Your Morning Really Matters

We recently had a great guest on our Mind Opening Dialogues tele-class. Valkyrie Lang shared her great insights about how to manage work / life balance. I share a link here to get access to the recording so you can hear all 4 key strategies that she uses to be a happy single Mom, Top Producer, Community Volunteer and Entrepreneur – with the same 24 hours a day that you and I have! Here’s the link – and I share her favorite strategy below – how to manage your morning to set yourself up for success.

Start Quietly A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine profiles several famous business people and how they organize their mornings. Richard Branson, Virgin Companies Founder and Chairman, shares that  "I find the period of quiet, before most of the world logs on, to be great time to catch up on news and reply to emails," the Virgin Group founder writes in a post on Virgin.com. "These early hours give me the opportunity to start each day with a fresh and organized slate". He starts his days the same way and finds a quiet, peaceful and organized beginning helps set a great tone for each day.

Earn The Sunrise If you follow Jocko Willink on Instagram,  this former Commander of a highly decorated Navy Seal Team will often show an image of his beat-up wristwatch – with the time he started his day with morning exercise – typically 4:30 AM. Success magazine spoke with Jocko about why he organizes his morning by first “Earning The Sunrise”.  He believes that physical and mental toughness is a virtue that one should deliberately cultivate in order to successfully meet the demands of life. It worked for him as a Seal, and it works today as a sought-after security consultant and YouTube Entrepreneur.

She Rocks Her World – By Design Valkyrie Lang, our recent guest, shared with us 4 key strategies for managing the important balance between work and a personal life.  Again – listen to her here. Valkyrie uses a golden morning routine that generated not only peace of mind, a continuity of purpose to kick start her day, but had a great side-effect: 3x the income! Yep. She tripled her income in the first six months of this practice called the Miracle Morning. Her chat with us reminded our listeners that we can design our morning routine – and end up re-designing our lives for the better.

However you choose to start your day – this collection of successful morning plans all invite you to begin your day with intention. I am confident that you’ll like the results you get!