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What is Your Morning Ritual?

by Michael Harrington
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Hi All,
What is your Morning Ritual to get yourself in the right frame of mind for the day?

Do you repeat Affirmations?
Read a Positive Uplifting Book?
Meditate?
Read Intentions in front of a Mirror?
Listen to a Motivating AudioBook?

Love to hear what fellow Warriors do on a daily basis.......
#morning #ritual
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  • Profile picture of the author Just Jess
    Why anyone give away the programs they use to meditate or hypnotize themselves.

    I am only kidding. Faith and deep trance works for me in spite of the hours.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brackwom
    My morning ritual is listening to music.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    I don't sleep well, so I am up for a few hours before the sun, and very sleepy through the day because of it. If I don't have work, I tend to crash after lunch
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  • Profile picture of the author John Jonas Phil VA
    Getting on my exercise bike for at least 15 minutes. It gets my brain ready for the day.
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  • Profile picture of the author GordonJ
    "Well, I tumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen
    Pour myself a cup of ambition
    Yawn and stretch and try to come to life
    Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumping..."


    But unlike the Great Dolly P. who has her 9 to 5 workday ahead, I sit down at the computer to start my work day, I listen to 3 songs in this order:

    Juice Newton: Queen of Hearts
    Mary Chapin Carpenter: Down at the Twist and Shout.

    And then, twice play Todd Rundgren's classic: Bang on the Drum All Day

    The second time of BANG on the drum, is when I read my email and delete the SPAM.

    Puts me in a good frame of mind.

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    Originally Posted by Michael Harrington View Post

    Hi All,
    What is your Morning Ritual to get yourself in the right frame of mind for the day?

    Do you repeat Affirmations?
    Read a Positive Uplifting Book?
    Meditate?
    Read Intentions in front of a Mirror?
    Listen to a Motivating AudioBook?

    Love to hear what fellow Warriors do on a daily basis.......
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    I would want always to reconnect muh bones all straight, prime muh smile for sumone ain't musself, an' then try to stand the frick on up without seemin' all kinda ridickls.

    It is a balancin' act, I guess.

    Get it right, suddenly it is aftahnoon an' nowan cares.

    Before you know it, the Cosmos has burned to a cinder.

    That is why I spend time dowin' my (frankly lousy) hair, I guess.

    Oblivion has frequently been paused by random acts of self-applause.

    Meantime, ain't slumber's bouldah a weightier smack in the chops than evening's prissy friffle-fraffle?

    "NUTHIN' AIN'T HAPPENED YET. SO HERE'S MY TAKE."
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    I look at stock charts, that usually motivates me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
    I'm not sure I understand the question.

    i get up, feed the cats, get a shower (which is when I actually wake up fully), get dressed, and get to work.

    I don't need to get motivated, pumped up, or in the mood to produce.

    I went to bed wanting to get more done. I woke up ready to do it.

    Why would you ever be in a business that you consider drudgery?

    If you need motivation in the morning, a job will give you the fear of getting fired. That's a motivation that works.
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    • Profile picture of the author Odahh
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      I'm not sure I understand the question.


      If you need motivation in the morning, a job will give you the fear of getting fired. That's a motivation that works.
      Well if some want that kind of motivation. The job needs to be the only source of income. They have no savings or assets. And debt they are making payments on every month.

      Motivation is around making money to pay bill and not risk losing the stuff you bought with that debt.
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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
        Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

        Well if some want that kind of motivation. The job needs to be the only source of income. They have no savings or assets. And debt they are making payments on every month.

        Motivation is around making money to pay bill and not risk losing the stuff you bought with that debt.
        People need motivation to do something if;
        1) They don't want to do it. and..
        2) It isn't a habit.

        Why do I get up at 8AM? It's a habit. Why do I write at least 2 hours a day? (Not here), it's a habit.
        I exercise about 45 minutes a day. Yesterday I didn't. It bothered me all evening, and this morning. And then I exercised this afternoon. A habit. It's what I'm used to doing. No motivation necessary.

        Why are people late for work, on time, lazy, ambitious, kind, generous, stingy?

        These are all just habits formed over a lifetime, that eventually become primal needs.

        Think about this...

        If you want to improve an area of your life, you just need to change one thing you do...once. The next day it becomes a little easier to repeat your new habit.

        As daily attempts continue, your ability to do this new thing improves, and your desire to do it increases.

        That last part? That's what motivated me years ago to change a strong habit I had, that was costing me time and money. The knowledge that the attempts would get easier every day, and the desire to perform would increase every day...kept me going for a week, and then it was downhill from there.
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          Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

          People need motivation to do something if;
          1) They don't want to do it. and..
          2) It isn't a habit.
          Hi Claude. Just my 2C: Many times when a Person wants to do something -- like being a successful Entrepreneur (etc.) -- they have to develop and put in place the habits and that takes a certain amount of "will-power" (to begin with) which can be helped by starting the day in a positive manner. Personally I read a Personal Development book around mid-day partly because it keeps me somewhat "motivated." And for some People, they just like starting their day that way.

          That said, everyone is different, and so do what works for them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    Claude

    This is directed at you it seems your main habit it to stick to a schedule . So it really bothers you when you don't stick

    But if you had to adjust when things would get done you would adjust your schedule and be doing things at their new secduald times.

    Each of the things can be performed habitually but and this is critical you know exactly why you are doing them that way.

    To reference zig you are not cutting the end off your roast because 50 years ago your grandma had a small roaster and needed to cut the ends of.

    Many people have habits and have no idea where they came from. And in general confus habits with addiction based behaviors. It nicer to say I have a bad habit over I am addicted to.

    Habits put you on auto pilot addiction are for dopamine hits
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

      Each of the things can be performed habitually but and this is critical you know exactly why you are doing them that way.
      That's an insightful point.

      I had very few desirable habits growing up, or even as a young man. I had to force myself to slowly change the person I was. And because I was consciously changing my actions (which became habits), I knew the reasons, the motivations.

      But...that doesn't mean all my habits are like that. Habits are just actions without making a conscious decision.

      I have destructive and time wasting habits like anyone else.
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      • Profile picture of the author Odahh
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        That's an insightful point.

        But...that doesn't mean all my habits are like that. Habits are just actions without making a conscious decision.

        I have destructive and time wasting habits like anyone else.
        You can't play the like everyone else card .
        Most everyone else justifies their bad or destructive habits. With the story of "i work so hard in my miserable job . I deserve to do this thing to blow if steam and relax."

        Once the bills are mostly paid the rest of the money goes to bad habits.

        So the motivation is survival and coping not optimizing to have the best life
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          After reading about it in other threads in the WF, I decided it was time to start intermittent fasting - I thought that was going to be impossible for me, but as it turns out the human animal is an amazingly adaptive being.

          Also, I restarted doing "road work", and as Gary Halbert says, going for a walk or a jog early in the morning gives you a nice glow that will stay with you throughout the day.


          Lastly, after I got covid - 4 weeks ago - I started trying the Wim Hof Method (yeah including the cold showers), and oh boy what a way to make that "glow" really shine.

          In summary, I go for a light jog while fasted, then come home, do my breathing rounds and take a cold shower.

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  • Profile picture of the author JamesMill
    I wake up an hour before I actually plan to start working and always have a "slow" morning. It's something I learned with my wife who has being doing it religiously her whole life. I used to be go go go and that hour of drinking coffee and just zoning out for a bit helps significantly get me revved up for a solid day of working.

    ALSO I love this statement shift of "I got to work" to " I GET to work"

    You have to have that moment of gratitude each morning to help remember how wonderful it can be.
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