Morning Routines

Day 156 / 366

I’m trying to develop a morning routine for myself again. The pre-pandemic version of me was a morning person, and I used to get a lot done in the 4 AM — 8 AM period. But that is a skill that I’ve lost, and I am trying to get it back again.

Yesterday was my first attempt at writing a blog in the morning instead of at the end of the day. And it was weird. It was tough to come up with an idea of what to write about. Usually, throughout the day, I will come across a few things, a few sentences and I will make a mental note of them. This way at the end of the day I usually have 2–3 topics in my head that I could write a blog about. But at the start of the day, my mind is blank. And it’s just not trained to pick a topic out of thin air and write about it.

Last night felt weird as well. As the clock was approaching 12 I had the usual anxiety of writing the blog, even though I had already written it. And as I woke up today, and I had nothing to write about, I started wondering if it was even a good idea to write in the morning.

When you try to develop a good habit, there will always be a part of you that will try to stop you from doing that, justifying that it's a bad idea. This part of you craves comfort and despises hard things. But you can only grow by doing hard things, so you need to ignore these thoughts and keep moving forward. Trust the process, as they say.

These are some of the excuses that my brain came up with to get out of writing this blog post

You should focus the time in the morning to prepare for the office work, which is way more important

You have no topics to write about, and you will end up writing a shitty blog anyways. Might as well wait till the evening till you have anything to write about

No one cares about your stupid routines, resolutions, or plans. Just go to the office, write at 11 PM as always and no one will even notice

And yet, I am glad that I decided to write. I know the next few blogs are going to suck. But I will quickly adapt to it. And soon I will start stacking some more good habits with this one and maybe I can become a morning person once again.