Morning | Routine

These past few weeks, I've been training myself to wake up early. By early I mean, 5 o'clock in the morning. 5AM! 

I've been watching too much youtubers where they did something like "my morning routine", "how I wake up at 5AM every morning", and "why I wake up early" kinda stuff. So I thought to myself, why haven't I done this before? Islam has actually taught us all of this wayyy earlier. Allah asks us to wake up early to pray tahajjud, and to have our time before fajr. All great and successful people in this world wake up early in the morning, especially our beloved Rasullulah s.a.w. To be one of the great and successful people, the first step is to wake up early.

Why I want to start waking up early?

I love my me-time. Waking up early gives me ample time to do my own stuff, to be more productive  and focus, and to just chill.

So, here's some of my morning routine. Sometimes I missed some of them, but these are kinda of my guidelines of my routine.

MY MORNING ROUTINE

1. Drink a glass of water.
2. Stretching.
3. Brushing my teeth.
4. Take wudhu'.
5. Pray tahajjud, taubat, hajat.
6. Tafakur.
7. Turn on the light.
8. Writing my journal and planner.
9. Read Quran 2-4 pages.
10. Taddabur.
11. Prepare breakfast and lunch box.
12. Drink my shake while reading a book.
13. Take shower and 10 seconds cold water.
14. Wake up my husband.
15. Making up our bed.
16. Solat subuh jemaah.
17. Skincare routine (Cleanser, Toner, Serum, Moisturizer, Sunscreen)
18. Having breakfast with my husband.
19. Send my husband to work.
20. Drive to work while listening to podcast.

Anyway, I've collecting some of the tips from the youtubers, and these are the tips that have been really help me with waking up early.

TIPS

1. Go to bed early. Have a good night sleep quality.
2. Prepare the night before, your bags, your cloth, your meals. Minimize the decision making early in the morning.
3. Don't hit the snooze button!
4. Put your phone where you have to walk.
5. Put a good music as your alarm.
6. Don't go on your phone an hour before sleep.
7. Don't go on your phone or checking up your social medias early in the morning.
8. Knows your why. Have a mindset why you want to wake up early.
9. Habits and consistency.
10. Make it fun!

To be completely honest, I love waking up early, but sometimes, I do fail. But I'm just gonna try to wake up early the next day and keep on trying and trying to wake up early everyday. (Before my routine will be all messed up; with babies.) 

Waking up early makes me super energized and productive, I am definitely more happy and positive, and I really enjoy my morning routine. Whatever time you want to wake up, make sure you are not rushing through your morning. Your life would be much more stable, organize and productive. Trust me ;)

Love and prayers, always,

AS