How to Wake Up Happy
Sick and tired of waking up grumpy? Ready to manifest your dream life by embracing the version of you that wakes up happy every day? Learn 3 ways on how to wake up happy!
Waking up with excitement and joy is something, we as adults, have definitely learned to take for granted. It takes a great effort for most of us to get out of bed and make and audible sound before caffeine.
Can you even imagine waking up in the morning and with the most excitement ever and a smile to go with it saying “I am awake!”??
I can’t. But I can see how waking up happily can be of great service to us.
Starting our day with excitement and gratitude that we are here another day with breath in our body is a great way to set the tone. But all to often the first thing we think is, ugh…just 10 more minutes.
I also bet, when you visualize what your dream life looks like, waking up happy and relaxed is up there on the top of the list. Which makes it even more important to embrace morning joy. Like attracts like.
So the best thing to do to attract that into your reality is to start having happy mornings now. The mornings you picture having when you are making 6 figures a year from ad income, or when you get to quit your 9-5 job and can be home.
What you think about you bring about, so we need to be thinking like we already have the mornings we desire.
I have three ways to help you wake up with more joy. Try them all or just one.
I would like to challenge you to at least think about adjusting your morning mindset to one of gratitude and joy. Even if its shuffling into the kitchen bleary eyed, and praising God you have a hot cup of coffee.
1. Go to bed happy with gratitude
Start a bedtime gratitude routine.
Make this super simple or elaborate depending on what your life looks like.
I am exhausted at night so I don’t make my gratitude routine this big ceremony where I burn candles and get out my favorite journal and spend hours writing. LOL I wish.
I simply lay my head on my pillow and close my eyes and start listing what I’m grateful real or not real…meaning they are actually happening right now and things I know that are coming but haven’t happened yet.
It looks like this:
- Thank you for my health (real)
- Thank you for my kids and their health (real)
- Thank you for the abundance that surrounds me (real)
- Thank you for a thriving 10k/month business (not real…yet)
- Thank you for the large amounts of money that flow to me (sometimes real)
- Thank you for my husband (real)
- Thank you for the words that help me help people (real)
Make it as long as you would like. Sometimes I just keep going until I fall asleep. This practice is yours, so do what feels good.
2. Use thoughts that create the reality you desire
Instead of dreading the things you have to do the next day find a way to reframe them into something you actually want to happen. This could look different every day and for every person. But let’s discuss a few examples:
Example one:
I can’t stand working with Debbie. She is such a downer.
Reframe to ….
I am thankful for co-workers who help me get the job done
Example two:
I am so busy tomorrow, I am already overwhelmed.
Reframe to:
My day is going to run so smoothly tomorrow. I will have all the time I need to, to get things done.
You can do this with any thoughts you are struggling with in any area of your life. Your thoughts dictate your feelings which determine your behaviors. If you want a better morning, it starts with better thoughts.
3. Practice affirmations before you even open your eyes
Affirmations are always powerful. Using them at a specific time of day, like before you open your eyes is a quick way to (hopefully) bypass your critical faculty and going straight to the subconscious mind as a direct command.
Take 1-2 minutes to practice your affirmations before jumping out of bed. Just start saying them silently in your head as soon as your alarm goes off.
If you forget or this doesn’t work into your morning routine, find a better place. I suggest working them into a part of your routine you always do, like saying them in the shower (my fav) or while brushing your teeth.
You can say these silently in your head, no need to stare lovingly in the mirror while you say them (unless you want to).
This is one of my favorites to start the day off with:
“I am loving, I am patient, I am calm”
Don’t forget to let me know how implementing these practices go. Check back in and let me know how much your life has improved now that you wake up happy every single day!
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