Name: Playbook - Corinne Nicewick - Tuesday Morning Motivation
Uploaded: 2022-08-29T15:14:14.798Z
Duration: 15 min
Description: Tuesday 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.

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

Getting your circulation going and your body ready for the day only requires a little bit of movement

- keeping shoulders pulled back and dropped, neck elongated and back straight, create tight circles with your arms
- repeat in the opposite direction

Arm circles

Clockwork Lunges

- Starting from cobra, shift weight backwards bringing butt up into the air
- in as fluid of a movement as possible, lift one leg as you bring your chest closer to your feet
- lower and repeat on other side to complete one rep

Cobra to Downdog Kick

Movement

Think of the last time you did something nice for someone unconditionally and when someone did something nice for you unconditionally. Be grateful for the kindness of their heart and the kindness of your own.

Gratitude

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ―Lewis Carroll

Quote of the day

Tuesday Morning Motivation

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

Tuesday Morning Motivation

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