Why You Need to Create a Morning Routine in Your Life

Beltus Nkwawir
6 min readJan 24, 2021

Choose how to feel after you wake up from bed

Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash

We first make our habits, then our habits make us ~ John Dryden

Have you ever noticed that how you feel in the morning often determines your actions for the rest of the day?

Most of us wake up and we simply go with the flow of our emotions.

If we feel happy, then it’s going to be a good day.

If we feel depressed then it’s going to be a grueling one.

The problem with depending on your emotions in order to do the things that truly matter in your life is that your emotions are completely unreliable.

One moment you feel like moonwalking like Michael Jackson. The next second, you want to crawl under your bedsheet to never see the light of day ever again.

What you might not be aware of is that every emotion you feel is a result of biochemical processes in your brain and body.

Research has shown that the part of the brain known as the Limbic system is highly responsible for activating emotions.

Research has shown that the limbic system, autonomic nervous system, and reticular activating system are responsible for the physiological processing of…

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Beltus Nkwawir
Beltus Nkwawir

Written by Beltus Nkwawir

Data Scientist at Robert Koch Institute/WHO Hub | PhD Student Istanbul Technical University | MSc Computer Science | https://www.linkedin.com/in/beltus/

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