Why You Should Make Over Your Mornings, Yesterday

My baby was getting older and no longer a newborn.  Our sleep habits were back to normal and I wanted to start doing better at constructing my day with intention.  So I took Crystal Paine’s Make Over Your Morning Course so that I could ensure that I was making the most of my personal development and goals every single day.

Crystal Paine of MoneySavingMom.com created the Make Over Your Mornings course to teach what process she does to keep her mornings effective for her business and personal life.  Most of us could definitely do much better in this area.

With many goals in mind and a determination to have greater abundance and structure toward my goals, I invested the time to go through her course.  It was very simple and straightforward.

Make Over Your Mornings

You get your own login credentials for the course site, and there are 14 video lessons that you can take at your own leisure.  She intends it to be a quick two-week process, but you can go faster or slower as you desire.

It comes with a personal workbook pdf that you can work through as well.  The videos aren’t very long, only 10-15 minutes of Crystal teaching.  But the content in the videos is mostly different than what you’ll read through the workbook word for word.  Each section and video teach the same concept, but in slightly different ways.  So if you prefer the videos or just reading, you will still find the same value either way.  You don’t have to digest both mediums in order to get the most out of the lessons.

You’ll want to print off the workbook so that you can write things down.  There are charts and worksheets that you’ll want to work through with each lesson.  But also keep a digital copy available.  Crystal has put in a lot of other resources in each section that you can click on the links for, blog posts and books she recommends, etc.

What’s Included

Crystal covers many things over the 14 days.

• why you’re doing this in the first place
• setting your morning up the night before
• putting the most important things in your routine first
• having an incentive in place
• chipping away at goals every single day
• breaking your goals down into sizeable pieces
• have accountability partners for support
• creating lists that serve, not strangle
• dealing with negative mindsets
• incorporating great diet and exercise
• strengthening your habits
• dealing with mishaps or failures
• keep things in perspective

She includes a bunch of printable worksheets for you to use along your way that help guide you through the steps, such as:

1. My Morning Begins the Night Before
2. My Current Life Priorities & Goals
3. Break My Goal Into Bite-Sized Pieces
4. Create a Realistic Morning Plan
5. Our Favorite Breakfast Ideas
6. Daily Nutrition & Fitness Tracker

One of the great things she has applied throughout this course is that each day these steps will only take you about 15 minutes.  If it takes any longer, you’re working on things too hard or not making decisions quickly enough.  There’s room to adapt and make changes.  You don’t have to get it perfect right out of the gate.  I sure didn’t.

I also like how she has a daily checklist to incorporate what questions to ask yourself, things to do next, and the steps you need to implement in order to move forward.  She also includes additional resources and links for blog posts and other things that you’ll enjoy if you want to read them.

Here’s a screen shot of one of the daily checklists so you get an idea.  They’re not long and complex, plus add a personal touch.

My Experience With The Course

I don’t prefer watching videos that often because I know that I can read the same things much quicker.  So after the first few videos, I stopped watching them and just read through the workbook, knowing that I would still get the intended results.

I did find myself looking at almost all of the links that she included throughout the workbook.  Somedays I would do more than one section because it was simple enough to go through or I already had an idea exactly what I wanted to complete each time.

Now I get a lot of my most important personal things done before I even have breakfast.  My mind is clearer and more focused throughout the entire day, and I’m creating healthy habits that I’ve wanted for years.

I would write my morning routine on my mirror each night so that I would see it first things in the morning and not miss it.  This made it really easy to change or add things to as I went along so I didn’t have to rewrite something or type it up again somewhere else.

Overall, it helped me immensely!  Before going through Crystals’ course, I would work and try to get extra things done at night after the kids were in bed.  But I found myself not sleeping enough, being cranky in the morning too easy, and really not progressing forward in my life goals and desires.

I would come home from work at the end of the day and feel behind on the things that I wanted to do because I hadn’t accomplished anything beforehand in the morning.

Now I get a lot of my most important personal things done before I even have breakfast.  My mind is clearer and more focused throughout the entire day, and I’m creating healthy habits that I’ve wanted for years.

Is This Course For You?

Another thing I like is that Crystal emphasizes from the very beginning that this isn’t a course about getting up earlier.  Not at all.  It’s about creating a routine that will help you feel great about what you’ve accomplished every day.

So if you’re not a morning person and you roll out of bed each day after the sun is up, no problem.  You can still implement the techniques she teaches no matter what time you get up for the day.  That truly is the main worry I hear from most people when I suggest this course to them.  But not being a morning personal ISN’T something that will hold you back from finding great benefit from this course.

No matter if you’re single, married, pregnant, mother of three, or middle-aged, all aspects of this course can be implemented no matter what part of life you reside in.

Pros

To break it down simply, here are the great things about this course.

• it’s very inexpensive
• you can learn and implement quickly
• you can take things as fast or slow as you desire
• it doesn’t require huge amounts of effort that may seem impossible to do
• you can relate to the teacher because of the personal touch and stories she shares
• it comes with all the necessary checklists and tasks to set yourself up for success
• you have lifetime access to the course if you wish to take it again in the future
• you will be able to make changes quickly and easily to that you develop a good routine
• you won’t feel like you’re quitting cold turkey on your previous habits
• you can look back throughout and track your progress, make improvements, and keep moving forward

Cons

Nothing is ever perfect, but I only found one thing that bugged me a little about this course.

• I didn’t feel like there was additional value in watching the videos along with ready through the workbook.

I also have read some comments from other individuals that expressed how they didn’t like the way Crystal was looking away from the camera instead of directly at it in the videos.  This didn’t bother me, from the few videos that I did watch.  But I can understand how someone would want a more personalized feel from videos by having the teacher look directly at the camera.

But overall, I would rate this course an excellent five out of five stars!  And I haven’t even told you the best part.

The cost for this course is only $17!!  That is an excellent deal for the enormous value and relational strategies that Crystal provides in her course.  It was really a no-brainer for me when I realized what the course cost.  And it was very well spent.

Where To Get The Course

It’s simple.  Just follow my link below and it will take you to the Make Over Your Mornings Course where you can read even more excellent information about it.  There are more testimonials for others like me that feel it’s a most worthy investment in yourself.

It’s made a difference for me and I know it will make a difference for you.  You’re a smart person and I encourage you to make over your mornings to create a better life today.

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BONUS!!

And just for taking the course, I will send you my personal list of books and resources that I’ve used and regularly refer to in order to find greater fulfillment and effectiveness in my life.  Just send me an email (sarah at mynaturalbabybirth.com) with your receipt of purchase and I’ll send my list right away.

You’re awesome!