3 Steps to Design Your Morning for Success and Fulfillment

If you want to make 2024 your year of success and fulfillment, stop making plans to change your external circumstances.

Instead, start shifting from within.

Only 10% of what we change outside leads to long lasting change.

It’s our habits and daily rituals that shape our mornings, prime our days, and ultimately, create a fulfilling and successful year.

Why Morning Routines Matter?

According to many studies, people with consistent morning routines report higher levels of happiness and productivity.

Starting your day with intentional habits can set a positive tone and significantly impact your overall success and fulfillment.

“Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.” — T. Harv Eker

You can shape your inner world with simple yet powerful habits that signal success and fulfillment to your system, which will then be reflected in your external world.

Here are three steps to use every morning to shift positively…

3 Steps to Design Your Morning for Success:

Step 1: Avoid Your Phone for at Least an Hour After Awakening

Not engaging in a destructive habit can be as powerful as engaging in an empowering one.

Checking your phone immediately after waking primes your brain for reactivity and negativity, from scrolling through social media to reading distressing news or work emails.

This takes away your power and sets you in a state of reaction rather than proactive control.

A study found that participants who limited phone use in the morning reported lower stress levels and higher productivity throughout the day.

This reinforces the idea that how you start your morning can set the tone for your entire day.

Tip: Try placing your phone out of reach before going to bed, so you’re not tempted to grab it first thing in the morning.

Step 2: Make Your Bed

It might sound simple, but making your bed produces a sense of accomplishment and empowerment early in the morning.

This small success boosts your confidence and sets a positive tone for the rest of your day.

According to Charles Duhigg, author of “The Power of Habit,” making your bed can lead to better productivity, a greater sense of well being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

It’s a keystone habit that can spark chain reactions that help other good habits take hold.

Tip: If you find it hard to make your bed in the morning, start by simplifying your bedding. Use fewer pillows and a simpler blanket arrangement.

Step 3: Power Boost Your Nervous System with Affirmations

The quality of your thoughts and emotions equals the quality of your actions, which equals the quality of your results.

Your productivity starts with what you think and believe.

If you think, “Yes, I can do this,” you have a much greater chance of turning your goals into reality with satisfying results than if you believe, “There is no way. I can’t.”

Neuroscientific research shows that affirmations can activate the brain’s reward centers and create new neural pathways, making it easier to adopt a positive mindset and achieve your goals.

Tip: Use a mirror when stating your affirmations to reinforce the positive messages and build confidence.

Empowering Affirmations for Success and Fulfillment:

Affirmations are positive statements you repeat during a power pose.

Repetition, combined with the hormonal balancing effect of the pose, creates new neural pathways that help you believe these statements are true.

It’s essential to choose affirmations that resonate with you to avoid the pitfall of “toxic positivity.”

Here are 33 success and fulfillment affirmations to start with.

Choose the ones that make you feel excited and empowered:

1. I am productive and successful!
2. I am powerful and fulfilled!
3. I am enough and deserving of success!
4. I am worthy of all good things!
5. I am the creator of my successful reality!
6. Everything I need for success always comes to me!
7. I am a master creator of my life!
8. Abundance flows to me effortlessly and easily!
9. The more success I achieve, the more good I can do in the world!
10. Everything always works out in my favor!
11. With every breath, I am more and more successful!
12. Blessings and opportunities pour into my life!
13. I am healthy and vibrant!
14. My energy attracts only good and fulfilling experiences!
15. My heart is wide open to receive success and blessings!
16. I am successful in all my endeavors!
17. My pains and shadows are transformed into strength!
18. I am free to achieve my dreams!
19. I am grateful for all my successes!
20. My life is positively up leveling every single day!
21. I’m getting better and more successful every single day!
22. My happiness and fulfillment expand daily!
23. I am pure love and attract success!
24. I am loved and valued in all that I do!
25. I am peaceful and whole in my journey to success!
26. I have everything I need to succeed and be fulfilled!
27. I love that I am able to do what I love and succeed!
28. I am worthy of joy, ease, and success!
29. My life gets better and more fulfilling every single day!
30. Everything I desire for success desires me more!
31. 2024 is my best year of success and fulfillment ever!
32. I am open to new and exciting opportunities!
33. I trust in my ability to create the life I desire!

Practice Your Affirmations

While in your power pose, state your affirmation(s) silently or out loud.

Close your eyes if you want and say them with conviction.

Even if it feels uncomfortable initially, don’t give up.

Help your body become familiar with these statements and new empowering information.

Repetition is key.

Do this exercise with the same set of affirmations for at least 21 days in a row.

Come back for more inspiration when they feel “sunken in” and like a normal belief you hold.

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