Good Morning, wow! That’s hot, what's in the newspaper for the day? Wow, oh what, what
happened? Oh my Gosh! When I wake up first I read the newspaper and I drink some hot
water just as you saw. What about you? What do you do first when you wake up? Do you go
gargling your throat? Or some of you may read the newspaper or read a book just like me.
And some of you might even dance in your underpants. No offence whatever you do in the morning,
it's absolutely fine but there are certain things that you might be doing in the morning
that may be making your day unproductive. So those are the habits that we need to cut
down on and in this session with me Michelle, today you are learning 7 things that you should
not be doing when you wake up first in the morning. So stay tuned at Skillopedia, the
place to learn skills for the real world.
Uhh... this alarm again it's 5.10, I need to reach by 7, I think I can snooze it for
10 minutes. Hi guys, do you snooze your alarm in the morning like I just did? Well I think
that’s a very bad habit. It’s really gonna help. If you can't face the world right now,
do you think you can face the world 10 minutes later? Umm... and it won't help you get too
much sleep anyways. So the best idea would be early to bed and early to rise. If you
decide the number of hours that you want to sleep, then sleep on time and calculate the
number of hours that you’ll be able to sleep if you wake up at the time decided by you.
Guess what according to most sleep specialists, it's not a good idea to snooze coz that might
lead you into a deeper sleep and what if you just wake up at all and you miss that really
important interview? So my dear, please don't snooze the alarm, coz that's not gonna help
you. So this is one thing that you should not be doing in the morning and I hope that
now, you will not snooze your alarm when you wake up coz it's not gonna help you. So don't
snooze your alarm.
So nice being in bed early morning. I think I have slept enough but I don't feel like
getting out of bed so soon. Hi again, this is a very bad habit. When you slouch in the
bed early morning, you’re up, you’re not sleepy anymore but you don't get up, you don't
get out of bed, you are still there and you are not ready to rise, even when you are doing
nothing. Congratulations that you didn't hit the snooze button, awesome. I’m glad that
you woke up but what's the point of waking up if you are still slouching in the bed doing
nothing? So you can use this time to actually do many productive things. If you get your
day started right now, there's a high possibility that you will not procrastinate and you'll
not be late for your assignments. So don't slouch in the bed and don't like awake, woken
up doing nothing. So wake up and do all the activities that you are required to do. The
best thing would be to start stretching up. Start moving around and start stretching because
according to most specialists when you wake up and you are stretching up your body, you
are more prepared for the day because you are physically active and your metabolism
increases and when your metabolism increases, your blood flow is better which means that
you can think clearly, you can think properly. So get up, don't slouch and be active.
Okay, let me see my messages. Oh last night I applied for this position, I hope I’ve
got a response, I'll see my email too. Uhh, never check your email early in the morning
coz if you start your day like that, you’ll never recover. The worst thing that you can
do in the morning is to see all the text messages and the emails that you've received. Of course
there are so many reminders that you need and there are a lot of problems that you need
to solve and also there are surprises awaiting you out there on your phone. However, if you
do that early in the morning, you are using your reserved energy that you gained during
the night to do unproductive things. I’m sure there is no message or no email that
cannot wait a minimum of at least half an hour. It's better to freshen up and move your
body around rather than going through your emails and you text messages. If you do that,
you are really losing your very productive time. You won't get time to drink some water
and to read the newspaper later and freshen up. So use your morning to do more productive
things and do not start it by reading through your emails or your text messages.
Is that coffee? No for me, that's a glass of water. What do you down in the morning?
A glass of water or a cup of coffee? Well if you think that you can't go through your
day without a cup of coffee, then you I think you are actually thinking something wrong.
According to science your body produces hormones called Cortisol early in the morning between
8 to 9 am and these are the stress hormones, which means they promote activity throughout
the day. However, if you have a coffee between 8 to 9 am or even before that, you are conditioning
your body to not produce these hormones. So when will your body actually these stress
hormones? If it produces later in the day, you’ll be experiencing what you fear the
most and that is stress. So if you want to avoid stress throughout the day, it's better
that you don't down a cup of coffee early in the morning. Let your body produce the
required hormones and let your body deal with the stress that comes in the day in its own
natural way. So it's better to gulp a glass of water rather than downing a cup of coffee
early in the morning. So leave that cup of coffee and that’s my suggestion to have
a more productive day.
Do you get ready in the dark? Well that's not a good idea. Do you know that your body
is sensitive to light? It knows that when it's bright and when it's dark. If you get
ready darkness, this means that your body and your mind might be still believing that
it’s night time and you could be feeling even more groggier, even more sleepier and
you’ll feel lazy, slogging around the room in the dark, still believing that you could
sleep a little bit more. But that's not a good idea. therefore, especially when you
have to go for an early morning duty or an early morning job, it's a great idea to switch
on bright lights or if you are still very sleepy for the day and you feel that you don't
have it in you to go through the day, switch on the lights, may be put on some music. So
that you feel more active and your body and your mind feels that it's day time and not
night time. The best thing which I do is to remove the shades or remove the curtains and
enjoy the bright sunlight but if you don't have that, you definitely have got electronic
lights in the room which you can use. So don't get ready in the dark because that is also
going to make your day very unproductive.
Why make your bed when you have to mess it up later while you sleep? True but not a good
habit. If you want to start your day right, then you must settle your bed well. Obviously,
because you are the one who is going to reap the benefits and so is true for all the other
good habits. Making your bed, early in the morning is like a keystone habit. It leads
to a chain reaction, so that you can do other good things and be more organized throughout
the rest of the day. If you want your day to be productive, then I suggest that you
make your bed early in the morning. If you are one of those people who does not, then
please start making your bed coz this is going to make you be organized and be more confident
as well, so that no one can tell you, hey you left your bed messed up, which is not
a very good sign for an adult or a sensible person. So make your bed early in the morning
and be prepared for a productive day.
Do you have a specific morning routine? That you wake up and then you have some hot water,
then you listen to music, may be then you go through your text messages and call the
required people and after that you start getting ready for the day. aha so if your pattern
is fixed, it's not a very helpful thing because your body has limited will power and if you
indulge your will power in doing only one thing at a time in the morning, you don't
have any left for the rest of the day. So basically in the morning your body should
be in the automatic mode, which means the AM mode. So you can do whatever you think
you should be doing early in the morning. Not just anything but obviously you could
sip the water and go through your messages or maybe you could even call a friend while
you are going to work. So you can do more than one thing at a time and this way save
your limited will resources which is your will power. So have an automatic mode in the
morning and do whatever is required combine it with more than one activity.
So in this session with me today, you have learnt 7 morning habits that can lead to an
unenjoyable rest of the day and now you know exactly the things that can lead you to have
an unproductive day and therefore it's time that you give those up and pick up better
habits like I’ve shared with you. So please try to follow these habits and can really
promise you for a happier and more productive and a more energetic rest of the day. Obviously
there is no fixed morning routine that works for anyone and I couldn't be telling you that
you should do this first, second or third but there are certain habits that you can
definitely give up and in this lesson, we have rounded those up for you. So I hope this
lesson really turns out to be productive for you, do let me know in the comments if you've
been doing any of these habits and come back for more sessions with me on Skillopedia,
the place where we all learn skills for the real world.