PERSONAL RECIPE FOR WONDERFUL REFRESHING MORNING

How you start your day matters! Here is why.

Most of the foreign students I know from the University Dormitory sleeps until the noon. Its 1PM, and they are still in their beds. Not sick or dead, but for more significant reasons such as laziness, chat with friends back home until 3am, partied previews night, just tired, and of course the main theme “nothing else to do”.

These are the people who suffer from number of issues in their academic and social life, and I hate to see them sleeping their life away.

But not all foreign students are heavy sleepers. Here are some of my friends who are successful, happily living in China. Their life is so much more interesting, progressive, and productive. They are immune to stress, fatigue and boredom. Some even owns a business in China!

Witnessing both types of student life style, I have acknowledged difference in their morning routine. There few simple tricks my friends do to have a beautiful and refreshing morning.

1. Wake up early

This gives you an extra time to ponder, think, and see where your current circumstances are. People who are progressive in life, ALL are early risers. They treasure that quite silence of the morning for meditation, vision of future. I usually devote my morning for behind the scenes stuff such as organizing my schedule, contacting overseas friends and exercising.

2. Read something positive

This probably is the highest and most important priority of your day. Positive reading helps you cognitively create positive perspective in life. Perspective becomes attitude, and attitude becomes an action. Especially in the morning where your mind is like a fresh soil, you should plant something positive so that good seed will grow to beautiful tree.

3. Plan your day

While working in companies I realized higher, the organizational leadership ladder a person go, more effective their daily hours has to be planned. Planning it self is an art, but it’s not hard to master. It all starts with your morning plan. Spending few moments to plan you day will help you to see what need to be done and how you can use your time effectively.

4. Exercise

Healthy body is the most important thing in life. Healthy and happy people produce much more than sick and sad ones. When you exercise in the morning your body balances and burns the food you eat through out the day. I go to park and learn Tai Chi from Chinese people after I run few miles; it helped me to heal my back injury.

After all, how you start your day matters! How you handle your mornings greatly influences the outcome of rest of the day. Follow this routine for 30 days and you will notice your many change.