Successful Entrepreneurs Create A Mindful Morning Routine

by Oct 1, 2024

Successful entrepreneurs value the start of each new day. Create a mindful morning routine that prepares you for the day ahead using these 16 tips. Whether it’s nourishing your body and the decision to go for a walk or other mindful activities, the routine starts your day on a positive note. Mindfulness and morning rituals cultivate a positive mindset and prepare you for your busy morning and productive day. 

Successful Entrepreneurs Create A Mindful Morning Routine

Mindful mornings aren’t just a trend or something we say. Successful entrepreneurs start their day with intention. The point isn’t to add stress and anxiety to an already fast-paced, overscheduled day. Instead you purposely setting the tone for your day with a routine that relaxes, fuels, and calms you. Mindful morning routines ensure your days begin on a positive note. 

Is this a new idea? No. It didn’t just come about with life’s latest pressures. Beginning with a positive routine and brief activities that set the pace for a great day are not new.  

Even Albert Einstein began his day with a simple routine. He spent his morning at home, had breakfast and read the newspaper. It was common at that time. News was also less sensational and more about learning as well as what was going on. After this time spent fueling his body and reading, he often walked to work, which was about a mile and a half a day. There were no cell phones or social media. He was forced to notice his surroundings and enjoy his peace. For many of us, that would be a perfect morning routine. 

If it is for you, then you have a great example provided. If it’s not for you, it’s the hint of building blocks that you can put together however they work best for you!  

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Create a morning ritual that works for you.

The elements of a daily routine are common. You can build in meditation, speaking affirmations and mantras. Stretching, doing yoga, reading, journaling, simply stepping outside to see the sunrise or listening to birds as you walk outside.

It’s painless! It’s all free. It’s all about being grateful, setting your intentions for the day, and visualizing how you want the day to unfold. If you don’t read, start. If you don’t have time or aren’t interested, write down three things you’re grateful for and read them back to yourself. 

Create your own morning mindfulness practices with simple steps. Take a few moments to consciously appreciate the present moment. 

For example: You’ve got 1 hour. Perhaps your choices include: 

Waking up to music, stretching, taking a shower, looking in the mirror and saying a morning mantra. Then having that first glass of water, making and enjoying breakfast while hearing the weather and traffic but then listening to a favorite podcast or music. After, you take 10 minutes to plan out your day by jotting down a quick list and checking your calendar. You take the dog out for a brief walk. 

This didn’t include journaling or reading? Maybe that is part of your evening routine. 

Your shower requires 1 hour? Then you need to get up earlier. 

It’s about building blocks not an expectation to do it all. 

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Joseph Masaba Sunrise

Reap The Benefits of a Mindful Morning Routine.

1.)  Begin well-rested. Your great, mindful morning routine begins with the result of your evening routine. Go to bed on a positive note, on your schedule, and aim for 8 hours of sleep (or whatever is best for you).

2.)  Wake up gently. Have a pleasant alarm or to nature sounds. Use Phillips or other smart wake up lamp that mimics the break of day.

3.)  Stretch. As you reach for your slippers or walk to the bathroom to brush your teeth.

4.)  Look in the mirror and smile because you got this.

5.)  Say your morning mantras.

6.)  Hydrate! Pour that first glass of water + a cup of coffee, tea, or juice.

7.)  Shower.

8.)  Think. Set your intentions and goals for the day.

9.)  Write. Plan your day. Write/type out a list. Journal. Write 3 things for which you are grateful.

10.)  Fuel your body with a nutritious breakfast. Mindful eating matters!

11.)  Read a chapter. Read poetry. 

12.)  Move your body. Stretch, yoga, walk inside or outside. Walk up steps. Move somehow for 10-15 minutes. If you did this several times a day you would have your 30 minutes. Your 60. you can still stretch. If you are going somewhere park farther away. Get the steps in.

Any kind of movement. You don’t need to raise your heartbeat first thing in the morning through exercise if that is not for you. Personally, it’s not me and I also haven’t built in morning medication. But I can practice mindful self-care and reduce stress in other ways. I can start the day with a stretch and hold as I say a morning mantra of affirmation. This is 10 minutes for and about YOU. 

Stretching raises your energy levels and offers multiple benefits. It helps wake up your muscles and increases blood flow which helps relieves pain and stiffness from sleeping. It reduces your soreness and fatigue while increasing your flexibility. As it is working on those, stretching is increasing fluid in your joints and spinal discs and helping you stand up straight. This simple movement offers complex benefits!

13.)  Enjoy Mother Nature! Have coffee outside or by a window.

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Mindfulness Helps Your Body and Mind

 

14.)  Meditate

15.)  Say affirmations.

16.)  Perform mindful breathing. 

Mindful mornings allow you to wake up with peace and offer time to reflect upon things. They set the tone for your day. Control this. Consciously take a few deep breaths and hold. Use the Calm app.

If you have wake up to a rushed situation, you can still control some of your time. A morning routine can help. Get up 15 minutes earlier. If all else fails, make it part of your bedtime routine.

Set boundaries and consider your options. You need to make the effort to build it in and then capture that time for yourself.

Life is hectic. Each situation is unique, and we think others don’t get it, but the fact is that most of us face this and will benefit from a mindful morning routine.

If you have children and pets whose needs come before yours and those needs control your morning, then look beyond those meal times and the continual movement. Make that happen while taking them outside to play.

Notice the beauty around you. The clouds. The sun coming up over the trees or building next door. Perfectly formed drops of rain or snowflakes landing on your window. The sounds.

If you look at your phone, make that action about opening the camera to take a picture of a cloud formation. Delete it later.

You don’t need to live on a rigid schedule, but starting your day with intention helps create a sense of calm and helps you stop feeling overwhelmed. Allow yourself time for mindful minutes and set a positive tone through mindfulness routine activities.

They are literally moments in time. Not your entire day. Yet they affect your entire day ~ your body and brain. Your mental well-being. Set your pace, start on a positive note, and allow mindfulness to be more than a buzz word. Let it work for you. You got this.

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