If you’re like most people, the first thing you do in the morning as soon as you wake up is grab your phone. You start checking your emails, followed by your Facebook notifications, Instagram likes and maybe your latest tweets. From there, you might get up and go about your morning rituals.
Before, we used to simply wake up, snooze the alarm clock (now replaced by our phones), head to the bathroom and simply get ready for work or school. Some of us might grab the newspaper and eat a quick breakfast.
Times have changed!
If you’re like me, I tend to spend 15-20min in the morning just going over notifications and updates on my phone.
I was at Inbound 2013 in Boston, a conference hosted by Hubspot.com, where Arianna Huffington spoke about how she doesn’t bring any electronics in her bedroom when she goes to sleep.
I tried doing that but couldn’t do it. Instead, I started charging my phone a little further away from my bed.
I started doing this as well:
Things I Do As Soon as I Wake Up
1. Take a deep breath (5 seconds) and exhale (Do this 5 times)
It’s the best way for stretching your body while still in bed. It wakes up all your organs by injecting lots of oxygen!
2. Be thankful for being alive
That puts a smile on my face because this means I have another day to make a difference in this world.
3. Kiss your significant other – or yourself 🙂
My wife is the first person I’m nice to in the morning.