My morning routine. Haha. I feel like writing an essay again. I guess I do have some sort of a premeditated "list" in my mind. I don't follow an actual list, I do things as I feel like doing them. But it tends to be a sort of positive routine of the same things I do every morning, in certain succesive order. Doing something like that every morning gives me, I don't know if you could call it strength, it's more like inner composure, having control over things I can control before facing the things outside of the comfort of my home, things I cannot really control. It's working for me very well. Every time I have to change my routine, whenever I'm travelling or staying at other people's place over night, it really does disrupt the whole day.
I've had this one persistent superstition from years and years ago. I always make sure that my right foot touches the ground first when getting up from bed. When I was a child, I read it from somewhere that if you touch the ground with your right foot, the day is going to be positive and it has stuck with me. I can't say that I actually believe it but the inner feeling of doing it is too strong. Hmm. I haven't had something really negative happen to me so, maybe it's actually working
I open the windows and take a breath of fresh air right after getting out of bed. It helps to clear the head. Usually I don't turn on the lights and I like to walk around with my eyes half-closed. I like the silence or I turn on my favourite radio station with the volume quite low. It helps to set the mood for the day ahead. Usually I wake up like three hours before I have to go somewhere (I live in a city where it takes about 15 minutes walk to get to just about everywhere). I like to do things really slow and enjoy doing them.
Yoga exercises, long shower, slowly preparing breakfast and then savoring the taste, going through my e-mails. I used to subscribe newspapers and I loved reading them all through from page one but now I usually read them online. It's not really the same but now I can afford to read through like 5 of them, so that's a plus.