5 Morning Habits to Start Your Day Right

Mornings can often determine a good day or a bad day. 

Here are 5 habits you can establish that will put you on the path to a great day.

Wake Up Earlier

In order to fit in a fantastic morning you’re going to need some extra time in your current routine to establish some new habits for yourself.

Give yourself at least an extra hour to begin to establish your new habits, this quiet time will give you a new sense of peace and allow you to complete your new habits without interruption. A new found joy for the morning sunrise just might be in your future.

Drink a Glass of Warm Water

Drinking a glass of warm water before your morning coffee is an excellent way to get your body going. It’s like oil for the body as it goes to work lubricating all of your internal systems. Drinking your warm water before your coffee gives your cellular system a chance to wake up and begin working.

Do a Stretching Routine

Stretch in the morning to wake your muscles and get them ready for the day. Find a routine that allows you to slowly wake the muscles and yet revives your system. 10 to 15 minutes is all you need to get your body awake and prepared for your day ahead.

Listen to Inspirational Music or an Audiobook

Starting your morning with music you find beautiful, or a book you find inspirational or motivational is the perfect way to set yourself up for success. It can give you something to look forward to in the morning, and helps you establish a mindset that is filled with purpose. Our minds are always ready for knowledge and inspiring music or books can give us that fresh approach each day.

List Your 3 To-Dos For The Day

In this busy life we can sometimes get overwhelmed by what we need to accomplish every single day. Writing down 3 things that must get done that day gives you a personal guideline to follow and it removes it from your subconscious mind. This is a great way to relieve the stress of trying to remember all those things you think you need to do. Studies show that if you write it down you are 7 times more likely to complete your task.

Giving yourself the gift of an extra hour per day to focus on you is one of the greatest gifts you will ever give yourself. Enjoy your day by starting it off right.

Cheers!

A Little Bit of Virgin Inspiration

Who would run their business like Richard Branson if they could? 
Well you can, all you need is a little bit of Virgin inspiration!

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson passes out beverages aboard a flight from New York to San Francisco.         (Photo: AP Photo/Virgin America, Bob Riha, Jr.)

Yesterday I was rolling along in my car and of course listening to my latest new craze called Periscope. Who has Periscope? Who loves Periscope?  I have become a Periscope fanatic!

Anyhow the scoper started to cover a topic that I don't hear about often enough, marketing your business with pizzazz. That all too forgotten technique of having fun while sharing information with your audience!!!

She was telling a story we all know too well. The flight attendant giving the safety presentation on a domestic flight and how those who were still awake when she started her boring monologue were reading, listening to their phones or talking to the person sitting next to them. We have all seen it a dozen times, the all too boring safety presentation on most plane flights. Boring, Boring Boring... No one listens and no one cares, including the poor flight attendant who has to perform this duty way to many times in her career.

Then the scoper said she was recently aboard a different airline flight and a video played on the small screen in front of her. The safety presentation was this amusing little video with a cast of fun loving characters performing the safety monologue, while at the same time dancing around and entertaining the audience. She realized when she looked around everyone seemed to be paying attention, almost everyone was watching the video and smiling. This she knew was how to market a business and get people to pay attention. Have fun, inform and entertain at the same time.

Image from the Virgin American safety presentation video. Credit: Virgin Airlines.

I knew what airline she was talking about, I have been on it before, and Virgin flights have even bigger marketing pizzazz than just their in-flight safety videos. They have taken the entire flight experience and given it a personal touch by dazzling us with amazing graphics and beautiful visions. From the moment we arrive at the check-in counter until the minute we de-board the plane we are enticed by their smart marketing techniques and graphic filled terminals that inspire fun days traveling to exotic destinations. The purple hued interior of their planes give a soft glow of warmth that envelopes us and their terminals are filled with gorgeous pictorials of people enjoying the world around them. They make us want to travel the world and even if we are sitting in coach we feel like royalty.

It's genius and yet so easy to replicate. It just takes a well thought out plan and a fun loving approach to your business marketing. So next time you are trying to market a new product or you are looking to brand yourself or your business start with this thought.

What would Richard Branson do?

Well I bet he would be cool, hip and have lots of fun in the process.

Cheers