welcome back to the bliss bean today I'm sharing my morning routine with you I actually did a
morning routine blog post about a year ago so by now it's pretty outdated and as you go along you
find what works for you and what doesn't so I thought it would be fun to do a little update
on what my morning routine currently looks like so I'm gonna be sharing with you my morning routine
that I currently do this is honestly one of the habits that I find the hardest to miss because it
really sets me up to have a good day I have the entire routine all written out in my notebook I
added a little yellow Sun because why not I know the build productive habits and 30 days challenge
has already started but it's never too late to join I just wanted to bring that up because one
of the challenges is putting together a morning routine and so I give you some tips on what I
think every morning routine should include and how you can put together your own so make sure
you check that up okay so step one is to try and get up without snoozing the alarm full disclaimer
I have a lot of trouble with this it is hard to wake up early for schools but the reason I try
to get up without snoozing is because I actually read a lot of articles I talk about how it makes
you more tired and drowsy during the day actually because you're going back to sleep and then you're
waking up before you've even entered any kind of deep sleep you're better off just waking up
right away no matter how much you don't want to do that two things that helped me with that are
steps two and three so step two is writing down my dreams in my dream journal I am NOT the kind
of person that remembers their dreams very often and I don't have very interesting dreams when I
do as soon as I wake up I crawl over to the other side of my bed and grab my phone and I just use my
Notes app and I type it out and having to like physically sit up to type and use my brain to
remember my dream already starts to kind of get me out of that sleepy state if I still really
don't want to get out of bed I have this game on my phone called seven little words you get a bunch
of little groups of letters and then clues and you have to put the groups of letters into words that
match the clues I just like that it gets my mind going it makes me keep my eyes open and it's fun
but it's not gonna suck you in and keep you in bed okay so when I can finally convince myself
to get out of bed I then make my bed right away it just makes me feel like my dad started I'm not
as tempted to crawl back into bed and I really like that it makes my room look more organized
and clean once I'm out of bed I go downstairs and I start one of two things I used to do oil pulling
every single day it is where you take some oil in your mouth people usually use coconut or sesame
oil I think you use about a tablespoon and then you swish it for maybe 20 ish minutes and it is
good for a dental hygiene and it also whitens your teeth so yeah I used to do that every day but now
I do it every other day and then every other other day I do hot lemon water or very warm lemon water
so basically I just get a slice of lemon a cup of hot water I squeeze the slice of lemon into
the water but then I also just leave it in there to soak this is supposed to be good for your skin
and also good for digestion feel like this is one of those things that's a little controversial I
don't know if you'd call it controversial it's a couple of hot lemon water and then come on but I
think some people don't really think that it has those benefits I don't know I haven't seen drastic
changes but if anything it's a really nice way to just start your day with hydration good source of
vitamin C so then I go through the bathroom i splash my face with cold water to wake myself
up and I put in my contacts so that I can see so then with either my mouthful of oil or a cup of
lemon water in my hand I go back upstairs to my room I put on my music and I stretch now there
is a science to choosing your song so my two criteria are that the music is upbeat but then
my second criteria is that I cannot have heard it more than a few times before I get song stuck in
my head very easily and it annoys me very much so I decided to start listening to playlists that are
curated by other people my two favorite playlist on Spotify are morning commute and wake up happy
um first stretches I don't have a specific routine I just have a couple of stretches that I always
like to do like reaching my arms up above my head touching my toes yeah things like that then once
I feel like I'm done stretching I like to do a little bit of exercise because it is an amazing
feeling to like get your heart pumping your blood flowing even if you don't like exercise just get
like a minute I swear to you it will make you feel a lot better personally I like to do ab
exercises usually that makes me like sweat the tiniest bit so that is a really good time to go
and wash my face my skincare routine is pretty simple so don't expect like some 10 step routine
the first thing I do is I use an oil cleanser I don't pronounce this it's either all right I'm
just gonna go and say post softy mousse speedy cleansing oil it works great I like that it has
absolutely no fragrance and it feels really nice on your skin and then I follow up with
desert essence tea tree oil thoroughly clean face wash for oily combination skin it's been working
well so far so I just stick with it I also like to exfoliate only do that twice a week though because
you don't want to exfoliate your skin too much so that is something I do on Wednesdays and Sundays
so now that my face is all fresh I go back to my room and my next step is journaling morning pages
is a technique from Julia Cameron's book artist way which I will link to I've never actually read
it but since this technique came from it I'm guessing it's a pretty good book basically she
just recommends that every morning as soon as you wake up so I don't do it as soon as I wake up but
you do whatever works for you you write 3 journal pages all handwritten just stream-of-consciousness
whatever comes to your mind at the moment and so I've been challenging myself to write more even
when I feel like I have nothing to write about something will always come out it's just a really
nice way to like reset for the day it forces you to get all of your worries down on paper
and this is really good for your productivity because then once you start your day's work you
don't have all of these you don't have all of these thoughts like weighing on your mind and
distracting you so that's why the morning page is technique is one of the things that I talk about
in my 30 days of productive habits challenge but you should sign up for at the end of each journal
entry I write down three things that I'm excited about for the day just to get a positive attitude
this is especially important if there's something that day that I'm really dreading or even if it's
gonna be a really rough day one of the items that I list might just be I'm looking forward
to being done with everything and then I write an improvement for the day so sometimes this is
more like an affirmation something I just want to remind myself of throughout the day but some
a very specific improvement so like one that I did recently was to not use my phone during breakfast
I like to write this improvement down in my hand especially if it's an affirmation because I want
to be able to look down at it all day and then once I'm all like mentally set and ready for
the day I do my planning this you should look a little different when I use my paper planner I
would pull out that and work with that but now I do digital planning so I open up my laptop
and I go to the app that I'm using to do and I see my weekly view and I just check out what's
going on for the day so I make sure that all of my google calendar events are in my to-do list I
add or delete things then I set three priorities which COFF COFF is the first challenge of my 30
days of productivity challenge I'm sorry there's just so many opportunities to plug this challenge
and I just I just have to if you want to sign up for that it's in the description and then a stuff
that I consider really important because I like to have a set plan for the day I like to just
take my tasks and rearrange them in the order that I think I'll be doing them I'm coming out
with a video very soon on my digital planning routine so I'll talk more about how all of that
works and then we're on the last thing this might not make sense but the very last thing I do is I
moisturize my face why don't I do this right after I wash my face I really no I just feel like it's a
nice way to end my routine again you just kind of find what works for you this is why I think a lot
of people don't succeed at keeping up with morning routines is because they go online and they find
like recommended morning routines or like the routines of the most successful billionaires in
the world but you have to find what works for you because every person is different and every person
needs to start their day in a different way so I encourage you to just use this as inspiration pull
ideas from my routine and use them to build your own experiment with it try it out change things
around and just enjoy it a morning routine should be an enjoyable start to your day I also wanted to
talk a little bit about how long this takes me I'm so right now it consistently takes me about
40 to 50 minutes it's an investment in your day if you have very busy mornings if you just cannot
wake up early enough to dedicate 45 minutes to this don't worry about it I think the important
thing is just having a set routine and sticking to it so if you have 15 minutes to dedicate to this
write a 15 morning routine sometimes I wake late for school and so then I just shorten everything
in my routine and I make it work okay that's all I have to say I think so don't forget to
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