about the work ahead of me, solve some problems, think about strategies for my startup. Other than that - coffee. Tried tea but went back to coffee.
Debajit Sarkar
By setting concrete goals for the day. Setting goals specific to the day puts everything into motion. Having concrete goals that can be narrowed down to a few achievable ones that can be broken down into steps correlates with huge increases in confidence and feelings of control.
Micah Carroll
Honestly always with lighting incense, and my morning coffee (black) β˜•οΈ (with a side of ambient music)
Gordian Overschmidt
Spending quality time with my family: setting up the table, talking about the things to come and most important SMILE at each other and into the day!
Brady LewisπŸ€–
I like to start the day with a long shower that I treat somewhat like my meditation time. I reflect on the previous day and start planning my current day.
Henry Dobson
I don't. I'm a night owl so I don't get up until noon and start my work day in the afternoon usually. I cook, workout, chill, and after that I start working. Works perfect for me!
Mr Ethar Alali
I need to get better at it again. It used to be light breakfast (cereals), walk or gym, sh*t-shower-shave (3S), get dressed, work. Now, with lockdowns, it's bathroom, lay down again for 30 minutes and HootSuite my social media for the day, emails, shower and code/data/business development/strategy, depending on the day. During lockdown, and after a couple of injuries last year, I found the lack of gym access frustrating at first. I just kept putting on weight. However, that rest did my injuries the world of good and I was then nominated for a 25 press-ups for 25 day challenge and tried to over-achieve on that as much as I could (as press-ups are easy). Some days I'd do 50 straight, some days one armed, some days get 100 to 200 in etc. Did well to lose a few pounds. I should set those as goals on here. So I keep doing it :-D
Theresa Little
My morning starts with exercise, coffee, and a smile :) I think that it is the most important part of a day so trying to spend it with positive.
Aaron O'Leary
@theresalittle Aw, a smile can do so much to start your day off right! Love this
Ashley Hamilton
@theresalittle I love how you try to start your day being positive! This literally can change your whole day!
Jeremy Mendoza
The book "Miracle Morning" by Hal Elrod is a game changer if you need a winning routine. Been following these steps for years and have never felt better since!
Lorthemar Theiron
So many inspiring routines. I used to be quite productive in the mornings. Nowadays it's crawling out of bed, opening my PC and preparing coffee in the meantime. I had a serious injury 2 months ago. I can do even basic exercises, won't be able to for a couple more months. That has made me let go of my morning routines. I still do an afternoon walk for 30 mins just to have some sort of activity.