072. Win Your Morning: 6 Simple Habits That Make the Whole Day Easier

Organizing for Beautiful Living: Home Organizing Tips, Sustainable Organizing Tips, Decluttering Tips, and Time Management Tips for Working Moms and Busy Moms

Early alarms + school rush don’t have to mean foggy, frantic mornings. In this episode, I'm sharing the six small “levers” that reliably flip my mornings from groggy to calm and focused—no perfection required.

You’ll learn how to:

• 📵 Phone fast for 10–15 minutes to protect your attention and stop the doom-scroll before it starts
• 🧭 Use a simple Get-Going habit (coffee, unload the dishwasher, feed the dog) to beat sleep inertia and start your “target behavior”
• ☀️ Get natural light ASAP to reset your clock (even 5–10 minutes helps)
• 🏃‍♀️ Move a little (walk the dog, stretch, a few squats) to lift mood and energy
• 🧒 Set a positive tone with kid checklists so you’re not the household reminder system
• 😴 Prioritize sleep (and ditch the snooze button) so everything else gets easier

Here's what you can try this week:

Pick any two levers (e.g., phone fast + light) and run them for 7 days. Let tiny wins stack.

Mentioned in the episode:

👉 Get on the waitlist for my upcoming class, 3 Simple Steps to Declutter Your Kitchen in Just a Weekend --> https://fireflybridge.com/update

• Effects of using a snooze alarm on sleep inertia after morning awakening - Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2022 Dec 31;41:43. doi:
  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9804954/
• Phone fasting ideas popularized by TJ Power: https://www.uniladtech.com/science/space/nasa-astronaut-how-much-paid-blunt-statement-388644-20250814

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