Designing my Morning Routine
The importance of routines cannot be overstated. Particularly starting the day well can mean how you set the tone for the day.
With mix of lucks and some will power, I am able to bring myself to ingrain few behaviours at the beginning of the day, that is proving to be quite useful.
I thought I should now scale up and decided to create a mind map on what and how I was thinking about it.
Plethora of options
The more I researched, the more inspiration and choices I found on routines — not just for the morning, but also the evening & night routine or daily and weekly.
After all struggles and suiting my needs, only 3 habits seem to stick to my morning routine:
- Drinking a cup of water: I do this almost immediately after I wake up. It refreshes, it wakes me up
- Yoga/ stretching: No, I am doing an 1 hour yoga session. It is just a 5–10 minutes of stretching that I do, based on minimum yoga that I learnt during my school/ college days. I found a combination of yoga/ exercises that works for me, like Surya Namaskar that increases my strength and helps my back pain; few joint exercises that relieves pain and increases my energy level.
- Writing morning pages: The first…
