How to improve your morning routine
Nov 8 · 2 min read
I believe morning routines are essential for grounding and setting your day up for success.

If you are interested in improving yours, here’s how I suggest you go about it:
- Spend 3 days going about your morning regularly. Simply observe, without changing what you do throughout the day. Keep a note on your phone or a piece of paper. Don’t read the previous day’s notes. For example: Woke up (snoozed 3 times). approx 1 hour on phone. 30 min in shower. 30 min changing. ran to work. stress levels high.
- Next, after the 3 days, read through all your notes. Again, do not judge yourself or put yourself down if you do not like what you see. This is an excellent opportunity for self-awareness and improvement. Choose 1 thing you would like to change first.
- Then, realistically think about what you can do to change that one thing. Is it using your phone too much in bed? A trick is to charge your phone away from arms reach, but close enough that you can hear your alarm in the morning. When you wake up, do ONE thing before checking your phone. Literally, you can brush your teeth then check it. Keep this up and observe how you can keep improving it over time. Small steps here. Don’t go from placing your phone further, to throwing away your phone. Unless that’s what you really want. In that case, go for it.
- Next, close your eyes write a list of things you’d love to do right after you wake up. Visualize the most perfect of perfect scenarios. List down what you see.
- Choose the most realistic out of the bunch. Notice, I keep repeating the word realistic because that’s the key here. You know yourself and your habits better than anyone else, so be real with yourself on what you can do and what is a reach right now.
- Then, add that habit to your day every other day.
- Work on the above two for 2–3 weeks.
life now + habit we want (3xweek) — an unwanted habit (7x week) - Once you feel like you have a hang on these, do the same by working to remove another unwanted habit, and add a wanted habit.
Best of luck! Remember not to be so critical. It’s all about baby steps and an upwards(ish) trend. As Winston Churchill put it:
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
*PS I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear and I think a lot of what he wrote is engrained in my subconscious and thus, in this post. I highly recommend reading his book. It’s a game-changer ( link to the book here)
