I started doing a consistent morning routine two weeks ago and I am surprised to say that I have stuck with it 100% for 14 days so far! Since I rarely stick with anything very long, I am pretty shocked that this is the case. Here's what I do each morning (while the list is long, most things take less than a minute or two to complete):
- I make sure to eat three pieces of fruit throughout the day
- I make sure to eat 7 vegetables throughout the day
- I eat one serving of whole grains
- I eat one serving of nuts or seeds
- I eat one serving of beans
- Vitamins (a multi and a vitamin C)
- Weigh myself (the needle isn't moving much yet)
- Check my blood pressure (it has dropped like a rock since I started eating better)
- Breathing exercise
- Stretch/yoga (a half dozen poses and basic stretching)
- Sit ups (I add one more per day so today I did 14 and will do 15 tomorrow, etc)
- Push ups (ditto)
- Squats (ditto)
- Jumping jacks (ditto)
- Arm weights (3 lb weights, 5 x 10)
- Handstand
- Dance (one song; cha cha, boogie, hip hop, etc)
- Jump rope (50 reps)
- Walk (distance depends on what we are doing each day)
- Meditate (I find a 5 minute meditation on YouTube to follow)
- Law of attraction video (found here)
- Language (I'm working on Spanish right now)
- Affirmations (repeated a few times in the mirror)
- Visualization (I visualize my goals)
- Gratitude list (I write down 10 things I am thankful for each day)
- Crossword puzzle (from this site)
- News review (I quickly check several news websites each morning)
- Deals review (I quickly check several deals websites each morning)
- Email (all of my email accounts are aggregated in one app so it's easy to check all at once)
- Blogs (write one blog post a day for this or my other blogs)
- Blog comment (comment on someone's blog each day)
- Social media (check Facebook once per day)
- Websites (make any changes/updates to my websites if needed)
- Check bank accounts (I do this once per week, daily if needed)
- Pay bills (do this as needed)
- Make sure hubby takes his pills
- Shop list (review the shopping list on my phone and see if anything needs to be added)
- Clean house (tidy the house every morning and do a thorough cleaning once a week)
- Laundry (this is done as needed)
- Fashionable (check to see if I am marginally fashionable before I leave the house)
- Attitude (remind myself to keep a good attitude throughout the day)
- Beauty (do any beauty tasks if needed like get a haircut or color, etc)
- Jewelry (remind myself to wear jewelry which I often forget)
- Perfume (ditto)
- Text my friend (I've been texting her daily since the pandemic started and we never stopped)
- Shop (go shopping if needed)
- Errands (do errands if needed; we usually shop and do errands once a week)
- Activity (we usually do an activity like movies or other entertainment once a week)
- People (write, call, or text someone daily)
- Check the mail
- Genealogy (I add to my family tree here, even if it is just uploading a picture)
- Write (I'm working on a series of books now)
- Floss
- Weekly tasks: wash bedding, clean pantry, clean fridge, clean garage food area, clean garage fridge, clean garage, do the yard, update devices, attend any scheduled meetings)
Hi this is Chris. I have never commented on your blog, but I do read and like it. I would be interested if you could do a post sometime about the deal sites you check. Maybe you could do a “10 things” post about it? (Or less). Thank you.
ReplyDeleteDone! https://cashonlyliving.blogspot.com/2022/07/10-favorite-deal-sites.html
DeleteWhat an amazing list. I love the genealogy idea. I need to get back to my research. I need to add write to my daily list. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteErin
I love Family Search because I can go on it once a day and search random names in my tree and because they are indexing new information daily, there is usually more documents to add everyday.
DeleteWell, I must say I am impressed! Good for you.
ReplyDeleteI'm feeling so much more productive!
DeleteWow! That's a heckuva routine.
ReplyDeleteIt is actually pretty quick but then again, I don't work so I have a couple of hours in the morning to do all of these things!
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