Waking up in the morning – most of us would rather just pull the covers over our heads and snooze a few times. But in order to start the day productively and relaxed, we should avoid these mistakes in the morning.
Snoozed too long in the morning, kept hitting the snooze button, lost on Instagram and forgot the time. Now get ready and off to work. And boom, the day has only just begun and we are already super stressed. A positive start to the day already influences the rest of the day. Because if you leave the house in a good mood, nothing will upset you that easily.
Various factors are responsible for how we manage to get our day off to a good start. Among others, these 9 mistakes we all make.
1. First look at the smartphone
Most of us let our smartphone wake us up in the morning. Of course, you can then also check messages and emails, scroll through various social media channels for a moment. But all this takes up valuable time – especially answering messages and emails – which we usually don’t have in the morning and which produces stress in the end. It can actually wait until after our morning routine, when we have done everything important that affects us. And here we come to point two.
2. Not having a morning routine
Establishing a routine in the morning is incredibly important. If you let the morning ripple by like this, you sometimes waste the most productive time of the day. Structure and reliability are therefore incredibly important and until you have that, it takes about 21 days to establish a morning routine and make processes a habit, productivity expert Martin Geiger explains to impuls.de.
3. Oversleeping and napping
“The snooze button is the downfall of any morning routine,” warns Geiger. And everyone knows immediately what is meant and yet we do it to ourselves every morning. Fall asleep, wake up, fall asleep, wake up… crap, it’s so late. You quickly wasted all the valuable minutes for a relaxed start to the day and still not recovered, because snoozing is simply not relaxing, it only delays getting up. A bad start to the day.
Tip: If you use a conventional alarm clock without a snooze button, you won’t even be tempted.
4. Going to bed and waking up at different times
According to a study by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, those who regularly go to bed and get up at the same time feel rested, rested and fit. This was proven above all by the grades of the students that the scientists examined for this experiment. Those with a regular sleep schedule got better grades, while those with irregular sleep patterns were left behind. That means: The more regularly we sleep, the more successful we are because our performance remains consistently high. If you consider that heavily fluctuating sleep times completely confuse our inner clock, this makes perfect sense. Therefore, the following also applies here: establish habits and jump out of bed fit in the morning.
5. Start the day without a plan
First wake up and then we’ll see what we’re going to do with this day… You can do it that way, but it doesn’t work if you want to rip something. The crux of the matter is that if you start the day without a plan, you waste a lot of time waiting for something to happen that you can react to instead of taking action and driving things forward yourself. Therefore, it is best to write a list the night before of the things you want to do the next day.
6. Exercise in the morning drives away sorrow and worry
Yes, it’s tough: as soon as we’ve struggled out of the warm bed, we’re supposed to put on our jogging shoes and venture out into the cold to get our tired bodies going. But: It helps. Sport stimulates the circulation, wakes you up and releases endorphins – there is really no better way to start the day. Plus point: When half asleep, it runs almost by itself.
7. Already doing too much in the morning
Our to-do list is long. Sport, breakfast, reading the newspaper, tidying up a bit, listening to podcasts, checking social media and maybe turning on a washing machine. Your heart rate increases as you write. Better to gradually establish small routines first. When we want too much, we often fail because it overwhelms us or because we simply didn’t have the time in mind. This is frustrating and we often just leave it as it is instead of adjusting the goals again.
8. Doing too many things at once
You actually want to make yourself some coffee, collect things that are lying around on the way to the kitchen, check your emails and have your mother on the phone who really wants to know something. Then it occurs to you that you still have to look for your notebook and actually have no idea which pocket the wallet is in. You end up leaving the house without coffee and feeling stressed. It’s best to do one thing at a time rather than many things at once and just focus on that. Other things that take up too much time in the morning anyway, such as packing your bag and thinking about which outfit to wear, you can do the night before.
9. Not commuting to work
Answering e-mails, creating to-do lists, checking social media, all of this can be easily done on the way to the office. If you travel by train, you can mentally and mentally prepare for your first appointments or find out about interesting topics via podcasts. Training and development to go. You can also integrate your sports program into your commute to work. Jogging to the office, cycling to work or simply getting off one station earlier and walking the rest of the way – the main thing is to get some exercise before you sit at your desk all day. Wake up and clear your head.