8 toxic habits to give up immediately in your morning routine for a better life
8 toxic habits to give up immediately in your morning for a better life.
Create a healthy morning routine by getting rid of bad habits that ruin your daily productivity and make you stressed.
Habits can make or break your life. Good habits if practiced daily will create a positive impact on our daily lives.
Whereas bad or toxic habits steer us away from attaining positive outcomes. Those habits make you stressed and overwhelmed all the time.
In today’s topic, we are going to address those 8 toxic morning habits to give up for a happy and productive day.
Morning is the time of our life when we wake up from a well-rested sleep. Your mind and brain are refreshed with new spaces for all those upcoming activities to fill up the rest of your day.
Choosing the right kind of habits in your morning is the ultimate deciding factor of the type of day you are going to have.
We are always very interested in knowing the type of perfect morning routine that makes us organized and productive.
But we skip to take notice of those toxic habits that spoil your morning rested brain. Toxic habits clog your brain to function properly.
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Let us start our topic in detail below and find out which are the 8 toxic habits that you must quit right now in your morning for a successful day:
8 toxic habits to give up immediately in the morning
1. Unable to get away from the snooze button:
Hitting the snooze button right at the time when your alarm goes off is a toxic habit that you need to cut.
Otherwise, you will have that need to go on clicking that snooze extending for another 5 minutes successively. This will only going to make you late to get up.
A perfect morning routine has to start with you waking up right when the alarm goes off.
Delaying that wake up time will only make you lazy and unwilling to get up to take on the beautiful day ahead.
2. Scrolling through social media first thing in the morning:
If you have the habit of scrambling for your phone to take a look at the new notification or email right when you wake up in the morning, now is the time to stop it!
Who cares what that influencer has posted in the prime hours of your early morning?
Scrolling through your social media feeds creates a negative impact on your fresh well rested brain with the unnecessary clutter of someone else’s life.
Similarly, give at least 30 minutes before you check your emails no matter how urgent they are.
Avoid clogging up your mind with news and updates on your beautiful morning.
You can save that time to follow some morning routine self-care. This will make you focused as well as ready to take on your daily activities.
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3. Lack of proper daily planning:
Deciding the night before will help you to stay organized in your next-day approach. If you are an office goer, get all your things ready the night before. Save yourself from last minute,
‘I don’t know what I will wear today‘!
This will give you extra time in your morning to do something more productive and easy. Early morning is the right time for priority tasks rather than wasting time on mundane.
You may use a planner to note down everything you are supposed to get down daily, weekly, and monthly. A simple daily to-do list is what I use to keep track of my daily tasks to be completed.
Avoid waiting until the last minute to find out what you need to do in your morning. This will save you from finding yourself at a loss.
You can download and start using this given below weekly planner for easily planning a week. Save yourself from the hassle of not knowing the tasks every week.
4. Staying dehydrated:
Having water to hydrate your body is the right habit to add to your morning routine.
Your body gets dehydrated in the morning after a long night’s sleep. Regular intake of water boosts your immune system making you energized and mentally alert.
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5. Lack of Exercise:
The habit of exercising may be a tiring process in the morning.
But regular exercise makes you mentally and physically fit. It helps you take on any challenge in the morning.
If you are someone like me who does not like to hit the gym, practicing 10 to 20 minutes of yoga, stretching, walking, or jogging will help you boost those energy chemicals kicking your early morning!
Never skip exercise in your morning habits as it helps to make you feel recharged and focused.
Thus, you become very proactive in your daily tasks with fewer chances of error.
Your work productivity and decision making skills will improve with a daily dose of exercise.
6. Practice Gratitude instead of talking about controversial topics:
Morning is the time of your day when you try to be grateful for your new day with so many opportunities in store for you.
Rather than starting a complex topic in the morning to discuss with anyone that will drag an argument or tension, you must resort to practicing gratitude.
You may start your gratitude list by reciting gratitude affirmation to yourself aloud or writing it on paper.
This may sound silly if you are new to gratitude practice, but truly if something is going to make your morning feel better it is the practice of gratitude.
Be grateful for all the little joys you have in your life.
So many people do not even have the basics that many of us should be fortunate enough to have. Practice this habit of saying your gratitude to be thankful for all these.
You will feel very free and happy in your mind, once this becomes a natural habit for your morning routine.
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7. Skipping Breakfast:
The habit of having a healthy breakfast will give you the proper nutrition right in the morning to take on your day head-on.
Never skip your breakfast excusing, ‘I don’t have time for breakfast now ‘.
An empty stomach will not give you the energy to work on your daily plan by making you unproductive and tired.
This is the reason waking up half an hour or an hour earlier than your scheduled wake up time is beneficial for adopting this healthy habit of having your breakfast.
Anything from cereal with milk or yogurt, toast with egg, and fruits with nuts helps you to add vitamins and protein to your morning meal.
Start building a good morning habit of having breakfast before you leave the house or begin your work from home for that extra productive power.
The toxic habit of skipping breakfast will only make you go hungry after a while with a lack of concentration and mindfulness. This is not something you would like to have while taking on any tasks.
8. Unlimited To-do list:
Your to-do list in the morning must be those tasks you can be able to handle with less error and finish right away.
Having a long to-do list will only make you feel overwhelmed and tired in a short time. Moreover, chances are your productivity and focus will go out of the window making you short of reaching your daily targets.
Create 1 or 2 maximum highly important work in your morning routine habits that you can finish off easily.
Adding an unlimited task list is better than being removed with good habits like doing less but completing all with no errors!
These above lists are the 8 toxic habits to give up in the morning for better.
One thing to remember any habit good or habit needs time to be adjusted to our lives.
Give it time to cut off one by one from your life by replacing it with good morning habits.
Toxic morning habits will not give you peace and make you unproductive at work. So, these habits are not worthy of your life to add any value.
If you know of any other toxic habits, you may share your thoughts in the below comment section.
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