Why You Should Have a Morning Routine
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2015
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Our willpower is greatest in the morning – before we’ve had to fend off the slew of issues and choices that come our way. In other words, if you struggle to keep a given commitment to yourself/your well-being, you’ll likely be more successful making it part of your morning routine as opposed to holding off until later in the day.
(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Brock Armstrong)
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| 0:00.0 | The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson |
| 0:07.0 | and is narrated by Brock Armstrong. |
| 0:14.0 | Why you should have a morning routine. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's consider a tale of two mornings. |
| 0:38.1 | The alarm blares. You have exactly 75 minutes to be out the door. After relinquishing 15 of those to one snooze period and a few minutes on the phone, checking email and Facebook, you're up. You put together coffee, feed the dog, let her outside, get the kids up, and help everyone grab something to eat. |
| 0:42.7 | Within 10 minutes, the clamor and chaos of the morning rush has taken over your thinking, |
| 0:48.0 | in addition to the nagging reminder that you still have a few emails to send out before the first meeting at 9 a.m. |
| 0:53.1 | So much for easing into the day, even with the tag team approach made possible by your partner, |
| 0:56.5 | it's still a major production to hit the shower and get ready. |
| 1:03.0 | There are bags to be packed, bills or homework to be gathered, and final goodbyes to be said, and everyone heads out the door. |
| 1:07.4 | When you get to work, it's a dash to fit in several tasks before 9 a.m. |
| 1:11.4 | Somehow you keep waiting for a quiet moment to pull your thoughts together, to breathe, |
| 1:16.5 | and catch up with yourself, but the chance keeps further distancing itself like a teasing mirage in the desert. Later, you say, at lunch, after work, at night? Wait a second. I forgot my lunch again, |
| 1:22.4 | didn't I? Now, let's look at a better way. Second scenario. |
| 1:28.3 | The alarm goes off. This time, you have two hours and thirty minutes. |
| 1:33.3 | No snooze at this hour, especially if you want to stay in the good graces of your partner. |
| 1:37.3 | Before anyone else is up, you grab your ready-made coffee, |
| 1:41.3 | gotta love pre-programming options, and slip quietly into a remote |
| 1:46.8 | corner of the house where everything you need is already there. Your phone is off limits, |
| 1:52.2 | except for music to help you wake up. Consider it a sound cue to help support your circadian |
| 1:57.9 | wake-up cycle. After reading or journaling for a few minutes, you do some |
| 2:02.9 | meditation perhaps, and some light yoga or dynamic stretching, and get ready for your morning |
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