Routines are great for success because they set you up that way. Your brain loves routine. It craves it. If you have routines, your brain can go off and create new ideas, instead of trying to solve the same old problems. Creating routines makes life easier. Creating routines that worked for me were a powerful weapon in me being able to take control of my illness.

Do a little better today than yesterday

Most people have routines, even when they don’t realise it, and they’re usually pretty crap ones. Unconscious routines are so easy to create, usually don’t progress us towards our goals, and feel great only for the moment we’re in them.

How many of these routines have you slipped into:
* Routinely hit snooze
* Routinely reach for biscuits at 3pm
* Routinely check out of your life and into someone else’s via Facebook or Instagram
* Routinely think negative thoughts about yourself.

Don’t treat yourself like crap

It’s not about setting the alarm for 5am when you usually get up at 8am. It’s not about jumping out of bed for a five mile run when you’ve not run before. It certainly isn’t about judging yourself for what you should be doing, or what you’ve failed at before.

It is about being kind to yourself, setting yourself up for success, creating the life you want, making life simpler.

Make a plan

Success with routines is about consciously deciding what you want to do and what you will do by slowly shifting where you are now, to where you want to be.

Think of it as “what would X do?”. Imagine your end- result person. The one who ran the race, lost the weight, found the relationship, kicked butt of the illness. Ask it positively – avoid using don’t, not, lost etc.

What would a runner do?
What would a healthy person do? (both lose weight, and illness)
What would a confident person do?

Imagine the life, the daily routines, and adjust yours. Look at the routines you have now. What do you like? What do you want to stop? What do you want to add?

If you want to get up at 5am, but currently get up at 8am, set the alarm for 7.45am for a few days, then 7.30am, etc and slowly adjust.
If you want to be healthier, what are your bad habits? What can you do instead of reaching for the biscuits at 3pm?

Write it down, set it up, and then, show up for yourself.

I created a powerful worksheet to transform my routines, and now you can transform your routines too, click here to download.