Anna Kunnecke
“Doing a sixty-second morning ritual each day will give you a lot more bang for your buck than doing a three-hour ritual once or twice.”
Keri WIlt
“Journaling gives me time to think about what’s going on and listen to God.”
Carla Robertson
“If we can sit in stillness and contemplation, it connects us to an expanded awareness and pure potentiality, and that spills over into what we do each day.”
cynthia morris
“When you do a morning ritual, you’re putting yourself first; it provides space for self-connection and self-knowledge.”
WEndy Battino
“I love morning rituals because they help you envision what you want to create. They get you deeply in touch with your center and help you ground yourself so you can see more clearly.”
Lezlie Laws
“My morning practice is the foundation of my life; it’s responsible for the sense of joy and purpose I get to experience every day. It’s an essential form of self-care that allows me to offer my best.”
Tracy verdugo
“Counting your blessings first thing in the morning is so important. Gratitude is a great way to start the day.”
Patricia Charpentier
“I start the day with a prayer; it’s a conscious process of giving the day over to a higher power. I ask to be led to say and do whatever will best serve those who cross my path.”
Jeanne Geier Lewis
“If I didn’t meditate, I’d feel frazzled all day. Meditation makes me more aware and focused.”
Stacy Wooster
“A body awareness practice in the morning gives me a baseline to measure against throughout the day.”
Char Cooper
“Running focuses my mind, gets my blood pumping, and gets my brain cells moving. I get some of my best ideas then.”
Christie Federico
“Self-care helps me access my intuition and gives me clarity.”
Holly Shoebridge
“I think a morning ritual is valuable because the way you start your day is the way the rest of your day will continue. Beginning with self-care and a good breakfast and exercise–it’s so essential to our health and happiness. If you do that every day, every day is going to be awesome.”
Tanja Richter
“A morning ritual keeps your life balanced and helps protect your inner self and your connection to that self. … I always try to do something silly and fun each day; it’s important to keep that connection with our inner child.”
Katy Murray
“I get up thirty minutes before I wake my children up. I drink hot water with lemon, then do sun salutations and yoga stretches, focused breathing/meditation, and a gratitude/devotion/petition practice.”
ANgela Winter
“Each morning I do morning pages and an energy work protocol that is akin to setting intentions and requesting help from the universe.”
MARY WALKER
“The difference to my writing, my creativity—to what it feels like to start my day this way, on my terms, doing something only for me—is astounding. I’ve learned that it does not take as much time as I thought. Twenty minutes? That is a tiny investment with massive returns for me.”
Cheri Dostal Ryba
“I have had lots of different morning rituals. Being a new mama means I am coming up with a new one each day. My primary goal for now is to check in with myself and adapt to the day. … Adapt, flow, trust … all day long I’m practicing.”
Beth LaGrone
“My alarm is the Om Asatoma mantra (“Lead me from darkness to light,” or from unconscious sleep to awake). Then I put on my morning mantra playlist and start a basic dinacharya practice: drinking warm water, body brushing, abhyanga self-massage, and some yoga asanas.”
Kim Blake
“Morning pages from The Artist’s Way have been transformative for me and the only morning habit I’ve been able to make stick.”
Claire Shamilla Yee
“I have a discipline of not checking social media in the mornings anymore and just allowing myself to enjoy the inner peace from a restful night’s sleep. This has really helped shift my mornings, as I’m not thinking of all the things I have to get done. Instead, I can be present with myself and the kids before they head off to school.”
Autumn Saunders
“A morning ritual—or process, as I have always called it—is essential. I have been doing morning pages from The Artist’s Way for more than twenty years. … My morning process is nonnegotiable for me; it literally keeps me healthy, vital, and connected to my soul.”
“The morning sets the tone for the whole day. If we can begin in a more conscious way, we are able to make choices that are more aware. And all the small choices add up; it’s the subtle things that really change our lives.” –Stacy Wooster
“The most powerful purpose a morning ritual has is to connect us with who we really are, at our deepest and at our best. It centers us and settles us; it gets our wheel on the track of where we really want to go.”–Karen Hawkwood
