RouletteWeekend

It dawned on me after I posted yesterday that I got off track talking about my new job and I didn’t even mention my new(ish) morning routine.

I have tried 75 hard a couple times. If you don’t know what it is, it’s a mental toughness challenge that requires you to do two 45 minute workouts per day. One has to be outside. You have to take a daily progress picture. Drink a gallon of water a day. Follow a diet with no cheat days and give up alcohol. And while I didn’t find it to be terribly difficult in the sense of the tasks. Some days you just don’t want to work out and in my mind, it’s ok to take a break sometimes. Which I guess is exactly why it’s called a mental toughness challenge. I feel like my whole life has basically been a mental toughness challenge from having 3 kids without any pain meds to raising them mostly alone in the depths of poverty. Life has always been a challenge.

I also like to really prepare for challenges by reading the books and listening to the podcasts of the person who created the challenge and the person who created this specific challenge rubs me the wrong way for some reason so I have had a heavy mental block about supporting the “work.” So it seemed only natural that I would “fail” the challenge because I was being stubborn about seeking out the right answers when it came to the challenge.

All of that to say that in the process of all of that, I have been searching for a morning routine that works for me. I used to have a pretty good one and slowly it has fallen to the wayside so I am trying to get back to it.

Things I want to include in my morning are my daily pages where I do a brain dump first thing in the morning that is three pages long. Then of course my morning workout. I want to add in affirmations and a corresponding 5 minute meditation. I want to get out and walk before 10am. I want to add watching the sunrise at least every Sunday. That’s basically all I have so far. I know it seems like a lot and really time consuming, but what I have found is that when I take that time for myself in the morning even if it means getting up at 5 am so I can get it all done, I feel so much more accomplished and ready to face the day. And that’s all I really want. I want to be ready to face the day and feel accomplished.

Do you have a morning routine? I’d love to hear what yours looks like.