8 Easy Tips For Creating An Awesome Morning Routine In Retirement

How you start your day has a huge impact on the rest of it. In this video, I share 8 tips for creating an amazing morning routine that specifically helps you in retirement! 🌅

Especially after the pandemic hit, my morning routine has helped me build productive and powerful habits that help me actually achieve what I set out to do for the day - which turns into more satisfying days, weeks, and months.

Building the right morning routine in retirement does wonders for your focus, sense of accomplishment, and overall life well-being 🤗
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Cyn Meyer here with Second Wind Movement, a resource for older adults like you (or someone you care for) that provides education, tools and coaching, so that you live your ideal retirement lifestyle that’s active, healthy, engaged and full of purpose.

We focus on five main areas of life, the 5 Rings of Retirement:

✅ Growth
✅ Community
✅ Giving Back
✅ Health
✅ Finance

So that you can get the most out of this important stage of life and help the future you age successfully in place.

[kellykimball]

Can Wait to retirement, only 80 days away....thank you so much!❤

[davidforesto]

I will need more of these. Retiring from public services made me realise that I had no means to passive income and in 5 years I only moved around in circles financially, I needed to make investments immediately desperate retirement and that led me to this looking for ways out. I feel very accomplished every time I remember my journey and how I have been able to grow my Investment to a return of over 200% in less than 6 months. Mind-blowing experience really

[marianfrances]

I just subbed. Aging is not for the timid and we can use your help!👍😎🇨🇦

[vickieelijah]

I like the micro step idea to get things moving. Thank you.

[tomTom-lbcu]

I get lonely then go food shopping and mingle in with people then I really appreciate my love time. There’s 10 ignorant people for every one nice and friendly out there . Seems the way now is be as unfriendly as possible, I actually get tired of saying hello to people and being ignored 1/2 the time and yes I smile as I say hello. We are broke as people

[thatswhatisaid]

1. You snooze, you lose.
2. Drink water! (Internal shower)
3. Move your body
4 Flexibility exercises 5 min
5. Eat the damn frog.
6. Make your bed
7. Learn to have a cold shower, little by little.
8. Mindfulness practice. Individual: Meditation, breathwork, yoga 5-10 min
9. Journal, starting with gratitude. 3 items you're grateful for.
10. Think of a mini-step toward a microgoal you can do today. Write it down and hold self accountable.

[bobmichalski]

Thank you! It’s OK to mention prayer. Meditation is a bit different.

[goodearthenterprise]

Even better the second time through!! Thanks Cyn.

[nancys.]

Thanks for your inspiring videos I had had a yt channel for 12 years with no content this past week I took the plunge and am learning how to do vids starting with shorts! 🤣

[karens]

Cyn, thank you so much for this immensely helpful video. These small changes to my morning routine have had many positive results. Starting my day with some stretches and walking up and down the stairs 5 times before coffee has helped to combat my morning stiffness, as well as set a more positive and alert mindset. Please keep the videos coming!

[TravelswithLlama]

Sorry, no cold shower for this one! 😂

[johnfultz]

Cyn,  

I retired two months ago. I looked forward to not having a schedule and thought I would enjoy living a very unstructured routine. However, I found that I am not accomplishing a lot of the things I wanted to do during retirement. I haven't fully implemented all your morning routines, but I have started and am feeling feeling better and am working on accomplishing more of my goals.  

Thank you for your very helpful information!  

John

[KelJayBC]

Thank you for this work! So very timely. Such good information and love your positive attitude and enthusiasm!

[yorkiemom]

I almost scrolled after you talked about the alarm and pressing the snooze button. Older people, in general, wake up early. What research do you have that retired people use alarms or press the snooze button? The rest of your content was helpful. Finding purpose is critical at this stage of life.

[ccklinevt]

Cyn, great videos with good advice, thank you for putting these together. One suggestion; as a retired IT guy with lots of experience in AV solutions, I would like to respectfully offer that you think about getting a lapel mic so that your audience can hear you better. (RODE is a good brand) It sounds like you are perhaps relying on the microphone embedded on the phone or camera you are using to capture the video? In any case, it's not a big deal but psychologically, it's much more effective for the listener to process your message if it can be heard as clearly as possible. And since your production value is important to you (it's obvious you put a lot of work into these!) Cheers and thanks again for this series, good stuff. 😀

[tomcavanaugh]

So, the best things to do are exactly the opposite of what I want to do? That seems to be a theme in the YouTube-verse.

[rosalynwashington]

Thank you for such practical, doable advice. Love the frog…maybe to the cold shower increments🥶

[ctr]

More fantastic information provided in a quick and meaningful way. Wow!

[sheilapannell]

The tips were great. I walk around my house in the morning holding my weights for a couple of minutes,

[ctr]

Cyn, I was very reluctant to embrace the "cold shower" advice but this morning I took the plunge for 1 minute and WOW has it changed my morning!!! I should have been doing this for the last 50 years...LOL