My Morning Gratitude And Affirmation Practice

I always start my morning with personal development, affirmations and gratitude. My affirmations are super personal to me as they should be to you. 

This blog post covers ALL the details on the morning practice that has not only changed my business but my life! I cover:

• Personal Development

• Affirmations: 10 goals as if they have already happened

• Gratitude: 5 things I am thankful for that day

MY GENERAL MORNING ROUTINE

WAKE UP + MOMMY JUICE

Wake up and make my Mommy Juice to get my day started and energized!

READ PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Lately, I have been reading 3 books:

• The 10X Rule by: Grant Cardone

• Excellence Wins by: Horst Schulze

• The Road Back To You by: Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile 

Once I have had my Mommy Juice and read my personal development books, my mind is in a very positive, high functioning place. I do not look at my phone before this. I have my phone with me but I have all of my notifications turned off. The first thing I am fueling my body with is something really positive in the morning.

VISION BOARD

I open up my digital planner and go to the “Affirmations” tab. 

• The first page within the “Affirmations” tab is my Vision Board. Since we are at the end of the year, I totally suggest to everyone to create a Vision Board. On my Vision Board, I have things like:

  
  BUSINESS GOALS

• 5X Top 10 Team

• Have 1 of my coaches in the Top 10

• Selling my West Point House

• Leading 5 Elite Coaches

  PERSONAL GOALS

• Being present with my boys

• Income goals for my family

• Then I swipe over to what looks like a blank piece of paper (but digital) and I write out my affirmations and gratitude. I start with gratitude.

GRATITUDE

I know I use a digital planner, but the digital pen acts like a real pen and paper when I write out my gratitude and affirmations. You can use regular paper and pen. There is a mind-body connection when you sit down and write. 

• Gratitude is saying “thank you” for the things you have. 

• I write out 5 things that I am thankful for. Here are mine:

  • I am thankful for my healthy boys.

  • I am thankful for my supportive husband. 

  • I am thankful for a business that brings me joy.

  • I am thankful for our beautiful home to raise our boys in.

  • I am thankful for the opportunity to create true financial freedom for my family and others. 

• Remember, these “I am thankful statements” change. These are things you are thankful for that day so it may change from day to day. It can be “I am thankful that my kids slept through the night.” Or, “I am thankful for the sun rising before me as I write these.”

• This is a great way to start with the things you are thankful for each day. This puts you in a very positive mindset of abundance. You are looking for the beauty around you vs. complaining about things in your life.

AFFIRMATIONS

Affirmations, just like gratitude, will be very personal to you. My affirmations surround what I am working towards and the vision I have for myself personally and for my family. The thing with affirmations is you don’t want to say “we are going to”  or “I will” you need to say “I am” in all of your statements or write them down as if the goal has already been met. 

• I am a 5X Top Ten Coach

• I am creating other Top Ten Leaders

• I am a kind, loving and patient Mom. 

• I am vacationing in my family’s Lake Home.

• I am attracting incredible leaders to me. 

• I am earning $X amount of money per week.

PROVEN BY SCIENCE

I know it sounds crazy, but most of the affirmations I write down are happening. Science has backed that the affirmations you are writing down whether or not you know how to get there come true once you write them down every day. There is a saying “you don’t have to see the whole staircase before taking the first step” and that is what these affirmations do for you. It lets you see the goal at the top of the staircase and your brain starts moving us in the direction of those goals because that is where we are telling our brain we are going. Your brain now is working to get you to the goal you want to achieve.  

TYPES OF JOURNALS YOU CAN USE

• My Digital Planner

• Rachel Hollis’s Start Today Journal 

  • Epiosde 72 of the Rise Together Podcast has more details on this journal.

• Regular Notebook

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