How to Design Your Perfect Morning Routine

I truly believe that your morning routine sets up your day! I don’t know about you but when I snooze my alarm so much that I wake up when my kids wake up, it throws me off for the day. I’m waking up myself, trying to change a diaper, get milk ready, make breakfast and I am left feeling very frazzled. That’s why having a perfect morning routine (whatever perfect means for you) is crucial! So… how do we create that routine? Keep reading!

What to Include in Your Perfect Morning Routine

The perfect morning routine is going to look different for everyone SO think about what would feel good to you. Maybe it’s waking up and meditating. Maybe you want to get your workout in right away. There’s no right or wrong answer. This routine is YOURS!

Some ideas of what you might include:

• Meditate
• Journal
• Read
• Yoga
• Workout
• Affirmations
• Write out your daily tasks/plan your day
• Work on something you’re passionate about

What I do recommend is FIRST drinking a glass of water before doing anything! This gets your body going and wakes you up a bit. Then if you enjoy coffee, tea or preworkout (me!), have that. Then, choose a few things that will make up your perfect morning routine.

My current morning routine:

• Wake up and change into my workout clothes
• Drink a glass of water
• Make my preworkout
• Journal – I write out daily accomplishments from the day before and take time to dream big and envision my best life and write about that
• Affirmations
• Read personal development (about 5-10 minutes)
• Workout

What will you include in yours? I’d love to hear! Share with me over on Instagram @daniellemgodfrey

How Much Time Do You Need

Now that you have your perfect morning routine written out, let’s decide on timing! Knowing how much time you want to spend on each items will give you an overall time to wake up! For example: I know that changing into my workout clothes, drinking water and making my preworkout takes about 10 minutes. Then, I head down to my garage to finish my morning routine. It takes me about 10-15 minutes to journal, 2 minutes to read/say my affirmations and then I read for about 5-10 minutes. That part of my morning routine takes about 30 minutes. Then, I workout for 30 minutes. Knowing my kids wake up around 6 (6:30 on a good day) tells me that I should start my morning routine around 5am.

See how we can reverse engineer our plans and know exactly what to do to set up our perfect morning routine? Now, you give it a try!

Let’s Implement!

Now that you have your routine written out and exactly how much time you need for your routine, it’s time to implement! Believe it or not, your morning routine starts the NIGHT before. So, tonight, go to bed and remind yourself WHY you’re so excited to implement this morning routine. Envision yourself going through your entire perfect morning routine and just feeling incredible the entire day. Then, when your alarm goes off in the morning, get up RIGHT away. Snoozing your alarm is like snoozing your life. Get up, go through that routine and set yourself up for an AMAZING day!

And don’t forget…

Just because you’ve created the perfect morning routine for THIS season of your life, doesn’t mean that it’s your forever perfect morning routine. If you find yourself going through the motions or not being excited for your morning routine, tweak it until you find something that works! It’s not what you do during your morning routine that matters, it’s whatever feels best to YOU!

I’d love to hear about your perfect morning routine! Let’s connect over on Instagram! @daniellemgodfrey