After a long hiatus, I’ve decided to get my writing mojo on and start writing once more! Here’s the first of many awesome content that will be publish in the upcoming months. Enjoy!

We all have good days and bad days. To have an amazing life, we need to have more good days than bad. That’s why I’m writing this post, to share some ideas on how you can make your life awesome, by first making your day awesome.

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5 ways to set yourself up for an awesome day.

1. Start your day right

If you want your day to be awesome, it only makes sense to start your day right. With that said, having a morning routine will definitely help here.

Create a list of a few things that you can do to help you feel awesome in the morning. And if running to your phone to log into Facebook immediately after opening your eyes is one of them, please reevaluate your list.

Here are a few items on my list:

1. Draw my curtains and hop into the shower.

2. Drink 500ml of water.

3. Morning Quiet time

4. Drink a cup of green tea ( optional)

5. Get to work

Yours need not be like mine, what you need to do is find what works for you. Be it meditation or having a hot chocolate, if it helps you feel awesome in the morning, do it.

2.  Make a list and stick to it

We all have to-do lists. However, our to-do lists on Monday looks exactly the same on Wednesday.

15 task left with “I’ll get it done tomorrow” scribbled at the bottom.

Lists are amazing tools to help make the most out of your day; however fulfilling the task on the list only sets you up for disappointment.

Look at a paper of 20 things not completed and tell me how you feel. Get the picture now?

The problem here is that there are too many items on a list that people don’t complete any of them at all.

Interestingly enough, research has shown that when people have a larger variety to choose from, inaction is usually the option most people will opt for.

The fix here is to simplify your list—to only three tasks.

The three tasks here will be the most important tasks of the day. Your goal here is to complete all of them before you go to bed and 2 of them 8 hours after waking.

Here’s what it will look like:

1.  Deliver documents for the boss.

2. Get groceries for the next 3 days.

3. Wash the car.

So if you wake up at eight in the morning, you need to at least finish two task before four in the evening.

Sounds simple? Now get to it.

3. Doing what works for you

Everyone is different and if I say that everything written here will work for everyone, I probably should audition for the remake of Pinocchio.

Because all of us have different matters to handle our days can be vastly different. So knowing what works for you is very important.

If your creative juices start flowing an hour before midnight, by all means, do sleep later and wake up later.

I’m not saying that sleeping late is the best thing to do, but sleeping early might not be the best thing either.

Find out the methods that work best for you and use it to make your day awesome.

P/S: I wrote and in depth post on sleeping and napping. If you’re interested, check it out HERE

4. Get up and move

It’s my job to help people look and feel awesome and exercise is part of the equation of how I do that.

The more people perform some form of exercise the better their days would be. Research has shown that endorphins increases after exercise.

Just so you know, endorphin is also known as the happy hormone.  Its function is obvious, to make you feel happy.

Scheduling a short bout of exercise will help you get your daily dose of happiness, and no you don’t need Pharrel to do that.

So find time to get some form of exercise in. It could be taking a quick 15 minute run to clear your mind from all the clutter or maybe just heading to the gym.

The take home is to perform some form of exercise, because it does the body and mind good.

5. Imagine your ideal day

It’s interesting to note that visualization plays an important role in how our body functions.

A study has shown that weightlifters that imagine an exercise being performed showed similar activation patterns in their muscle to those that visualize doing the exercise.

It tells us that mental practice is as important as true physical practice.

So the next time before heading to bed, take 5 minutes and imagine what your ideal day will be like. Imagine from the time you’re awake till the time you go back to bed.

It need not be as detailed as a Hollywood production, but just take time to picture yourself completing your task, having fun and having an awesome day.

You’ll never know, tomorrow might just be your ideal day!

Start using these tips and let me know how they go. Do you have any other tips to share?Leave them in the comment section and share this with your friends that want to have an awesome day too!

3)Ranagathan VK et al. From Mental Power to muscle power–gaining strength by using the mind.

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