How do you normally start your mornings?

1) Wake my 10yo up and remind him that, yes, it's a school day 2) Head over to the home office and say good morning to my wife (she's up at 0530 every day for meetings on East Coast time) 3) Let the dog out and feed him 4) Make coffee 5) Find and write a daily inspiring quote on our kitchen whiteboard (I really need one of these: https://www.oatfoundry.com/split...) 6) Get son out the door to school 7) Open laptop in location du jour and begin first meeting at 0730

The way I spend the morning and how I would like are completely different things!) I start the morning with a hearty breakfast and watching the news.

Honestly always with lighting incense, and my morning coffee (black) ☕️ (with a side of ambient music)

Mornings are all about getting my little girl up and ready for day care. Gives me good perspective on life before I get into my personal passion

By setting concrete goals for the day. Setting goals specific to the day puts everything into motion. Having concrete goals that can be narrowed down to a few achievable ones that can be broken down into steps correlates with huge increases in confidence and feelings of control.

I need to get better at it again. It used to be light breakfast (cereals), walk or gym, sh*t-shower-shave (3S), get dressed, work. Now, with lockdowns, it's bathroom, lay down again for 30 minutes and HootSuite my social media for the day, emails, shower and code/data/business development/strategy, depending on the day. During lockdown, and after a couple of injuries last year, I found the lack of gym access frustrating at first. I just kept putting on weight. However, that rest did my injuries the world of good and I was then nominated for a 25 press-ups for 25 day challenge and tried to over-achieve on that as much as I could (as press-ups are easy). Some days I'd do 50 straight, some days one armed, some days get 100 to 200 in etc. Did well to lose a few pounds. I should set those as goals on here. So I keep doing it :-D

My morning starts with reading and a bottle of water(●'◡'●). That's quite easy.

1) Let the dog out and feed him 2) Make coffee 3) Find and write a daily inspiring quote on our kitchen whiteboard (I really need one of these: http://kuldeepahlawat.com/ 4) Get son out the door to school

I get up at 7am, do some stretches and light cardio while the coffee is brewing, chug a cup of water, then get to work. I typically work on my todo the night before, so I can sleep on it.

My morning routine has gone through many changes over the years and has had its peaks and lows. I usually like to keep it flexible and see how my body feels. During the pandemic, I adopted new habits as well and have tried to adopt them as habits. Waking up before 6 am, 5-10 mins of run, followed by another 15 to 45 mins of exercise using the Nike Training app, shredding and breaking a coconut and then drinking the water which makes me feels super-fresh after the workout. Then reading one chapter of a book while allowing my body to rest. Using this method of one chapter per day, I have finished two books and am onto my third right now. This routine makes my day feel very productive, energetic and enthusiastic.