Name: Playbook - Corinne Nicewick - Friday Morning Motivation
Uploaded: 2022-08-29T15:15:03.501Z
Duration: 15 min
Description: Friday Morning Motivation

Your morning is the most important part of your day to set the tone for the rest of the day. Setting yourself up for a productive, optimistic, and positive day with an established routine will increase your mood over time as well as your overall health.

Did you do everything on your weekly list? How do you feel? Take note on how tired you are from the week or how much energy you have left so that you can adjust the amount that you have the capacity for next week!

Friday to do

These morning habits help to increase your mood as well as your motivation in addition to creating some level of routine which gives your body a very comfortable and recognizable start to each day.

Making your bed establishes in your mind that sleep is over and done. At the same time, you are accomplishing one small task that gets your fat going. The hardest part of any day is getting going! Making your bed propels you in the forward direction at the same time as closing the door behind you keeping you from stepping backward.

Make your bed

Think of this as wiping the slate clean. You’re washing away yesterday, getting rid of anything that was previously in way of your motivation and productivity. Today is a new day, not to be weighed down by the decisions of yesterday.

Wash your face

Even minor dehydration can have adverse effects on cognition

Drink a glass of water

Researchers found that working memory and executive function were improved with exercise, especially with those who conducted a brisk walk first thing in the morning!

Go for a walk

Sunshine is a real psychological human need. It’s been proved that exposure to morning sun lights results in greater alertness. Morning light exposure can also lead to better sleep, which can have a cascade effect on mood the next day!

You can also easily get your sun during your morning walk!

Get ten minute of sun

To-do lists are actually proved to relieve stress rather than stimulating it. It’s been proved that unfinished goals with no plan of action intrusively enter into your mind over the course of unrelated tasks, causing poor performance of the current task.
This is because an unfulfilled task sticks in your mind, a phenomenon called the Zeigarnik effect - “contributing to goal pursuit through plan-making could satisfy the various cognitive processes that usually promote goal pursuit.”

Without making a plan of action for the day, reviewing what needs to be done and how you’ll be doing it, the unfinished goal will haunt you the entire day, finishing the quality of your work.

Make a to-do list (the right way)

Morning Motivation Habits

Placing your hand on something for support, swing your leg from one side to the other side trying to keep core engaged and back straight

Lateral Leg Swings

Placing your hand on something for support, swing your leg forward and backward trying to keep core engaged and back straight

Medial Leg Swings

Starting on stomach, slowly engage up activating vertebrae by vertebrae, using muscles to pull back up and keeping as much weight off the fingers and hands as possible

Elongated Cobra

Enter Superman and rotate to touch one foot and then rotate to the other side to touch the other to complete one rep

Superman toe taps

Movement

Look back on this week and think of all the times you’ve been able to enter flow state and get something done. Whether that was once for five minutes or every day for hours, celebrate those moments and look forward to more.

Gratitude

“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” ―Marissa Mayer

Quote of the day

Friday Morning Motivation

I recently have struggled with finding structure in my mornings, this was super helpful ❤️🙏

Friday Morning Motivation

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