WHY MORNINGS ARE SO IMPORTANT

“How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life. Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days—which inevitably create a successful life—in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life. By simply changing the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible.”
~ Hal Elrod from The Miracle Morning

Want to have a great day? (And therefore a great week + month + year + life?)

Start with a great morning.

Want to have a mediocre day? (And therefore a mediocre week + month + year + life?)

Start with a mediocre morning.

It really IS that simple.

You can’t have a truly extraordinary day/life if you’re starting every.single.day off lethargic and rushed and stressed. (Sorry to break it to you. 🙂

Mornings are where the magic begins.

How are yours?

What can you do to dial them in a bit (or a lot)?

“Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.”

~ Doe Zantamata

People are real, but the crowd disappoints.

Every crowd, sooner or later, will let you down.

The crowd contains a shoplifter, or a heckler, or an anonymous boor who leaves a snarky comment.

The crowd loses interest, the crowd denigrates the work, the crowd isn’t serious.

Worst of all, sometimes the crowd turns into a mob, out of control and bloodthirsty.

But people, people are real.

People will look you in the eye.

People will keep their promises. People can grow, can change, can be generous.

When in doubt, ignore the crowd (and forgive them). When possible, look for people instead.

Scale is overrated, again and again.

Focus

“let go of your attachment to the object you desire and make your desire the experience of staying focused on working toward your goal.”

Love is

Some people forget that love is tucking you in and kissing you

“Good night”

No matter how young or old you are

Some people don’t remember that love is

listening and laughing and asking questions

no matter what your age

Few recognize that love is
commitment, responsibility
no fun at all
unless

Love is
You and me

Written by Nikki Giovanni

Mornian

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know

victory nor defeat.”

~ Theodore Roosev

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Mornian

Self Talk.

There’s no more important criticism than self criticism.

There’s no amount of external validation that can undo the constant drone of internal criticism.

And negative self talk is hungry for external corroboration. One little voice in the ether that agrees with your internal critic is enough to put you in a tailspin.

The remedy for negative self talk, then, is not the search for unanimous praise from the outside world. It’s a hopeless journey, and one that destroys the work, because you will water it down in fear of that outside critic that amplifies your internal one.

The remedy is accurate and positive self talk. Endless amounts of it.

Not delusional affirmations or silly metaphysical pronouncements about the universe. No, merely the reassertion of obvious truths, a mantra that drives away the nonsense the lizard brain is selling as truth.

You cannot reason with negative self talk or somehow persuade it that the world disagrees. All you can do is surround it with positive self talk, drown it out and overwhelm it with concrete building blocks of great work, the combination of expectation, obligation and possibility.

When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.