3 simple morning rituals for everyone for a good start of the day
This blog post answers the following questions:
- What are three simple morning rituals that can help start the day on a positive note?
- Why is hydration an important part of a morning ritual?
- What are some simple exercises that can help wake up the body and promote a willingness to act?
- How can affirmations and goal-setting be incorporated into a morning routine?
- How much time does it take to complete these three morning rituals?
In this post, I will show you 3 simple morning rituals and I will tell you why a good start of your day is so important. You will learn how to develop these morning rituals on the example of my morning habits developed over the years. To design my morning rituals, I largely based on the morning habits of successful people.
3 simple morning rituals — why is it worth it?
I can tell you right away, yes — it makes sense and really works well. I will not present you here complicated exercises and strange rituals to perform every morning. However, I will show you very simple and fast ways to start each day in a good mood with an attitude to action. You don’t have to take long walks or do very complicated things — just take care of the basic needs of your body and you’ll get positive mindset for the coming day. This will change your thinking throughout all day, and this will lead to real actions and change your life in the long term.
My morning rituals take about 10 minutes and consist of 3 simple and pleasant tasks, which are always performed immediately after waking up. Here are my 3 simple morning rituals:
- Hydration
Right after waking up, your body is very dehydrated after the night. Your body then demands fluids and the first thing you should do is to supply your body with water. I always drink a minimum glass of water with lemon juice. It is worth adding lemon juice to the water, because then you supply your organism with a dose of vitamin C and the lemon water tastes just much better.
- Simple exercises
Once you hydrated your body, you have to warm it up. The water itself will not wake you up well and therefore you need very simple exercises that will get you on your feet. You don’t have to go running or go to the gym. The purpose of simple morning exercises is to get every part of your body moving — see the video below where I show the simple exercises that I do every day. These exercises will make you almost immediately wake up and feel a willingness to act.
- Motivation (affirmations) + your goals + day plan
Once your body is hydrated and your muscles warmed up, it’s time for a little incentive gymnastics for your head. I strongly encourage you to purchase a planner and an empty notebook. Save your tasks for each week in the planner (I highly recommend you get one with a weekly schedule so that you always make your plans weekly). In a separate notebook, save your long-term goals and motivating sentences, i.e. affirmations. You can also save your business ideas in this notebook as well. I always have a planner and a notebook with me.
Affirmations — these are nothing but sentences that motivate you to act and positively encourage you to live. I write my affirmations and regularly add new ones all the time — sometimes I hear something smart from someone on YouTube, sometimes I write myself a quote from a book, sometimes I even write down my thoughts. It is very important that affirmations work on you and motivate you to act. These may even be the simplest sentences, like “Don’t give up!”. It may even be a morning prayer lifting up the spirit. I encourage you to work on your favourite affirmations on your own, but of course you can borrow them from someone. See my clip about the morning rituals where I show some of my affirmations.
Your goals — having goals is the best motivation in the long term. Goals give meaning to our daily routines. Affirmations, on the other hand, are a brilliant instant motivation. However, well-established goals will allow you to persist over a long period of time in your activities. In your notebook, save your goals for the next year and split them into stages. I know this may not be easy, and maybe you won’t be able to do it right away. However, once you have those goals written down, read them every morning and you’ll be surprised how easily you achieve them.
Morning rituals — write your goals every day
Plan of the day — in a planner with a weekly schedule, write down the most important task to be performed every day. Every morning, check what you have to do on a given day and note it in your planner. Of course, it is best to do it earlier and have your tasks written down in advance. Then, your every day will be ordered, and you will always do what you have to do. It is easier to get done well-planned tasks. This way, your life will then go in a good and planned direction every day.
3 simple morning rituals take only 10 minutes a day
All these steps should not take you more than 10 minutes each day. Consciously starting your day in this way will provide you with a positive start and direct you towards your goals and dreams because you will begin the day full of energy, keeping your goals and dreams in front of you. You will be motivated to work towards these goals and dreams. Good luck!
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MORNING ROUTINE for everyone, or how to start your day well? — watch the video
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Hi! I’m Tomek. From Waiter To Millionaire.
Welcome to this video.
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Today I’m in the Beskids and we’ll
discuss my 3 simple morning routines
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which are going to make your life better
and direct you in the nice direction.
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Are morning rituals
important in our lives?
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Probably many of you have heard
about such rituals
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and whether they’re worth doing.
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For me, they really are
and they don’t have to be fancy.
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Many people think
that they’re difficult,
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like long walks, running,
going to gym, reading lots of books.
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No. I’ll show you simple rituals
that you can do in 5-10 minutes,
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which will help you
start a day in a good way.
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They won’t consume much time and energy.
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Let’s start. 3 simple rituals
that I do everyday and you can too.
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From today or tomorrow.
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First ritual – hydration.
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Right after getting up,
your body wants water,
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as you didn’t drink all night,
so to refresh and start a day,
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you simply need to drink water.
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I’ve prepared for you a normal water.
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You should drink water
with lemon juice or mineral.
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Not necessarily just tap water,
as it’s not tasty.
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But if you make yourself a nice drink
with water and lemon juice,
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you’ll hydrate nicely.
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You can even drink two glasses
in order to feel good.
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It’ll refresh your mind.
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Don’t start your day with coffee,
but a glass of water.
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Only then comes the time
for anything else.
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That’s the first, very simple ritual.
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The second thing to do in order to
wake up are simple exercises.
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As I’ve said before, you don’t have to
go for long walks,
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get up at five o’clock,
run, go to the gym.
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You can do it, but later.
Not as a morning ritual.
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It’s worth to do some
simple exercises in 4 minutes.
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I won’t show you
a whole round of exercises,
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but you should stretch a bit
in the morning,
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turn your head like that
10 times in each direction,
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move your hips, do a few bends.
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Sacrifice just 3 minutes for it.
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In addition to these simple exercises,
I always do 10 push-ups,
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which I won’t show you due to my injury.
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But in addition to such push-ups,
it’s worth doing 10 simple squats.
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After such 3 minutes and hydration
you’ll see how cool you’re gonna feel
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and how awakened you’ll become
without a coffee.
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You’ll wake up within 5 minutes
and be ready for the final stage,
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which is very important.
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Third stage,
last morning ritual is motivation.
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This stage consists of 3 things –
motivation, that is, affirmations.
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reading your goals and plans for the day.
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I highly recommend that
you buy a schedule.
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Such a schedule with
a weekly or yearly plan.
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A schedule and an empty
notebook in which you’ll make notes.
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In such a blank notebook,
write down simple goals
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for this year, for example.
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Then, look at them every morning.
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Once you’ve done the previous steps –
hydration and exercises –
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take a look at such a notebook
and see your goals
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for the near future, for this year,
divide these goals,
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so that your mindset simply
shifts to achieving these goals.
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Don’t be afraid to set big,
major goals,
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but you need to
remind yourself of them everyday.
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Another thing is to plan your day.
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Here we need a schedule.
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Ideally, it should be
a schedule with a weekly plan.
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Such a schedule
has columns for a whole week
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which you complete regularly,
so that you know what to do.
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You don’t think about
your tasks and places to be –
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just write down goals for the week
and each day, then tick them off.
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After morning rituals and breakfast,
move to action and achieve goals
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for a given day and your day
will be nicely arranged.
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If you write down the goals,
you’ll probably do them.
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The last thing in this third routine
are affirmations.
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Maybe you think that
affirmations are pointless.
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But I can tell you that
they make a lot of sense.
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You can write them in a notebook.
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By the way, I publish
this notebook on Amazon,
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these types of products,
very simple, often empty.
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I only did the cover and the inside.
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You can sell hundreds of such
simple products on Amazon.
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I talk about it in other videos,
so check them out.
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It’s my product
and you can find it on Amazon.
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Back to the topic of affirmations –
you can write them in your notebook,
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but I wrote in my schedule, various
motivational phrases, affirmations,
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which I found in the books,
some conclusions,
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or from other YouTube videos,
people that I’m following,
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or often they’re just my thoughts.
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Having such a morning ritual,
I read these affirmations.
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I wrote down, for example,
to never give up.
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Or what is personal development,
so I read everyday that
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it’s not about reading books
and going to trainings,
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but acting,
getting out of the comfort zone.
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I wrote that taking action means that
if I want to have something,
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I do things I’m afraid of.
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What else I’ve written
for a good start of day, let’s see.
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I’ve written in English,
for example, “take action”.
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Take matters into your own hands.
Nothing’s gonna change without action.
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Also “do your best and
don’t care what the people say”.
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There are various affirmations
that I’ve written over the course of
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months or even years.
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You need to come up with
your own affirmations.
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You don’t have to fill
the entire notebook in one day,
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but buy a schedule, a notebook
and write even one sentence a day,
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which you find somewhere
and then start repeating it.
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If you do this, you’ll start each day
with a belief in your powers to act.
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Remember that a simple 5-10 minutes
in the morning dedicated to
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taking care of your body,
so that you awake,
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and reminding yourself of
your goals for a week, a day,
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and also motivating with affirmations
will lead you towards your goals.
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If the goals and activities for
this week, year will be written
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and you’ll be motivated,
then everyday, more or less,
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you will pursue
these goals even subconsciously.
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After a few months, a year,
you’ll be surprised that these
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small and big goals
will be coming to fruition.
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You can achieve miracles if you set
yourself everyday in the right direction.
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Decide what you want,
do the morning rituals.
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I’ve been doing it for a long time
with great results.
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