Thrive series: The morning routine you desperately need

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You're listening to the healthy and thriving career moms podcast, where every week you will learn about healthier habits and hacks to create and support a healthy and thriving lifestyle as a busy mum. I'm your host, Wendy. And I truly believe that the best gift you can give to your family and the. It's a healthy, thriving.

You let's dive in.

Hi, lovely and welcome to today's episode where I'm going to be talking about morning routine and why having a morning routine is so imperative to setting you

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up as a busy mom, to be healthy and thriving in your day. But before I get stuck in, I just want to caveat all of this by saying to you that I am.

A morning person. I'm married to one. My best friend is one. My child is one. I am a night owl. I thrive more in the evenings, but what I've learned to do is to create a morning routine that works for me. And that helps to set my day up in the right. And really that comes down to a few reasons. I believe as a busy mom, you deserve the time to get your head in the right place before you start the day.

But before the rest of the world and your family

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requires your attention and wants you to meet their every need. Number two, because when you start the. Early. And by early, I mean, before the rest of your family are requiring your attention, you feel a sense of calm and you feel like you're in control.

And when you start your day, right, you have time to plan and have the time for yourself early in the morning. So a lot of moms will say to me, I just don't have time for myself. And then when I look at what they're doing with their habits, And there's no judgment here because I do the same occasionally myself, where you might stay up late, bingeing the Netflix.

So you

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get to bed late and then you're too tired in the morning to wake up. So you sleep in and then your kids are waking you up and then it's go, go, go, and it's rush, rush, rush out the door and actually had you not watched that next episode. And you've got yourself off to bed and set your alarm for 15, 20 minutes earlier than your kids wake up naturally.

You would have the opportunity to get the jumpstart on the day. And so you're running the day and the day is not running. And the other thing about having that morning routine is that it actually forces not hours like me to get to bed earlier because you know that you need the rest because I am just not good

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on a lack of sleep.

I can do it for one or two nights, but then it really starts to catch up with me and it starts to affect my mood starts to affect how I'm eating. I'll be craving lots of carbohydrates or the, you know, the carbohydrates that don't serve me, put it that way. And that sat me of energy and make me bloated and just the it's all just a vicious cycle.

So for me, getting great sleep is really important to me. And I am going to do a whole episode on sleep and why that is so crucial to juggling mum life. But for now just know that sleep is absolutely one of the cornerstone habits of your life. And when you have good sleep, if there's a

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reason that they use sleep deprivation as a torture mechanism in the war, As humans, we do not function well without proper sleep.

So by knowing you've got to get up early, it's going to make you go to bed earlier, which is just going to make sure that you get all the rest that you need. And this triggers a chain reaction. When you wake up early, what happens is you feel nicer as a person, even though I appreciate the first few times you do it, you might not feel like a nicer person, but you do.

You absolutely get used to it. Your body gets used to whatever you give it or train it to do. And with the mindset. And the intention of why you're doing it, that is going to frame it for you. And this

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translates into you being a nicer person to other people, hopefully, and that in turn gets other people behaving more nicely towards you again, hopefully.

And however, bear in mind that that all begins with you. You are the deciding factor that will ignite this by creating morning routine networks for you. So I just wanted to share some of the things that I do as a part of my morning routine. So one part of it is definitely having. Set of nutrition habits at the start of my day.

And what that means is hydrating and feeding my body with nutrients it needs. So what I like to do first thing in the morning when I wake

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up, I always have a glass of water next to my bed in case, you know, I wake up in the night, I'm thirsty, which doesn't actually happen. I take it, I take a glass of water to bed with me every night.

I never ended up drinking it. Occasionally, if I'm working up in the night by my little girl, then I will maybe have a sip of water before I get back into bed. But what I tend to do is actually drink that whole glass of water first thing, because it's right there. And that hydration because your body has been dehydrated overnight because it's, you know, being using, you know, doing all of its repair and all the things it needs to do.

And this is so great for increasing energy levels. And so having that hydration your body first thing, but you might like a hot cup of water and

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lemon, or you might like a cup of tea or a cup of coffee. The only thing I'd say about having a cup of tea or coffee first thing in the morning is actually that caffeine is quite stressful on the body.

And you don't necessarily want to be putting your body in a state of stress before it's even started the day. So another thing I like to do is actually have one of my fist sticks, which is an energy for stick that I use with my Arbonne supplements. I take it's part of my album business. That is just such a great thing because it's giving me all my B12, which gives me my energy.

It's firing up my concentration and it's giving me that natural hits of energy without that inevitable

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crash that comes after you've had the sort of chemical caffeine. And so that's what I love to have. And for me, the other thing that I aim to do is to make sure I have my green shots every morning, which is something that I talk about in another episode.

And this is something you'll probably see me doing on Instagram as well, having my morning green shot and what that looks like. And that's just something that I have first thing to really wake up. Fire me up for the day and just get, really get working on supporting my gut health, which is so, so crucial.

And then what I'll do a little bit later on from that is have a high protein breakfast, because this is something that keeps me fuller

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for longer. And one of the things we love to do in our house is make our daily smoothies, or we might do other variations, protein, oats, protein, pancakes, all sorts of things, but always high protein.

Protein is king first thing in the day. We need protein to fire up our muscles, our brains, and for woman, it is recommended that the daily intake of protein should be around 46 grams. And that's, if you set a tree, if you're exercising, if you're very active, you're going to need more. And just to give you an example, an egg has six grams of protein in it.

So imagine how much, how many eggs you'd have to consume to hit that protein quota. So that's why I love to use a protein supplements. I use Alban's vegan, clean protein stuff.

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I'll link to that in the show notes. So you can read more about that, but I love the fact that that's a clean protein, it's Ross, cranberry, and pea protein derived.

And it's just something that I've really discovered protein is king. It's not just for bodybuilders. It's not for, just for gym bunnies. It's actually for everyday folks like me and you. And again, I love to make sure that my daughter has a high protein breakfast as well to really get her brain focused with.

So I've got some great recipes I can share with you as well. But as I say, I will link to this in the show notes, but yeah, for me having those sort of nutrition habits, first thing in the day is again, just setting

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my body up with the right hydration, the right vitamins and minerals that it needs to fire up for the day.

And then what I actually then do. So after I had my green shots and I will sort of go and sit quietly in the lounge, or I might get back into bed once I've done that, but I make sure that I wake up and that I am moving because that momentum is going to wake me up, especially as a non morning person who maybe struggles a bit, you might need to splash your face with some water.

It's going to take a couple of days to get yourself in that routine. And unfortunately, it's really quick to get out of the routine. All it takes is one or two days of missing your morning routine, and you feel like you're back to square

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one, but that's also a motivation to keep going with it all. You ready to start or reset your healthy habits?

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So, something I like to do for accountability is be a part of what I call. And you've maybe seen this again on my Instagram stories is the be well club. And that's something that I join every day. It's a free community as part of the wider Auburn community. And it's a bunch of us who really like to start our day in.

And it's all based around the concept of the book, the miracle morning by a guy called Hal Elrod. Now I read this book years and years and years ago, and it was such a game changer in my life. That it's something that I have been following

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ever since, even when back my little girl was a baby. Morning routine.

Your morning can be very different to what time somebody else's morning, especially if you're a shift worker, et cetera. So you do need to adjust this, but I will link to this book in the show notes and the whole concept is the not so obvious secret, guaranteed to transform your life before 8:00 AM. Now again, the ATM could be different for different.

But this is honestly one of the most life-changing books I've ever, ever read. Okay. And you, and you'll find some great practices to have, start your day well and create the life that you really want, which is one that's set with

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intention. Now what we follow in the be well community, which is a call that we all jump on.

There's a Facebook group. Watch the live in the group, but I like to join the zoom call and my camera is always off just to say, because ain't nobody want to see that at six 30 in the morning. And yeah, the court is at six 30 and we jump on and that's UK time. Obviously people around the world are catching up in the Facebook group at the time of day.

That's, you know, their version of that. And we go through an acronym called be great and be great stands for breathing energy gratitude. Reading

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education affirmations. And so it's a half an hour call where we walk through and is that is a health coach, like myself who will lead people through that process.

So we'll do some meditation and breathing for a couple of minutes. We'll get the energy pumping. So we might, you know, jump around. I always love it because I'm always like, what's today's song going to be. And you know, you get boogieing around and some people have the cameras off. So you see people dancing around it.

So late. Normally Jessie's at that point, she's there doing it with me alongside me. And it's just a great way to set our intention for the day. And she's like, mommy, what songs are going to be? And then G

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stands for gratitude. So we take some time, the coach will maybe get us to focus on a particular thing that day that we're grateful for.

And that just really inspires. We sort of write our gratitude list of five things that we are so grateful for, and that could be a safety. A roof over our heads, our loving family food and our bellies, whatever it is. And honestly, the amount of joy that sparks from having gratitude for what we have around us every day is just so imperative R stands for reading.

So we do five minutes of reading. So again, you could actually be reading the miracle morning book as part of this at the same time, and everybody's

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sort of this great book recommendations. Isn't part of the well club. We also have Sunday book clubs, so that's cool. You can join at 10. On a Sunday morning, UK time where somebody, we know we talk about book clubs.

So somebody would talk to you about a book and why it's been so great. And again, just such a fantastic community. We also have mindset Mondays. We also have a healthy habits Wednesdays. So this is just a free group that. We'll be able to add you into where you are just going to get such incredible personal developments that people would pay for, but you actually just get that as part of being a part of my community.

So our link to more information in the show notes on

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how you can join this community east sounds education. So the coach will do sort of a five or so minutes empowerment talk just to give you, set you up with some tips and tricks and skills and things for the day. And then we do some affirmations, which are the positive.

I am statements. Again, we might have a specific focus topic or just general. And if you're hearing this for the first time, you think you was all this mumbo jumbo, don't worry. There is a briefing in the group that is a little 10 minute video you can watch, which will explain all of this and the science behind it and why it works.

And also, as I say, this is where the book really

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sets the scene for it. And we've just taken the book and there's a community of eyes that has been that this is so life-changing that we're going to start a community around this. It is so amazing. And then the final. On the end of be great is T to do so then we make a list of our sort of most important actions and things that we need to achieve for the day.

And then we log off and then that's it like you're set up and you're ready to roll with the day. And I just think that is just such an incredible thing. Half an hour. You can carve out in your day to be able to do this and set you up for the day. Combine that with great nutrition habits and great supplements

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to fire up your energy, get those muscles, the brain activated all that.

For me, those things, those habits in the morning is essentially what my morning routine is. That's it? Nothing complicated. Yes. It's taken. Focus and intention to get into that morning routine, but honestly, the difference in terms of what I'm able to achieve with the day, because I'm running the day, the day's not running me, I'm focused, I'm calm.

Have my intention set around what I'm achieving with the day. I've also started in a place where I've taken some time out for self-care or you might be listening to this and think, oh, that's so well and good for you, Wendy. But like

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six 30 doesn't work for me. I can't do that. I've got all these reasons why I can't do that.

Fine. That's your perception of things. And I would just like to encourage you to maybe reframe that and think, well, okay. It might not be perfect. I might be doing it with my child or my family. And, you know, for me done is better than perfect. Trying something, you know, to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

If you're constantly finding like you're struggling for time in your day, that you never get time for yourself, that you're always stressed, you're always busy. Your mind's

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always cluttered all the things. Well, why wouldn't you try this to see if it could work for you? And if it doesn't cool, it doesn't.

But actually I just. In life. There's a reason that information is presented to us at a specific point of our life and time, and there's a reason for it. So I just really want to encourage you to take the leap and try this and see if it works for you. If anything, get the book the miracle morning by Hal Elrod and give it a read and see if you can create a morning routine for you that works in your life and for your needs.

And that it's going to serve you as a busy. I also

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believe that evening routine is a really important factor, which I'm going to talk about in future episode. But again, it's just about how we start and end our day. Just really frames everything. It's that bookend for the start and the end of the day, which rarely gives you that sense of calm and that sense of control in your.

So I hope that has inspired you today to think, well, what is my morning routine? Like, is it setting me up for efficiency to thrive with health and wellbeing in my life? Or is it actually causing me more stress? And if your morning routine, if you don't have a routine, if you'd

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literally the alarms going off and you snoozed it 20 times, and then you're rushing out the door and then all the things.

Maybe this is the sign. Maybe this is the sign to try something new, to try something different, to see how you can absolutely benefit from a morning routine to really shape your day. So I hope this isn't fired you. Please reach out to me in DMS and let's talk some more about this, and I look forward to speaking to you about this on future episodes.

When I talk about evening routine and how that will work for you. Thank you for tuning in today. I'm. For for you. If this

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episode has resonated, make sure you visit Wendy griffiths.co.uk to discover more of my content and my fantastic free resources to support you in thriving. Or if you'd like to continue the conversation further, drop me a DM by Instagram at Wendy Griffith.

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