Your daily habits and routines make up a big part of your life and your happiness! Creating healthy daily habits and routines that benefit you instead of stress you out, will contribute to a healthy mind and body! Sometimes we let ourselves get in the habit of rushing through things and being mindless. This behaviour puts your life on default.
When we create a healthy daily routine and practice good habits, we no longer overthink everything. We simply do the things we need to do! And when we focus on the results we want, instead of the work needed, the work feels easier and you keep your eye on the prize!
Our success doesn’t come from one big change. It comes from making small, positive changes in our day-to-day lives. Choose to be happy, productive and motivated.
We’ve covered multi-tasking and discovered how it’s actually better in so many ways to focus on one thing at a time, instead. You’ll enhance your sense of peace when you can give your full attention to what you’re doing and live in the moment. Another thing that aids in happiness is to embrace habits and routines. Creating rituals throughout your day can provide you with all sorts of benefits.
Roles Understood
When you engage in regular habits, particularly among groups like family or co-workers, those involved in these routines begin to understand their expected role. There can be some peace of mind in this type of understanding. Having a general idea of what is expected of you or what you will be doing is reassuring.
Fewer Miscommunications
Again, when everyone knows the part they play in regular routines, there are fewer miscommunications. Everyone is on the same page, and things get done in a relatively efficient and timely manner.
Better Performance
In addition, habits and routine can lead to better performance, for the most part. With enhanced communication and anticipated roles, people can smoothly move through their daily tasks in a way that requires less thought. Fewer mistakes lead to a superior end result or product.
Enhanced Prioritizing
Prioritizing helps to ensure your day goes great and that the important things get done. Having a regular routine in place makes it easier to add those important things into your day. When you already know what to expect, making a few shifts in order to accommodate important stuff really isn’t as big of a deal.
Sense of Security
Habit and routine give a great sense of security. This helps eliminate much of the unknown. When you can ease into a regular routine and take part in activities on an anticipated schedule, it just feels comforting. Again, this is especially true among groups, but it also applies to you as an individual.
Less Stress
When striving for added calm in your life, try adding some regular habits or routines you can count on. You’ll be surprised at just how much stress this will eliminate for you. All of the reasons above combined result in this final benefit.
Knowing what’s expected of you, avoiding arguments or mistakes due to miscommunications, being able to attend to the most important activities, and feeling secure all result in the elimination of stress in your life.
That’s something we all want, isn’t it?!
Here are some routine and habit ideas for you to try!
Healthy Daily Routine For Happiness
- Wake up 20 minutes before everyone else
- Make your bed
- Remind yourself to live your day mindfully! Get off of autopilot
- Set your intentions for the day. How do you want this day to go
- Journal, but write it every day as if it’s already true! It’s called scripting! Read more about that here- Law of attraction journal
- Drink a glass of lemon water
- Write down 5 things you are grateful for
- Write down 3 things you love about yourself
- Give someone a compliment
- Spend 10 minutes in meditation
- Move your body for 10 minutes
- Organize the day ahead and DO THE HARDEST TASKS, FIRST
- Eat a healthy, high vibe breakfast
- Do a random act of kindness
- Take the stairs
- Hydrate throughout the day
- Grab a healthy lunch
- Sneak in a little exercise
- Prioritize the remainder of your day
- ENJOY a healthy dinner
- Clean up before bed
- Make some SMART goals
- Set aside 10 minutes to write down your passion in life
- Take some time to relax
- Plan ahead for the next day
- Read
- Go to bed at a decent hour
- If you work out in the morning, set out your workout equipment and clothing the night before
- Wipe down your bathroom after your shower. The bathroom is wet and easy to clean!
- Make to do lists, but instead of the tasks, write down the results you want!
- Do the hard things first
- Create (and stay on) a mindful budget
- Plan your day the night before
Hopefully, knowing the benefits of a healthy daily routine for a healthy, happy mind and body can help motivate you to take action and make some changes in your own daily life. Give it a try to see just how much happier and healthier you are!