How to start the day right to help you live to your full potential!
Starting your day well is essential to better face all the challenges that await you. Taking care of yourself from waking up is the best way to give our best on every occasion and can really help us become the best version of ourselves.
How to start the day well then? Discover immediately with us what the psychological and physical habits can be, recommended to help us feel strong and full of energy from the early hours of the morning.
How to start the day right? Stay disconnected and give yourself 5 minutes of meditation
To get the day off to a good start, avoid picking up your cell phone right away and checking email notifications, perhaps when you're still in bed. Today, you know, turning on the smartphone immediately has almost become an automatism. Instead, give yourself another five minutes of disconnection from the universe, five minutes all to yourself, in which to recharge your mental energies in order to accompany you with sweetness and attention in the transition from sleep to awakening.
In these five minutes of total disconnection from the inputs of the outside world, try to do some meditation. Often this practice is archived as a waste of time, but that's not the case at all! themselves, it can be the best way to start the day well, training the body and mind and giving both strength and vitality.
Those who meditate, in fact, are able to manage emotions better during the day, suffer less from stress and acquire a greater capacity for concentration and endurance, becoming more and more self-aware. Meditation is also good for the mood and there is nothing better to start the day than doing it with a smile.
To meditate there is no precise rule or method, you just need to settle in a comfortable position (there are those who do it even lying in bed!), Play some relaxing music (but only if you feel the need to isolate yourself), and focus only on your breathing and the sensations it gives you, trying to free your head from all thoughts as much as possible.
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Have a balanced breakfast to live the day to your fullest potential!
According to the results of a research conducted by DOXA for Special K®, Italian women are well aware that breakfast is a fundamental meal to get the right sprint they need to be able to face the many challenges of daily life. Not surprisingly, the word they associate with breakfast is "energy".
However, the same research found that only 1 in 4 women are aware that breakfast should provide the body with 20-25% of the day's nutritional intake. Breakfast, in fact, if varied and balanced, helps to restart the body and to face all daily activities with energy. It should therefore be consumed regularly and it is essential that it provides both carbohydrates and proteins.
Moreover, for a "textbook" breakfast to start the day well, experts recommend fiber, minerals and vitamins, all nutrients that, with the quick meals of modern life, you can risk consuming an insufficient quantity. Special K cereals along with a protein source (milk or yogurt) and fresh fruit are a great example of a balanced breakfast.
The whole range of Special K ® cereal flakes (classic, red fruits, dark chocolate) as well as the Special K nutri-mi ™ line (nuts and seeds and berries) provide a mix of essential vitamins and minerals, offering different benefits for daily well-being: vitamin D which helps the immune system, niacin (vitamin B3) and vitamin B12 which contribute to energy and vitality, iron which helps physical endurance *.
A not inconsiderable detail: they are also very tasty!
A breakfast like this is ideal for starting our day in the best possible way, helping us to live it to the fullest of our potential and to be the best version of ourselves.
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Start your day with some exercise
We know, the time in the morning never seems to be enough, yet you can't imagine how many benefits being able to train early in the morning can bring! It is worth setting the alarm half an hour earlier to dedicate some time to our body and help it reactivate the metabolism with morning fitness. The effects of this workout will be felt throughout the day: your body will continue to burn calories. even at rest. In addition, with physical exercise you will free endorphins, and a good mood will be guaranteed!
The ideal workout to start the day well should include half an hour of aerobic activity, preferably outdoors: a little running or brisk walking will give you immediate well-being. However, you don't always have the desire (and time) to leave the house ... then you can focus on home exercises, such as a mini-circuit or, simply, a little stretching to help your muscle awakening. video:
Even practicing a little yoga can be a great way to start the day off right. The benefits of this discipline are innumerable and known since ancient times. Why not try the famous sequence of the Greeting to the Sun, one of the best known and practiced in the world, specially designed to greet the beginning of a new day?
It is a sequence of 12 yoga positions to be performed by synchronizing muscle movements with correct breathing. Practiced as soon as you wake up, it helps us to warm up almost all the muscles of the body, bringing benefits to the whole organism, giving us strength, tone and flexibility. And then it is capable of giving us unparalleled psychological well-being with its relaxing effect: focusing on breathing, we are able to calm the thought and decrease the anxiety linked to all the activities that we will have to face during the day.
Do something you love!
What better way to start the day than to devote some time, even just 5 minutes, to an activity that we love and that makes us feel good, of whatever kind? , it will be assured, and we will feel fulfilled and close to who we truly are.
If you love music, create your own morning playlist, made to give you a boost. Listen to your favorite song while you are having breakfast, or while you are in the bathroom getting ready, you will start the day with a completely different energy! If you prefer reading to music, take the time to read even just a page of a book, maybe when you are still under the covers ...
If the thing that makes you happiest is your family, get into the habit of sharing breakfast with your children or having an extra chat with your partner while you are at the table together. The day will start in a different way! happiness is to be found in the little things: maybe it even gives you pleasure to simply choose a nice look for the day, and then give yourself that little extra time to try an outfit or an original make-up. Every moment you dedicate to yourself will drive away negative thoughts.
Here are some sentences that can be of inspiration or motivation, to read in the early morning:
Focus on the goals of your day to start it off!
Visualizing your day can be really useful to start it well and not risk wasting energy. Create a sort of to-do-list, a to-do list with all the objectives you want to achieve, also establishing the necessary priorities. This way you will be focused on the finish line and well focused. You will also be able to better manage your time and optimize it, without getting lost along the way and meeting all deadlines.
But be careful: the to-do-list must not cause you anxiety, quite the opposite! Concentrate on fulfilling your responsibilities, but don't forget to include in the list the time to dedicate to yourself, to what you love to do and to your Welfare. Organizing the day in the best possible way is just for this!
Planning your commitments must give you peace of mind: while you visualize your day, imagine yourself always serene, repeat that no one will be able to disperse your inner peace. And if there is any unforeseen event, don't be discouraged! On the contrary, put it into a budget: you can't always control everything, but simply act to the best of ourselves and to the utmost of our strength, in full awareness of the potential we have.
* A portion of Special K and Special K Nutri-Mi flakes contains> 15% of the Nutrient Reference Values of vitamin D which contributes to the normal function of the immune system, niacin (B3) and vitamin B12 which contribute to normal energy metabolism, and iron which contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue. A portion of Special K and Special K Nutri-Mi flakes also contains> 15% of the Nutrient Reference Values of vitamins B1, B2, B6 and folic acid and, only in the Special K flakes, zinc. Enjoy them as part of a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.
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