⏰ early bird action: make moves before your resistance wakes up! [OHT 078]
What's your personal resistance routine?
When do you tend to have more will power to challenge your default thoughts (and let mom brain talk you into beneficial action)?
When do you tend to have slippery-fish-style excuses to talk you into maintaining the status quo?
My resistance seems to snooze till around lunchtime these days.
I tend to be most energized and optimistic in my first few waking hours.
My best chance for taking new / more challenging actions is in the MORNING.
As I create new habits over here, I'm aiming to complete my "new" baseline routine before lunch. And it's working well.
The days when I don't, it's still useful, but I notice it's so much harder than it needs to be. My afternoon energy is typically lower, my brain isn't quite as sharp.
On school days, that's when I shift into carpool and caregiver mode for my kiddos for the rest of the day.
I can, of course, still do the things, but I have less energy, less focus, and get less fulfillment and energetic bang for my buck.
Beating the clock to get a jumpstart and take *early bird action* has felt fun, and a good kind of sneaky. 🤗
It's working over here.
Let me know if you give it a try!
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Hi! 👋 I'm Nikki.
...Elledge Brown.
Creator of the On Her Terms® universe.
Pro word nerd and mom of three.
I'm a creative advisor, coach, and strategist for entrepreneurial women who love their work, their families, and their alone time.
I'm also a military spouse and former park ranger and college professor with a penchant for almost excessive verbal processing. (You've prob picked up on that by now.)
After over a decade in business and momming, moving from my fave Hawaiian island to my fave Texas town, reckoning with and recovering from my own brand of #onherterms burnout, I've been deep in introspection + experimentation over here:
Got it. Not a dress rehearsal. What do I really want my life to look like? What do I want it to feel like? In each area of life, what are my terms for this season? When I get really honest and ditch the should dos and the have tos…what's left? What’s true? NOW WHAT?
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