{"id":4344,"date":"2020-10-08T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T12:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomsoup.com\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2021-09-19T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:33:51","slug":"the-importance-of-morning-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloomsoup.com\/the-importance-of-morning-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Morning Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of my most striking revelations in recent years has been the importance of morning rituals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re tired of chaotic days and abandoned goals, this is how to regain control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s dive in. But first, a familiar scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waking up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You wake up without an alarm and laze in bed, idly scrolling through the socials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Switching to the news, you get blasted in the face with negativity for half an hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slowly, you drag yourself out of bed and search forlornly for your running gear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hungry, you decide to eat breakfast instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you wonder whether you should go for coffee or start that side project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unsure what you’re in the mood for, you get sucked into a YouTube spiral, watching hilarious cat videos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By this time, it’s late morning and your most productive hours are behind you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sequence of events constitutes a morning ritual, just an unproductive and largely unrewarding one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s also one I’ve repeated often. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, self-indulgence is great at the time, but afterwards you feel like a wastrel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This type of morning ritual is structureless, resulting in confusion and inaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We waste inordinate time thinking about what to do next instead of acting with intention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, the afternoon rolls around and we have little to show for our day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our most important aims remain undone, with compounding frustration and self-castigation soon after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death\u2019s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it\u2026 Life is long if you know how to use it.” Seneca<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The importance of morning rituals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It was only when I became more intentional about my morning rituals that I experienced significant life shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n