471 - A Day in the Life - Morning Routines

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this podcast series, I will be sharing how my habits, routines, and the different ways I think about time. This week I’ll be sharing my morning routines.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I always learn more from listening to real-life stories of how other women are “getting it done.” Thanks for letting me share mine with you!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It's time to dive into the workweek.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before I go any further, I just want to remind you that here at Organize 365®, we view your “work” as “whatever you spend the majority of your Monday - Friday doing during the day.” </span></p> <p><strong>Why is it important to define our workday as “work”?!</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was so powerful for me to redefine “work” for myself and view my seasons of parenting, homeschooling, and being the family medical liaison as “work” because then I could embrace and apply better routines & productive habits to my day.</span></p> <p><strong>I share one week of my morning routines recorded in November in this week's podcast.</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">While recording this week, I realized that I actually have two different morning routines.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen in as I share how I “bucket” my morning routine to line up with the kind of work I’ll be doing each day of the week.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a bonus, I added on to this podcast episode my morning routine when my kids were in high school. </span></p> <p><strong>Hands down, one of the best habits I embraced for my mental health was establishing daily routines. </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why? Because it gave my “never-ending to do list days” structure and broke my day into buckets of time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all need structure, routines, and transitions in our days.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This p