{"id":12611,"date":"2023-11-09T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=12611"},"modified":"2023-10-23T23:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T03:30:46","slug":"heres-why-you-dont-take-oprahs-morning-routine-at-face-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=12611","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Why You Don’t Take Oprah’s Morning Routine at Face Value"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oprah Winfrey famously starts her day with a specific morning routine.<\/p>\n

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  1. Inventory the 3 things she’s grateful for each morning.<\/li>\n
  2. 30 minutes of exercise … still good to go here.<\/li>\n
  3. There’s breakfast and prayer, and I get all that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"No<\/p>\n

    I don’t know about you, but I read this and think, “but, but, but … after all that, where’s the coffee”??<\/p>\n

    For me, okay fine, what I’m missing may be a wee TAD about getting my daily morning caffeine hello-punch to the brain.<\/p>\n

    But more than that, it’s so so sweet to snug into the couch, heavy cotton throw, slippers and jams, still a bit groggy, just hanging, quiet for a minute before the Class-5 rapids of my life starts up again.<\/p>\n

    No brain waves needed here and I love that.<\/p>\n

    If the caffeine in my coffee is activating like a force of YIN, that moment of quiet peace with a warm cuppa is totally my inner balance of YANG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    The thing about Oprah is that she’s such an amazing accomplished [fill in the blank with whatever superlative you got] woman. Seeing all that amazingness, people often think they need to do exactly<\/span> <\/em>what she does, because … Oprah!<\/p>\n

    But you don’t. It’s the principle that matters, not the particulars.<\/p>\n

    And the principle is this:<\/p>\n

    Find the solution that works for you to start your day. ID the routine that brings peace and balance before you step back into the wind-tunnel of your life again. So whether you take coffee or don’t, write your gratitude inventory or not … none of that matters nearly as much as creating something that settles and centers you.<\/p>\n

    But how do you find it?\u00a0How do you know if you picked the right AM rituals for your day?<\/p>\n

    You’ll know if you find yourself looking forward to them early, and missing them when they gets interrupted. That’s when you know you’ve found your routine, your way.<\/p>\n

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    SHARE this article with someone who could use this message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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