How to reach success with these morning routine habits

Do you want to start your day with a BANG? Do you want to have a productive, military-style morning routine? Then follow this example.

1,5 years ago, I used to start my morning with a healthy habit of 2 hours of video games. Making me sluggish, tired, confused, and overall made me feel like a loser. I always wake up at 6 am and still do, and I need to go to school at 8 am.

This morning I started with a long run, making me sweaty, warm, energised and happy. Then straight after that, I came here.

The clock is 06:35 when I type this, I have been awake for 35 minutes, and I have already written 100 words and been on a 20-minute run, where I light run mostly until I special place where I run out at my highest speed. Then light run home again.

Do you want to be the same? Then have these habits:

1. Eat The Frog
2. Cold Shower
3. Meditation
4. Gratitude Journal
5. Go outside

These are the habits that I do every morning. I have recently switched up these habits to see which one I like the most and I also added in morning runs. But I was consistent with these four habits for over a year

1. Wake up
2. Cold Shower
3. Meditate
4. Eat The Frog

It was my error to not have a graduate journal as a habit. But I break down the science of my current one.

Firstly, going on a run, being outside, seeing nature, breathing in fresh air.

I do this simply to become more energised and so that I don’t miss this habit later in the day. There have been many days where I haven’t been outside for the first 2–3 hours simply because I was working hard.

I always feel bad if I don’t go outside early, so starting your day with an epic run will leave a BANG in your day.

I wake up, and then when I do my hard work task, I will have a lot of energy and focus. But keep in mind, don’t use your phone or check any notifications at all.

Secondly, ETF, eat the frog, doing the hardest work task at the start of your day.

Always before you do the ETF, you shouldn’t see a single notification or try to speak to any person. Eat the frog means: would you rather eat a disgusting frog, before or after a delicious feast?

If you would eat the feast first, you would not even enjoy the meal for you only dread the toad, then after you eat it, you have nothing to soath your mouth.

But if you simply get down with it, and eat the frog in one go, before soathing your mouth with the delicous feast.

The frog is the hardest work task of the day, and the feast is habits which is more easy and enjoyable to do.

So do the ETF to start your day with all of the hard work tasks done, and simply letting the day flow in.

The third habit is cold showers. I have been consistent at doing cold showers straight thing in the morning, but I have switched it with going on a run.

The run makes me warm, energised, wakes me up and overall makes me feel masculine as FUCK! But then I become slightly sluggish after ETF so this morning I will test to do the cold shower straight after ETF.

The cold shower should surprise you, wake you, and give you energy. The problem with starting every morning with a cold shower was that I delayed going outside by 2 hours.

So I switched it to after ETF, straight after I closed my laptop I took my cold shower. It will wake me up and give me energy after my last hour of tiring mental work.

Then the fourth habit is Mediation. I have been consistent with deep breath meditation, where you simply sit down, breathe deeply through the nose and try to focus on it.

The problem was that it became too automatic, and I couldn’t at all focus on my breath, in the end, I tried Wim Hof’s breathing exercise. It was much better, you must focus on it and you have a deep voice which wakes you up if you start to mind wander.

The point of meditation is focusing on the breath, getting a thought, and returning to breathing with no anger or regret. The point of mediation is getting a thought and focusing back on the breath.

The Wim Hof breathing exercise though flods your body with adrenaline and it’s much harder to mind wander. I always feel calm, happy and at peace after I did it.

Then at the end, I will gratitue journal. I take a notebook and simply write things I’m thankful for, mostly about other people. This habit should make you more thankful to people and more kind.

This is my morning routine that I’m testing. I’m already feeling extremely tired after the run. But this is why I have the Cold shower.

Try this morning routine, it will change you. Always have these five habits, but put them in the order which suits you. Some people feel awesome with doing the ETF without taking a cold shower or going outside.

Some want to meditate straight thing in the morning. Test things out to see which order suits your body and mind.

Beat the competition!