Morning Routines
It’s Monday and I don’t know about you, but damn, I don’t look forward the joint. Maybe you do and that’s cool. I think I know why my Mondays are jacked up. I don’t all the way enjoy what I have to do on Monday or where my time goes. I think I might be getting burnout from my job. I start thinking about Monday on Sunday morning or at least by Sunday afternoon and by Sunday night, slight dread might kick in. It’s pretty wack right now. But to be honest, it’s always kind of been that way for me and Monday. I know it’s me. Monday is what it is.
Now I could blame it all on school and the crappy pandemic, but that’s just not the move in life. I have been setting my alarm to wake up by 6:00 am so that I can get up and work out before school and get my brain together. I need to have a brain and some sort of a day before it gets inundated with kids calling my last name, spelling requests, help with fractions, and more school related shenanigans. For the past couple of months, I’ve made it a couple of times in terms of waking up doing my workout and putting myself in the right mindset to achieve throughout the day and keep a sense of calm through it all. Most mornings I wake up, but there is a strong gravitational pull from my bed mixed with the wildest sense of apathy that I might have come across in a while. I fight to get up but my brain and body aren’t having it. I can’t do it anymore. I need a rocket launcher to get out of bed before school. I need will power and a purpose beyond work. I think I am getting there.
I just have to do it. There are no other options. Wake up, come back to earth, accept it, workout, and put calories in my body then take a small break. Other mornings I might throw some writing in there, but that will be a bonus. The writing will get done during the day though. I’m on it. I think there might be something to the energy in April for me personally, or maybe it’s just the sun shining through all of a sudden. Whatever it is it works for me. It might be the new found warmth. Anyway, I woke up today and I did the work out. It was nothing major, but it was phenomenal still. My brain and my body need that jolt from the lethargy of sleep. I need the endorphins to start my day off right with these kids and their questions. I need the calm it provides to sit through endless hours of zoom and time wasted even though people think it’s productive. This morning routine is nothing new, but my commitment to it will be my saving grace and sanctuary.
Learning yourself is a lifetime process. I think I forgot somewhere I needed to have more downtime and rest. I’ve learned I need to move. I need to read. I also need two hours to myself in the morning before I interact with other people just so I can get my thoughts together. I don’t know why it’s that way, but it is. I’m accepting it. I am also accepting I have to wake up and work out to get my mind right. No one cares what happens before you get to work, it’s just the reality of it. However, what you do before you arrive at your place of work means everything for how you will interact with the day and others throughout. Whether it’s working out, making love, listening to 2Chainz, or drinking Earl Grey tea, do what you have to do to have a spectacular morning. It all starts with the morning routine.