Morning Rituals

Michelangelo’s David at the Gallery of the Academy. Florence, Italy.

The other day, I saw a tweet from Mattan Griffel talking about morning rituals. This is a concept that I had in mind a while ago, but never implemented it.

After a google search for morning rituals, I found mymorningroutine.com. They have some pretty cool interviews with people describing their morning rituals (including Mattan Griffel). I checkout some of these and grabbed some ideas to build my own.

Right now I’m doing crossfit from Monday to Friday. But I need to integrate other activities like reading, meditating and writing.

From today I’ll formalize my morning rutine and it will go like this (I’m not including breakfast and morning gromming because I’ll do that after I finish the routine)

1. Crossfit (1 hour)
2. Listen an audio book (the time it takes to walk from the gym to my house)
3. Meditation (15 min, using Headspace app)
4. Reading (around 30 min, dead tree book)

So that should take me around two hours, plus one hour for breakfast and grooming.

Another thing I wanted to do is to document my dreams. The goal is to have lucid dreams.

Writing about your dreams is the first tip you find around the web. You have to write as soon as you wake up. This is to resemble your dreams later on, which will make you lucid when dreaming.

I’ll put a notebook nearby my bed to write about my dreams, and if I see some interesting things happening, I’ll blog about it.

Do you have a morning ritual?. If that’s the case, leave your thoughts in the comments.