The Morning Makeover Challenge!

I love mornings - as long as they start after 10 am! But seriously, I really do love mornings. Each new day brings new opportunities and it’s a chance to start fresh and do better. How you start your day, or more specifically how you spend those first few morning hours, has a big impact on the rest of it. You are setting the tone for your entire day. That’s why making over your morning is so important. It's why I never miss my morning Power Hour.  It’s about much more than those first few hours.


I’m sure you’ve experienced this yourself. You set an early alarm to make sure you have time for exercise, meditation, or simply some much needed “me time”. You have every intention of getting up and doing whatever you’re setting out to do when you set the alarm in the first place. Some mornings - hopefully most mornings - you get up when the alarm goes off and go for that walk, do your meditation exercise, or read. Then there are those days when you just can’t make yourself get up. You hit the snooze button multiple times, or turn the alarm off altogether and go back to sleep. Sound familiar?

Think about how the rest of those days went. Did you notice a difference in how you felt? How much did you get done on the mornings when you got up when the alarm first went off? Were you able to do all the things you set out to do? How did those days compare to the ones when you hit the snooze button over and over again?

If I had to take a guess, I’d say that the mornings when you got up as soon as the alarm went off went a lot better. I bet you accomplished what you had planned to do. Sure, you may have been tired. But once you started your routine, I'll bet you noticed you felt more energy. And chances are that sleeping through the snooze button didn’t just affect your morning, but the entire rest of your day. You set the tone for how your day is going to go first thing in the morning. That’s what the old saying about getting up on the wrong side of the bed is about. So let’s make sure we get up on the right side and start our day off in a positive and productive way.


Over the course of the next seven days, I want to guide you through the process of making over your morning. As we’ve already established, this is an important task and a good thing to work on. Not only will you enjoy your mornings more even if the alarm goes off much earlier than you’d like, it will make the entire rest of your day go much smoother.

Ready for the Morning Makeover Challenge? Let's do this!