What Are Your Daily Rituals?

“Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.” - Og Mandino from The Greatest Salesman In the World

What do you write down every day?

Do you write every day?

Do you think about the lemons that you make every day and what you are doing with them specifically? Do you look at the recipe also known as your mantra, every day? Have you reminded yourself of this mantra, that you have decided to live by? What do you incant?

Do you chant or sing your praises every day?

If no, then Why?

I’m not sure, maybe it’s the way that society treats us. Our parents, our teachers.

We are survivors, right? So what have we built into ourselves to survive? Follow the rules?

Don’t push the limits or society will cast you out? This might come from the fact that when we were in tribes and we were outcasted from said tribe, we would be left to the wolves, so to speak. When we were deserted with no comfort, no food, no resources or community, we were sure to do one of two things; 1. Go insane or 2. Die.

The crazy homeless cat ladies of the tribal era.

This is what we all fear. However, have you ever jumped off a cliff into the water, I don’t care how high it was, did you do it?

Or did you stand shaking on top of the ledge?

This is our bodies response to fear. 

Mel Robbins says that as we make a decision and have an idea of something if we don’t do something about it in the first five seconds of thinking of it, our brain puts on the handbrake and we are immediately stopped.

This is our brains natural fight or flight response at its smallest scale.

So if you didn’t jump off the cliff as soon as you took your shirt off, most people spend five to ten minutes staring over the cliff deliberating.

If you do not leap out of bed when your alarm goes off and jump in the cold shower or your gym gear, then you probably won’t get out of bed for another 30 minutes.

What is it you are telling yourself every morning? 

What is it you are insisting on doing every morning?

Do you tell yourself “ergh, I hate my job!”

Or do you tell yourself “I am a fucking king!”

Do you get up and meditate or do you go straight for the coffee pot?

Do you get up and move your body, dance, run, stretch? Or do you slide out of bed like a puddle of water making its way slowly to the drain?

Do you turn up to your desk every morning and write that screenplay, that novel? 

Or do you endlessly check emails filled with discount codes and new products from all your kind of favourite brands?

My dear reader I am not writing this to shame you, I am writing this to bring you some perspective.

What does your journal look like?

I am a victim of this. I wrote for years only when I was upset or had a series of red-lights in my life.

My habits were all of the above for years and I too am still working on them every day. 

This is not a call for shame or pity, this is a call for action, use today as a setting off point, a new fork in the road that you choose to carve.

Look at your life, your habits and start with the ones in the morning, how do you start your day?

What does that look like? 

What are you doing that you know is a bad habit and take control of it?

I Challenge You:

Spend the next two weeks doing what you would normally do each day, only I want you to take note of all the things you do in your day, especially of a morning and an evening.

Do a habit audit, write down every day the good and bad habits you partake in.

Then once these two weeks have ended, look back and be super critical of what you want to build into your day to make it better, and where you can because I assure you, there is defiantly time for it, you just haven’t prioritised your habits.

As always ladies and gentlemen

Stay Weird 

Written and edited by Jordan Morpeth

© Jordan Morpeth 2020