Master Your Morning, Master Your Life

Kate and Toby Oliver share 5 key insights from Rise and Shine: How to Transform Your Life, Morning by Morning

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How did you start your day today? Did you just roll out of bed and jump into everything you needed to get done? Or did you engage in a ritual, a collection of habits that set you up to have a happy and productive day? It turns out that people who begin their days intentionally  have a much higher rate of joy and success, and here to help you build a morning routine are Kate and Toby Oliver, the brother-sister writing team behind Rise and Shine: How to transform your life, morning by morning. Kate is a psychologist and executive coach and her brother Toby is a therapist and instructor in meditation and yoga. Below, read or listen to 5 of their big ideas.

The 5 Key Insights:

1. The way you start your morning matters.

2. Do you “rise and shine,” or do you “rise and whine?”

3. You can find your S.H.I.N.E.

4. Start small and swap out.

5. Practice makes... improvement!

1. The way you start your morning matters.

“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day,” wrote Henry Ward Beecher. Research by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University found that people who started the day in a bad mood finished the day in a bad—or even worse—mood. Whereas those who started the day in a good mood often ended up even happier as the day went on. Your morning mood doesn’t just last, but often amplifies as you go through your day.