How do you motivate yourself in the morning?

Hey Christian,

Both of the above recommendations are great. Working out will definitely get your blood flowing and body moving. Meditating also helps stabilize your thoughts and emotions.

My advice is get a solid ROUTINE. By having a routine, your body will become conditioned to follow it. If you just wake up everyday and kind of just do whatever until you finally wake up, then your body knows it can just slack off until IT feels like waking up.

Here is my routine, take from it what you like. Soon as I wake up, I pray. After a few minutes of that, I meditate and practice some deep breathing exercises. After 15 minutes of that, I take a nice hot shower followed by a cold shower. Then I prepare my morning smoothie.

If you can see, my body is conditioned with a solid routine and is getting everything it would need to wake up; stimulation- hot/cold shower, Glucose-Food,Mind Spirit balance-prayer/meditation. It really has no choice but to wake up at that point.

Hope that helps and let me know how it works out. Best of luck to ya bud!

I say set yourself up a series of rewards, treats if you will, like a great breakfast after a refreshing hot shower. Forget the cold shower part, no need to torture yourself. This is reward ville.

Next, set yourself to work while listening to your very favorite music and work to remain focused for that all critical first hour. Best of luck to you.

LLS

I concur on what you've said here. Working from home can be a blessing and a curse. You really need to set time aside for yourself. I'm as guilty as anyone of not doing this and wondering why people aren't busy working all day like me. Having a routine in my opinion is very important.

About 2.5 years ago I was working 9-5 at a large company in Melbourne. I was never overly motivated and did okay in the business. I went to Fitness First about 3-4 nights a week.

A new guy to our team was going to the same gym (just across the road from the office) in the mornings, and had been trying to convince me to go with him since day dot. As Summer approached I saw the value in it - more time to do fun things of a night time!

I gave it a try, it took some time getting used to, but I haven't looked back since. The results were - I started doing really well, to the point of smashing records within the business. Realising my potential I then went on to start a business myself, and then another one, with documents for a new venture to be signed this week. I'm pretty content.

To this day I still think about the direct correlation to me starting my morning workouts and my increase in production, focus and drive, especially in the morning - it has to be real, right? I still work out every morning (muay thai and crossfit now), and if I don't work out in the morning I feel lousy and have a terrible day. There is a bunch of empirical evidence supporting the value of morning workouts, I never paid attention to that and still don't, I just know what works for me and pushing the limits in the morning definitely does.

Give it a go!

Like the others said: meditation, exercise, routines. Place some sticky notes with motivating and inspiring quotes on the wall or on the desk where you can see them immediately when you wake up. Be thankful of what you've got. Have a clear plan or to-do list for each day.

You don't have to go to gym, exercising at home leaves more time for other fun. I use workout DVDs and free workouts from Fitness Blender. HIIT makes you sweat and gives an extra kick for the day. I do HIIT and strength training on alternate days. However, this is my personal preference, try to find the types of exercise which you like.

I'm with working out. It promotes proper blood circulation giving you more energy throughout the day. You don't have to be a "beast" in the gym like most gym rats would like you to. Jog, walk, swim are great forms of exercise.

I do pushups to help with blood flow and I immediately list to some afformations i had custom recorded. Amps your brain for success for the rest of the day