Your morning vibes set you up for success or failure for the day.

Your morning vibes are how you are feeling each and every moment. A lot of mornings, sometimes the vibes set themselves with things that have already happened and are now awaiting your response and confirmation. Or other times, you have more space to set your morning vibes in order to get off to the right start as soon as you can.

The choice is mostly up to you. However, sometimes, life does like to interrupt you. Be gentle with yourself during these moments as bad vibes can set off negative reality experiences.

And, because you deserve to have your best day yet, I’m going to teach you here how to successfully set yourself up for the best day ever by using these *morning vibes* strategies!

But first, I’m going to take you back to the day where all of this began:

Here’s how to not positively vibe your way through your morning

After pressing the snooze button what felt like a thousand times, I finally got up. My first thought was, why did I stay up all night? Followed by, I’m definitely going to bed early tonight. I walked into my bathroom, looked in the mirror, and immediately realized that my hair had dried awkwardly from the night before. Why didn’t I dry my hair before I went to bed? There’s a knock at my door. The repair guy was already here. Is he serious? I didn’t even get dressed yet! Shit. And I’m going to be late!

Misery took over my morning, and it wasn’t even 8 AM yet. Everything that could have gone wrong- did.

You would think it would stop there, but as soon as I sat down in class, I spilled my coffee all over the floor! IS THIS A JOKE?! This was awkward and embarrassing. Why in hell have I decided to sit at the front of the room? Now the entire class can watch me clean it up since that’s obviously more entertaining than the math problem on the board. Ugh, can I give up now?

The (massive) realization

Then it hit me.

What I needed to give up was my terrible attitude. I needed to stop blaming everything and everyone for every negative thing that happened.

It was my choice to shower before bed and not dry my hair. It was my choice to stay up all night. It was my choice to have the repair guy there that day. And, most importantly, it’s my choice how I react to everything that happens around me.

It wasn’t a fun realization, but a much-needed one which is as important – if not more.

How life works

In life, we have good days and bad. But if we can help it, we can have more good days than bad. We can even have amazing days if we really put the effort in.

It all comes down to your attitude, to your morning vibes that set your day up for a day that you love or a day that you don’t remember.

I realized that to get rid of the negativity in my life and the blame on everything outside of myself. I had to make a change within myself. I had to change what I was thinking (mindlessly and negatively), how I reacted (instead of responded), and how to start my day on a better, more positive note.

I thought back to how I began my day. As soon as that alarm went off, I immediately woke up and was annoyed that it was time to get up. I was annoyed the VERY first second of my awakeness. How ridiculously silly is that? I wasn’t even happy to start my day, so why would the day, in turn, be a happy one for me?

The goodies

Here are the practices to ensure your new morning vibes are positively and naturally instill into you, remember the more you practice the more you progress.

Change #1: Accept what it is.

I set my alarm for when I have to wake up. Three different times to be exact. All with different tones that signify the importance of the time. But, nonetheless, I needed to wake up by a certain time. So I began to accept that.

Instead of seeing my alarm as a negative viewpoint that I HAVE to get up, I started seeing it as an opportunity to begin anew. Instead of fighting it, I viewed it as an opportunity to switch my thoughts around to work in my favor and in turn made waking up so much more pleasant. It eliminated my problem of hating to wake up and being mad as soon as I heard the alarm go off.

Change #2: The first few thoughts in the morning HAVE to be positive.

In the beginning, I had to force the positivity. As in, I had to intentionally and deliberately keep thinking positive things in order to yield more positive things to me. Literally, 20 minutes of talking to yourself and pointing out all things positive about your day so far is simply the secret sauce to a positive day. This needn’t be hard – be grateful for that bed you were able to rest in. Be grateful for the sun shining through your window. Love that cup of coffee you’re drinking right now. So many grateful things to mention here.

Starting my day on a positive note has been amazing! It was hard in the beginning. Between remembering to do it and believing it would be a great day takes a lot of consistent practice. But it was so worth it. You become a happier human. Less stuff stresses you out or puts you off. The best one? Your day actually ends up being awesome.

Since starting this habit, I don’t remember the last time I had so many good days that turned into good weeks that turned into good months.

Over time, you become flexible and branch out about what kind of day you want to have, whether it be peaceful or exciting, and everything in between. You become gentler with yourself and learn to flow with what you feel. You become more accepting of yourself and others.

Change #3: Learn to react positively (or in the least, neutrally).

You can’t control anybody, anything, or life itself other than yourself. So that guy that cut you off doesn’t a) care about you or b) care how you feel about him. The only thing he cares about is getting to where he needs to. So don’t bother wasting your whole morning thinking about him and how he cut you off and how your whole day is ruined now. Pssht, you’ve got more important (and better) things to think about that need your attention.

Learning to react in a positive (or even neutral) way involves a lot of patience and understanding.

When someone or something rubs you the wrong way, put yourself in their position. As a spiritual being having a human experience, we are everybody and everyone is us. I practice forgiveness by knowing that he who did wrong unto me is also me who did wrong unto another at some point too. All is well, forgive and move on – you’re only taking away your own peace.

Conclusion

Incorporating these strategies into your day can literally yield you the most beautiful day you have ever experienced, but you have to deliberately create it by RESPONDING to life and creating positive thoughts instead of relying on the outcome to serve you.

Always be the driver of your own boss, learn to serve yourself and your mind through positive morning vibes and you’ll learn how to serve this world without even trying.

Looking for a good book to begin your day?

How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life