Don't Overcomplicate - My Simple Morning Routine

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There’s something so special about fall mornings. Well, in this case, an almost-fall morning. After a long summer, the days get shorter and cosier. It’s just so nice to wake in the morning and brew a nice cup of coffee and watch the rain falling outside.

Fall feels slow but productive. I always associate it with back to school season even if i’m not in school anymore. I feel like looking at old books, curling up with a blanket and exploring new stories and new topics.

And more than anything, this is a time of the year when I feel very in tune with myself. I feel very… me. Like my environment, my activities and the weather match the type of person I am, the way I look at the world and how I enjoy living.

I always look at September as a time of renewal, new projects and new routines. September is my January and I’ve always embraced it with the same excitement since I was a child. After a long summer and an always present August slump, September washes away past routines. It makes me question where I am now and where I want to go next. It makes me question whether my methods are suited to the person I am today and whether there is some part of my life that doesn’t bring me value anymore.

It is also a time where I officially start looking at the future and wondering what the new year will bring me. It is a time when I start thinking about all the upcoming events where I’ll be able to gather friends and family, evaluate my relationships, ask myself what I can do better or differently, how I can change and evolve as a human being, a daughter, sister, a wife, a friend, a business owner, a learner.

The little details, like lighting a candle, rearranging my books in a different way, picking up a new paper journal and ditching the digital calendar blocking for a moment, are all small actions that help me stay grounded and break the loop of tasks and routines that has kept me busy throughout the year.

Abandoning some of the ambition for slower activities that may make no real sense in a world where everything can be pre-purchased and premade but actually fill your heart with joy

I believe in cyclical productivity and in my particular case, I’m lucky to have a predictable annual cycle. July and august are always months where I go through a difficult slump, questioning my work and discipline, finding it hard to pick myself up from the ground, focusing more on surviving than thriving. And September and October are times for self-development, improvement, planning and dreaming.

And you know, that’s fine. Remembering that we function in cyclical ways, not in a stagnant way, helps us embrace change and change is good. Change helps us grow, challenge ourselves and our past ways of thinking and what is fall but the season that best symbolises that change, with the leaves changing color and the turning weather.

So take this time to take a step back as well, reevaluate what is going on and take a deep breath.

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