What's your morning ritual during the week or the weekend and/ or how they differ.

I work the graveyard shift as a chef for my coworkers at a casino on the west coast.

Morning for me means....

Coming home...kissing my woman...feeding the cats..walking the dog on the beach

Then....I drink.

Then my girl feeds me.

She loves me so good.

I get up about an hour later on weekends, otherwise my ritual is about the same.

I'm up about 6am with the first scent of coffee brewing on auto.

I shower and dress while the coffee brews.

I power the TV on my way through the living room, set the remote on the dining table as I power my laptop, then it's on thru to the kitchen for COFFEE with hazelnut or macadamia creamer.

I drink coffee and eat breakfast while checking email and doing bills and banking while I watch news and weather on the living room TV from over the top of my laptop at the dining table.

Really simple...unless I don't find the remote on the coffee table...then all DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS break loose!

I work nights, so my ritual changes a little.

Normally,during my work week:
-I get up at 8pm
-have some tea
-shower and get dressed
-then eat and get through any emails/phone calls I missed while sleeping.
Since I get home at 730am I tend to watch a little tv to unwind, then run errands for what I need, and start the procedure all over again.

Time off differs a little.
-I stay up from a Saturday morning getting home as I:
-go to the farmer's market at 730am
-walk home with it all as I love the exercise
-put everything away and go through any phone calls/emails
-go to the gym and have one heck of a work out
-relax with some friends in the afternoon
-chat with my love as much as I can
-hit my bed around 3am as I am dead tired by then, lol

I'm soooooo looking forward to a so-called 'normal life' once I move to be with him, but that is what my routine is for now.

I get up about 3:30am.
Shower and shave and dress.
Go to treatment by 5am.
Get home at 11 or so.
Utterly exhausted, I head to school.
Take classes until 8:30
Come home and crash.

This is two to three days a week.

stretch while in bed
grab a robe or gown
bathroom
sleepily make coffee
wait while it makes which seems a longtime......

wake up
make daughters lunch and lay out her clothes
wash up
brush teeth
do hair
wake up daughter
help her brush her teeth
get her dressed
take daughter to school
work

I wake up before the sun's up.
I think of 10 things I'm grateful for before I even get out of bed.
I usually read, watch or listen to something inspiring for the first hour of my day.
Make some hazelnut coffee.
Bacon, Eggs, Toast.
Surf the internet
Hit the rink for some Ice-Hockey
And try to do at least one thing a day that scares me.

Weekdays -

Wake up at 3AM
Start coffee
Take shower
Eat breakfast, drink coffee
Drive to work


Weekends -

Wake up
Start coffee
Do whatever I'm in the mood for

Whenever possible, I try to wake up at the crack of noon.

and who is noon....never mind...

Woke up, got up, near eleven o'clock.
butt naked except I was wearing my socks
and that's cool, 'cause most the time this floor is cold.
stand up and stretch and look for my soul.

roll out of bed, off to the gym, shower and off to work.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is different one with it's own infinite possibilities.

When everyday seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

The less routine, the more life.

in either case my morning ritual is sleeping

My days vary. Lately I have been in 'creative mode' which typically means all nighters - going to bed at 6 or 7 am. When I facilitate workshops and classes ... I am up by 7am ... I feel like I live more than one life simultaneously.


When I wake up I always ask 'what amazing adventures await today?' or 'what would it take for today to be even more amazing than yesterday?' or 'What infinite possibilities lie ahead today?'

It sets a nice tone of gratitude and anticipation for the day.


I tend to follow the energy so every morning is different. Some days it is straight to the shower. Other days it is responding to email or making changes to my website before 'getting ready' for the day. Sometimes a morning meditation and others, I record an audio for one of my programs.

A protein shake or eggs some mornings ... other days just water or a cup of tea

As an entrepreneur there is no weekday/weekend ... just one big blissful blur of yummy!

It's a new world every day.
Sometimes coffee.
Sometimes breakfast.
Sometimes phone calls so I start working.
Sometimes recorded TV shows.
Sometimes workout.
Sometimes I call friends to chat.
More often than not, I mingle.

Saturday Morning Cartoons
Banana Pancakes
Gym
Chocolate Milk
Read
Write
Ice Hockey
Chocolate Milk

and....I am awake now! It's 9am. Early for me, but the weather is beautiful! Perhaps outside to play???