“There’s power in your routine. It literally powers your day.”
Yesterday, I shared on the topic of morning routines and it came up this afternoon in a coaching session, so I wanted to continue the conversation today.
Our morning routine is the fuel for our day. Neglecting to have one is like starting every day without filling your tank. We’ve all done it. Waited until the last minute to go to the gas station. And what happens? We’re late, we’re frustrated, and ready to fight everyone due to our own negligence.
Or how about seeing ourselves as the actual car. Imagine starting it up every day with no fuel and hoping it gets you where you’re going.
Doesn’t make sense does it? Yet we do it to ourselves all the time.
The momentum with which we start our days determines our momentum for the rest of the day.
The same way that neglecting to follow a routine has a domino effect of negative feelings that boil into frustration and irritability at everyone on our path, having a good routine has the alternate effect; a series of positive events and feelings. Those negative emotions bank roll into negative feelings received from others who we rub the wrong way and so on it goes.
But let’s take the example of an external routine I shared yesterday of a “slight beat.”
She lit up when she got to this part. “Omg, I put a little make up on yesterday, and it made me feel so good. I ended up having such a good day!” she exclaimed.
It starts in the mirror. When you like what you see in the mirror, it bounces back onto you. Then you log into your meeting and you get compliments on your eye brows or lip gloss, and boom, another dose of positive feelings. There’s a bounce back a effect that comes from taking the time to fuel your day in this way. It compounds throughout the day.
The momentum with which we start our days determines our momentum for the rest of the day.
A little bit of fuel goes a long way, because that one small push has enough power to in quick, short frequencies knock down the entire rest of the sequence laid out ahead.
It’s so simple. And so necessary. How you start matters.
