In Week one of Eban Pagan’s “Wake Up Productive” you learn a valuable exercise called your morning success ritual. This is a just a diary of my experiences going through 30 days being committed to my personal success ritual. One thing I learned on Day 2 is being flexible. The whole point of the success ritual is getting in the habit of starting your day with certain rituals, certain habits. The end result is a clear mind, well nourished and exercised body, and most importantly, a productive day.
This ritual is the most important point of your day.
Knowing this, you must be committed to doing the ritual everyday. What is a RITUAL? According to http://dictionary.com there are 7 definitions regarding ritual that all have to do with religious practices. The 8th in line is more appropriate to what I’m talking about here. Ritual… “any practice or pattern of behavior regularly performed in a set manner.” It is important to do the same things at the same times everyday. For instance, this is my success ritual.
- Wake up 5:45, drink a glass of water, brush my teeth, put on my exercise clothes, work out for 30 minutes, 10 minutes of meditation to clear the mind, protein shake, write out the top ten goals for the year. This is my success ritual.
On Day two I learned a valuable lesson. I work as an EMS helicopter pilot. I work two weeks on and two weeks off. On the second day of my personal success ritual I got a flight request at 5am. My plan was to wake up at 5:45 and start my ritual. Obviously this didn’t work out today, because my job got in the way. I learned to go with flow and not beat myself up. I just did my success ritual when I got back from my flight. This isn’t exactly a ritual in the strictest terms, but I made it work and I ended up having a very productive day.
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This is something I need to work on as more of a routine for my own greater productivity. I certainly have the getting up part down but after that??? I start my days at o’dark thirty and after reading this I think I will add to the plan some strategically placed discipline. I think the best plan is to have an alternate plan is place for those times we have to make adjustments!
Hey – day 2 – at least you got it in:) It is so easy to get distracted and side tracked, but you made the best of the situation.
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