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8 Ways To Start Your Day Off Right If You're #Struggling

Mornings can suck, but they don't have to.

Sydney Fowler

May 02, 2018

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8 Ways To Start Your Day Off Right If You're #Struggling

Sydney Fowler

So mornings can be the worst. Waking up yet another morning for your boring class can really suck. I get it. But I also have grown to like mornings a lot more when I practice some good habits and change my mindset about them. So here are a couple of ways to make your mornings suck less!

1. Practice gratitude

2. Wash your face

It feels refreshing, wakes you up and does wonders for your skin.

3. Eat breakfast

I literally get so excited for the mornings because I get to eat! I am a huge cereal girl; I know it's not super healthy, but it gets me out of bed in the morning knowing I get to eat some Cheerios!

4. Brew coffee

This is only for coffee drinkers, but as soon as I get up I start my Keurig so by the time I am back from washing my face, my room has that fresh coffee smell. It is so great. One of my fav things.

5. Make your bed

If my mom is reading this, she is probably not gonna actually believe it. Literally no matter how many times she told me in high school to make my bed I refused, but now that I'm in college I have to make my bed. I feel like when my bed is made, my room is together, then I feel like my life is together. It is also less tempting to get back in it in the middle of the day if it is already made.

" If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed." - William H. McRaven

6. Stay off social media

I definitely recommend waiting to check all your social media and stuff until a little later in the day because I have noticed if I start my day off checking Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, I begin my day comparing myself to others. Just not the best way to start the day.

7. Write down what you have to do today

If you write it all down in the morning, you'll be more motivated to stick to it later in the day.

8. Practice gratitude (again)

Even if it's raining out, I thank God for the rain because it makes the flowers grow. And the cool thing is, there are probably a lot of amazing things that could happen this day, and we get to be a part of it. I thank God for getting to go to class every day at Miami University because it truly is a blessing.

“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” - David Steindl-Rast

Obviously, not every morning goes perfectly like this, but these are things I try to do every day. It really starts your day off in an awesome way.

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8 Ways To Start Your Day Off Right If You're #Struggling

Mornings can suck, but they don't have to.

1. Practice gratitude

3. Eat breakfast

4. Brew coffee

5. Make your bed

6. Stay off social media

7. Write down what you have to do today

8. Practice gratitude (again)

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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