Your Morning Routine Toolkit154your love for God, and memorize applicable verses. Use a fun
planner or planning tools. Get a new calendar app.
The more fun we can add to our habits, the more quickly
they’ll become real, solid habits.
I had a hard time building a morning God- time anchor
with my kids. We’d find things that worked for a season and
then didn’t work. What finally stuck was when I got each of my
kids a mini composition notebook and a pack of colorful pens.
Now each morning they sit down to read and journal with the
pens in their new notebooks. The small size of the notebooks
made it less overwhelming to write, and the pens made it fun.
Tool 6: Reward
Sometimes a habit is a reward in itself. The satisfaction of
doing it or the natural results of completing it make it easy to
do again. But some habits need a little kick. For me, that kick
is grabbing a cup of coffee at the gym after my workout.
While I already have the reward of completing a workout
and the reward of feeling my muscles getting stronger, there is
something celebratory about getting that cup of coffee. It’s like
a little high five to myself for a job done. Notice I didn’t say
well done. I don’t always have an awesome workout. Sometimes
I just walk into the gym, ride the recumbent bike for a few
minutes while checking my e- mail, and then leave. But I stuck
to the habit, so I get my reward coffee. High five, Kat.
Tool 7: Habit Scripts
A habit script is simply a step- by- step plan for your habit...
until it actually becomes a habit.
The three- minute morning is a habit script. We’ve broken