My secret habits for starting your morning like a super star!
How do you think you will feel if you could go out of your house, every morning, on time, not in a rush, not yelling or complaining but with a smile, playing and talking with the kids and/or with your spouse? Sounds amazing, doesn’t it?
Only trying to visualize, it feels good…
Do you even think it could be true? Actually…it could really be.
For the one of you that don’t know me…..as a frame…
WHO I AM. I have a passion for Growth. I am a mom of 3, expat for the last 15 years in different countries, spouse of a workaholic, addicted to the Ocean (now we live in Switzerland!!), a pragmatic dreamer and a persistent and tenacious researcher and actualizer of the perfectible map of an extraordinary, happy, successful and fulfilled life (I am getting there and I will share ‘the how’ with you!!). _ My enemies are – procrastination, fear of not being smart or ready enough, confusion (I always have too many ideas, too many things in my mind and at the end of the day I feel that I am not moving the needle)…and yes..handful (always too many things to do, household, kids, schedules, homeschooling, sport, lunch, dinner, grocery, laundry…and as all of us..only 24 hours!) _ My best friends are – ‘problem solving’, ‘options seeking’, ‘solutions orienting’, ‘best way to, ‘easier way to’, ‘new ways to’ and I am not ‘confort zone oriented’, means that I always try to push me towards the unfamiliar to experiment and find what fells good on a step by step process, I cannot resist without studying and reading, buying and taking courses (I always have a course to attend in my daylight schedule!) on Personal Development.
I truly believe that building the best version of ourself step by step is the key. Being able to systematically stop for a moment and make the right questions and look for the right answers and act accordingly, stick with it, try, adjust and break through…it is what brings us to reach our full potential.
That said, let’s go on the juicy and on the Secrets for a morning routine that sticks.
Differently for every phase of my life, the morning has always been like a fierce animal to fight against and that consumed me and defeated me, leaving a sense of incomplete and brought my self esteem down every time.
This was not my ideal situation, at all, I needed to do something about it.
When I was single and studying, when I was working all around Italy, when I married and moved, when I had my first kid and had to go to work, when I had my second one, when we moved over ocean and everything was so different, when I had the third one…and I can list all the different situations where I felt overwhelmed, messed up, tired, unhappy and defeated at 8.00 am already.
And I know that YOU relate, I know it because this is (nearly) the only conversation we could have together on the drop off at school, walking, on the desk, on the first morning coffe at the machine, on the phone…every moms discussions lead there! And I was so sick of them!
This is me before: always in late, rushing, forgetting things (and sometimes kids), fight with everybody for everything (I even don’t want to make a list because you know better) overwhelmed, severe, yelling being, stressed, moody, sending around bad energy, blaiming everypone for being wrong…and only writing it down it makes me feel the way I was…so tired, sad and unfulfilled…and starting the day like that never brings us far away…
One morning, I had an ‚aware moment‘, a strong one. Usually these happen to me after a crisis, where I feel that it cannot be worst than that and these are for me transformational moments.
I start studying all the routine of the successful people, reading books, try out things, subscribed to courses, listening to podcast, journaling, set up to do lists and I have to say that I change complitely the way I look into morning.
Now I start from myself. I change my mindset around it, I transformed a wild morning animal into my fluffy puppy!
This is me now: I enjoy so much my time in the morning, the silence, my yoga, my affirmations, my listening to podcast or meditation music while I prepare the breakfast and the lunchbox for the kids, the waking up of the kids smiling ready for the day, the retual of the breakfast together…
What is different?
I created a MORNING RITUAL. I create space for myself, with discipline, I wake up earlier (and go to bed earlier as well) and I start the day the way I want…and this is an added value for everyone, the whole family is enjoying the results of it, not only myself, but the kids, the husband..what is not the same is the energy the I create with this simple step. Of course I still have bad days…but it is rare and I have a system in place to go back on track immediately! It took some willpower and I had to change the way I think about the mornings…but now it became an habit, it is in my life, I have it, I am not going to trade it for anything but an upgrade!
It brought to me so much value that I want you to try it, to choose one thing and start designing your days and you will see how powerful it is and how powerful you are!
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Cannot wait to hear from you, see you at the next stop of this journey, and remember…. IN DOUBT, GROW!