Morning routines work for a lot of people because they help them jump-start their days and get started on a positive and productive note. However, morning routines (especially vigorous ones) aren’t for everyone.
In fact, morning routines overrated for many different reasons…
Not everyone operates best in the morning
This is one of the biggest reasons why morning routines aren’t for everyone. After all, if you own a liquor store and stay open late, then you might not have the ability to wake up before the sun rises because your store doesn’t close until 10, 11, or sometimes even 12 at night.
Everyone’s 24-hour internal clock is different because we all go to sleep and wake up at different times. As a result, we all function better at different times. For some people, it’s earlier in the morning. For others, it’s late at night.
Not everyone has the ability to incorporate an intense morning routine
For a long time, self-proclaimed successful people and experts preached that morning routines should consist of journaling, eating breakfast, going to the gym, meditation, reading, and the list could go on and on … and that these routines should only last one to two hours max.
Not everyone has time to incorporate all of those morning ingredients. Not to mention, fitting that much into one to two hours is impossible for many people and could actually lead to stress because having too much things on your plate can do that.
Luckily, people are starting to create morning routines that actually benefit them as opposed to doing everything a productivity guru preaches.
There’s no need to add unnecessary tasks to your day
People are busy enough as it is. If you’re a dentist in Westlake, OH, or college professor in Irvine, CA, then you don’t have time to add unnecessary tasks to your day for the sake of adding them.
Morning routines are supposed to help to eliminate stress and prioritize important things in your daily life, but if you don’t have time for a million different tasks in the morning before you go to work, then you don’t have time and these tasks will do nothing more than add stress to your life.
While a morning routine should be beneficial, it can actually make people feel guilty if they wake up late and can’t check everything off the mourning-routine list or simply skip morning-routine tasks altogether.
Some things just sound better on paper, and they end up being a waste of time when actually implemented.
People create morning routines that don’t work for them
When it comes to morning routines, people are constantly creating plans that don’t work for them because of what the internet and gurus are telling others to do.
While morning routines are supposed to be detailed and mapped out, adding too many tasks can lead to a failed routine. Not to mention, not everyone wants to journal, medidate, or work out in the morning. Unfortunately, these are some of the habits that experts say morning routines should have because they work for them … but just because they work for the experts, that doesn’t mean they work for everyone.
Many morning routines incorporate drastic changes
Too many morning routines incorporate drastic changes, similar to resolutions.
For example, you create a resolution of going to the gym five days a week yet haven’t been to the gym in months, or waking up at 6 a.m. yet your alarm is usually set for 9 in the morning.
While a morning routine helps to create healthy habits, it’s important to remember that a drastic change is the opposite of building a habit, no matter how good the intentions might be.
Morning routines can help to provide necessary structure to a person’s day as well as make people more productive and eliminate important tasks first thing in the morning, but they aren’t for everyone for the reasons mapped out above. There are other ways—and other times of the day—to achieve success.
