ASSIGNMENT 1
My Experience with Morning Routines
September 12, 2019
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My Experience with Morning Routines
“…I believe the most important part of your morning routine is the moment you wake up. I wake up with an alarm clock; not my phone, but a physical alarm clock sitting across the room. This forces me to get out of bed and walk across my room to shut it off. I personally leave electronics out of my morning routine because they tend to make me lose focus, but you may not have that issue and even use technology to enhance your routine…
…My morning usually looks like this: I wake up at 6:00 AM to music playing by my alarm clock. I immediately get out of bed, turn off the alarm, grab my clothes, and go take a shower. About twenty minutes later I’m back in my room to do some simple exercises. These are usually some push-ups and pull-ups, but really they can be anything that gets your blood moving. After some physical discipline, it’s time to train my mind and my spirit. This looks different from person to person; for me, it means devotions with my Bible and reading some other book. This usually takes anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour. Finally, I do a short meditation for about five minutes to clear my mind and focus on the upcoming day of school. Then I’m off to the races…”
This was basically my first morning routine — very simple. Sometimes that’s a good thing, especially when you’re trying to build a habit.
I have no idea how long this routine lasted. All I know is, I kept on changing it. I did more and more research on how to optimize my morning, and slowly my morning routine became more complex and complicated.
Eventually, my morning routine had morphed into this monster:
“I turn over in my bed to the sound of my alarm clock playing hip-hop music from a CD.
It’s 5:00 AM, which is five minutes earlier than the day before to give me a head-start. I’ve been working my way backward from 5:30 AM to 5:00 AM for a couple weeks now.
I immediately get out of bed and walk across my room to my alarm and turn it off. I flip on the light switch, then head downstairs to use the restroom and grab my lemon water out of the refrigerator. Then I’m back upstairs, where I begin some routine stretching to eliminate the stiffness from my body and get the blood flowing.
Okay, that took five minutes. Same as yesterday.
5:05 AM
I mark the time-stamp on my whiteboard and move on to my next task. I pray and mentally prepare my mind for the day ahead leaning against a pillow in my closet.
I need to take my time. This lasts for seven minutes today. That’s a minute longer than yesterday, but in this scenario that’s not a bad thing.
5:12 AM
Now, I move into my favorite part of my morning routine — writing. I write two pages with paper and pencil, which is usually about 600 words. Today, writing two pages took thirty-two minutes. That’s only a minute faster than yesterday, but I’ll take it. That means I’m still five minutes ahead.
5:44 AM
I quickly move into my exercise routine. It used to take me about seventeen minutes to complete, but over time I’ve cut it down to eleven minutes. There are exercises that increase my strength and exercises that boost my cardiovascular health, eight in total.
Here’s the routine:
10 pull-ups
10 chin-ups
20 dips
10 burpees
25 push-ups
50 crunches
50 calf jumps
20 jump squats
10 chin-ups
20 dips
10 burpees
25 push-ups
50 crunches
50 calf jumps
20 jump squats
I complete the routine in eleven minutes, just like yesterday.
5:55 AM
Now that I’ve worked up a sweat, I grab the clothes that I set out the night before, and I go downstairs to take a shower and get dressed for the day. I finish my shower with at least one minute of cold water for health benefits and an energy boost.
After I finish drying off, getting dressed, combing my hair, etc., I go back upstairs to read and finish off my routine. Strangely, it all took twenty-seven minutes…exactly like yesterday.
I’m still five minutes ahead.
6:22
I grab one of the books off of my dresser and read ten pages. I lose focus a few times and struggle not to drift off while I read. Ten pages takes an entire twenty-one minutes…three minutes longer than yesterday. My lead is cut down to just two minutes.
6:43
Now, it’s time to read five pages of my Bible. I can’t rush this. Again, I have problems focusing while I read, and it takes me twelve minutes to get through five pages. That’s three minutes longer than yesterday, so today’s morning race is a loss.
6:55
That’s ok, it’s just a total minute longer than yesterday, even though I woke up five minutes earlier. Now, it’s easier to win tomorrow, right?
It’s been two hours since I’ve been awake, so I go downstairs to eat breakfast and check emails, notifications, etc. With all of that out of the way, I’m ready to tackle my three projects for the day.”
That was grueling. It sounds like something I would do though. It was very ambitious, but unrealistic, at least for the time. I hadn’t yet built a consistent morning routine, so plunging straight into a hard-core, two-hour routine like this wasn’t ideal.
Obviously, I burned out. I think I only kept it for about two to three weeks.
Since then, I’ve learned that it is much better to do small and simple actions consistently, rather than tackling a huge chain of actions at once.
Right now, I don’t really have a morning routine. I try to wake up before 7:00 AM, and if I do, I spend it by writing in my journal and reading my Bible. Those are the two actions that I am focusing on. So far, I have read at least two chapters in my Bible and written at least one sentence in my daily journal for thirteen days in a row, starting at the beginning of this year.
Sometimes this gets done in the morning, but sometimes I’m tired or cold and I sleep in. Another thing I’ve learned is, don’t beat yourself up. I don’t need to be an ultra-productive, hyper-efficient machine in the mornings. Ideally, I will have a structured and productive morning routine that I consistently follow, but I’m content with it being a work in progress. Once I can do a couple little habits for 30 days in a row, then I can build on that.
I’ve also learned that my environment is a big factor. It’s harder for me to have my own morning routine and optimize my environment for success because I’m not in complete control of my environment. I live in a small apartment and share a room with my brother. During northern Wisconsin winters, it gets very cold in the mornings. Again, I’ve learned not to be too hard on myself.
I’m young; I’m just a 16-year-old high school student. One day, I’ll move out of the house and live with myself. Then it will be easier to control my environment and do exactly what I want. For now, I just have to focus on consistency and building discipline. Starting with a foundation.
If you’re still reading, what has been your experience with morning routines? Do you currently have one? Why or why not? Have you dabbled with different ones?
I’d be very interested to hear about your experiences; please share in a response.
Difficult Words :
1. Immediately : At once; instantly.
2. Races : A competition between runners, horses, vehicles, etc. to see which is the fastest in covering a set course.
3. Refrigerator : An appliance or compartment which is artificially kept cool and used to store food and drink. Modern refrigerators generally make use of the cooling effect produced when a volatile liquid is forced to evaporate in a sealed system in which it can be condensed back to liquid outside the refrigerator.
4. Stiffness : Inability to move easily and without pain
5. Cardiovascular : Relating to the heart and blood vessels.
6. Dressed : (of stone) having had the surface smoothed.
7. Grueling : Extremely tiring and demanding
8. Exactly : Used to emphasize the accuracy of a figure or description.
Questions :
2. What favourite part of the writer at 5:12 AM?
3. What is the meaning of grueling? based on the text.
4. Why the environment is big factor of morning routine?
5. What is kind he/she complete the routine in eleven minutes?
Answers :
1. The moment you wake up. I wake up with an alarm clock; not my phone, but a physical alarm clock sitting across the room. This forces me to get out of bed and walk across my room to shut it off. I personally leave electronics out of my morning routine because they tend to make me lose focus, but you may not have that issue and even use technology to enhance your routine.
2. Writing time
3. Grueling ks. sangat meletihkan. g. race perlombaan yang sangat meletihkan.
4. Because, environment is a big factor. It’s harder for me to have my own morning routine and optimize my environment for success because I’m not in complete control of my environment. I live in a small apartment and share a room with my brother. During northern Wisconsin winters, it gets very cold in the mornings. Again, I’ve learned not to be too hard on myself.
5. Here’s the routine:
10 pull-ups
10 chin-ups
20 dips
10 burpees
25 push-ups
50 crunches
50 calf jumps
20 jump squats
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