Monday Morning Motivation – Ritual
(Sharing Resources to Help You Grow Personally, Professionally & Financially)
Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement — along with a good cup of coffee! — to start the day.
Hopefully the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter on to others that you think would benefit from the content.
Ritual
A great question to think about is:
- In the ideal world, what do the first sixty minutes of your day look like?
While it is a simple question, it raises so many other questions, including:
- Do you have a set routine to start your day?
- What is important to you / what do you include in this routine?
- Do you stick to the routine?
- Does it help when you stick to the routine?
- Journal my thoughts with a focus on gratitude and self-improvement
- Quick glance at the calendar to identify the day’s meetings
- Quick glance at the emails from overnight to ensure there are no crises
- Schedule the day in ½ hour blocks. Include time for personal development, exercise, reading, writing, and relaxation
- Log my activities from the previous day (reading, writing, contacts with people, food, exercise, etc.)
- Spend a few minutes with Leo, our tuxedo cat
- Stretch
- Read a couple of Bible verses
While I am not able to perform the routine every day, I do so on a fairly consistent basis. What I’ve found is that if I start my day with this routine, the rest of the day seems to fall in place.
With that in mind, I’m going to pose the same question as earlier:
- In the ideal world, what do the first sixty minutes of your day look like?
Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning and I wish you all the best for the week.
Curt
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