Daily Routines

You probably have a daily routine. If not, you’ve at least tinkered with different routines based on what you’ve read celebrities, CEOs, and other “successful” people do.?

Having a routine has many benefits, especially as your life gets more complicated with kids, entrepreneurship, or creating space for your passions. Having a routine may be the only way you can make sure you accomplish everything you’d like each day–I know a routine is important for me.

Although I need a routine to accomplish my daily to-do list, it’s been a process of experimenting to find the “right” routine for me.?

Toward the end of last year, I started waking up around 5:00 to have enough time to complete my breath work, meditate, and spend 20 minutes each on our Peloton and Tonal before getting into the morning routine of getting the boys ready for school. It took about a week to get used to getting up that early, and even during the getting-used-to-early-mornings phase, I felt energized for the day once I completed everything. The getting-up-when-the-alarm-went-off part was hard, but it was worth it for the rest of the day.

?Friendly tip: A little hack that worked to keep me from hopping back into bed was to brush my teeth as soon as I turned off my alarm. Once my teeth were brushed I was committed to the morning and would not sneak back to bed.

Lately, I’ve shifted my home workout to the afternoon or early evening to be able to sleep in longer. I was still getting everything in each day, maybe I’d miss a workout or two because of unexpected events that changed up my day, but I haven’t felt as good as I did with the early workouts.

• My energy level throughout the day was higher.
• I felt leaner and I swear my abs looked better.
• My evenings were less busy because I wasn’t squeezing in my workouts, allowing me to be more present with my family.

Realizing that I felt better with the old routine, this morning I got up at 5:15 to get back to the old routine––it was mainly how I felt physically that prompted the change.

Experimenting with your daily routine can help you find the routine that is best for you. Obviously, I should have stuck with the old routine but without changing it I would not have the confirmation that it is THE routine for me.

If you haven’t found that daily routine which allows you to feel your best, accomplish more, and be more present in the moment make some minor changes and pay attention to how you feel. Once you’ve found THE routine for you, use that as your foundation and iterate from there as life changes require adjustments.

See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,

JC

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