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43. How To Sleep Like a Queen and Wake Up Like a CEO
Tell me, how many times have you heard people talk about the importance of a morning routine?
They say, “Do something that motivates you, moves you and”)…I can’t remember the other one.
But the point is, there’s a lot of focus on how to improve on the routine that take place first thing in the morning...
What you’re not being told is that the most important routine of the day is the one that takes place moments before you close your eyes to sleep.
Not only is it the most important, but it’s also when the time of the day the magic is most likely to take place. As your body starts to rest, your brain is at its most receptive, sorting memories, reinforcing habits, and priming itself for action as soon as your eyes reopen
What you do in these final hours of the day doesn’t just influence sleep, it programs your tomorrow.
In this article, I will show you how to turn nighttime into your ultimate advantage. To prime your mind, body and environment so that you wake up feeling in control, with direction, confidence, precision, and finally stop saying “I need to get back on track” every Monday.
From sensory rituals that bring comfort to your body to strategic prep. This isn’t just a routine, it’s a blueprint for waking up feeling unstoppable.
Keep reading because mastering the night is how you wake up like a CEO, not just to get through the day.
41. How To Build Habits You Can Keep for Life
Lord, I’m going to lose my mind if I see one more person on their way to another Pilates class, tightly gripping a mint coloured smoothie, with the mat rolled up under their armpit as they struggle to find a balance between their fingers in the other hand to take the selfie no one asked for to pretend to their followers that these are the morning habits that make up their routine.
When, in reality, they are trying to signal to others that they have their life together, but deep down they want to crumble inside because it doesn’t feel like fun.
You don’t have to do it.
You don’t need a 4am start, a colour-coded calendar, or a morning matcha to change your life. It’s not necessary.
What you need to stop doing is pretending you’re someone you’re not, because this is the exact reason why so many women are failing to build habits that align with their highest version. Not because they’re lazy, but because they are performing.
Building habits that stick doesn’t require you to do everything, everywhere, all at once (great film by the way, would recommend).
The most you need to do is lace your trainers up, and that’s it. One small act that signals you’re changing. Adding more vegetables to the plate. One simple act you’re changing. Not feeling pressured to respond to a text message as soon as you receive it, in case the other person thinks you’re ignoring them. One simple act you’re changing.
Because most people never quite realise, the transformation isn’t in what you’re doing, it’s in how you think about what you’re doing and how many times you can do it.
In this article, I’ll show you how to build habits that feel natural, sustainable, and deeply aligned with who you are becoming, not who Lizzy Online told you to be. If you’re tired of the pattern of stop-start-stop-start, then keep reading because this might be the last time you have to.
40. The Secret Routines of Women Who Never Feel Behind
Everything feels like water off a duck’s back.
They’re not clock-watching anyone else’s timeline. They’re not panic-scrolling through social media, suffering from FOMO. They’re not scrambling to play ‘catch up’ to society’s ideals.
In fact, the women who never feel behind move forward with often a subtle authority over their lives. Not to say they don’t understand the art of urgency, but they know exactly when to speed up, when to slow down and when to shut the noise out completely.
They’re not waiting on luck or scouring TikTok for the latest manifestation tips. Instead, their attention is given to a curation of their daily habits and actions that allow them to elevate.
In this article, I will break down the exact routines these kinds of women embody. The routines that keep them moving forward without constantly looking over their shoulder, while everyone is running in circles.
If you’ve ever wondered why some woman seem so certain their lives are unfolding exactly as they planned, you’ll want to read this until the end. Because once you see how they do it, you’ll never look at your own routines in the same way again.
36. The One Skill That Makes People Instantly Respect You
As much as we sit back and pretend we don’t care what others think, to be respected by our family, friends, partners, colleagues and even strangers is a feeling that makes us feel good.
But there’s one particular skill that makes people instantly respect you, and it has nothing to do with what you look like, the bag you’re carrying, the clothes you wear or who you know.
Instead, it’s how you show up for yourself and if you show up for yourself in the same way you expect others to show up for you. Most people hold others to a higher standard than they hold themselves, and then wonder why they’re not taken seriously.
I know, I know. You should be respected no matter what, but unfortunately, that’s not how society works.
So either you wait another century for the world to wake up, or you play the game, win, then use your newfound power to help change it quickly.
In this article, I’ll walk you through why keeping the promises you make to yourself is the ultimate credibility builder, the consequences of following through versus flaking on yourself, and the mental shift that will change the way you operate in every area of your life.
31. How To Make The Rest of the Year, The Best of the Year
Listen, you don’t need a new year. You don’t need a Monday. You don’t need another sign from the universe to start showing up like the woman you said you’d be. What you need is a decision one bold, definitive, unapologetic decision that the story changes now.
Most people coast through the second half of the year. They shrink, they stall, promising themselves it’ll be “next year.” But if you’re reading this, I already know you’re not most people.
There's still room to shock yourself. And there’s a version of you who’s not waiting on permission to take the wheel and turn everything around.
In this article, I’m going to walk you through my 6 step guide to the mindset shift, strategy, and unapologetic energy you need to make the next few months your personal plot twist.
26. Why Becoming The Best Version of Yourself Is Boring As Hell
In a world where we glorify transformation, the before and after photos, the rags to riches, the single to married life. The aesthetically pleasing morning routines.
The part no one ever talks about is that bit in the middle.
That awkward part in the middle that boring and unsexy. The space between who you are and who you are becoming.
The part where you’re all doing all the right things, but it still feels like nothing is happening.
No applause, no views, no recognition, no shift…just air.
This is where most people give up. Not because they’re lazy or they don’t want it bad enough, but because they’ve arrived at a point where it just is.
Becoming the best version of yourself requires more than a desire. It requires emotional discipline to keep going even when the process falls to a stalemate, and the invisible remains as just that.
In this article, I’m going to break down why becoming your best self feels so boring at first, what’s actually happening during that season (even when it looks like nothing is), and how to mentally reframe boredom as proof that you’re building something real.
24. The 48-Hour Reset for When You Feel Unmotivated
A question I hear often tends to run along the lines of:
How do you stay so motivated?
How do you complete that many tasks in a day
How do you remain so disciplined
And yes, I am very disciplined and organised, but I wasn’t always this way.
Believe me, even the most disciplined women have days (or weeks) where nothing can take them over the finish line.
That’s where my 48-hour Reset comes in. A push which allows you to reclaim your motivation even if you’re starting at 1%.
Feeling unmotivated can cause major interruptions in life. Recently, I wrote on my IG stories about the concept of not executing your ideas and having them go to other people if you do not have the motivation or courage to carry them out.
If you don’t move on your ideas, the world won’t wait for you.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes, an idea will pop into your mind, it sparks an emotion, you get excited about it, but instead of acting on it, you hesitate?
Days pass. Weeks. Then suddenly, someone else online is doing exactly what you envisioned, and you’re left wondering, “That was supposed to be me?”.
Ideas are energy, and if you don’t use them, they will find someone else who will.
So when you feel unmotivated, understand this: It’s not just about getting back into the flow, or even on track again, it’s about not missing out on the life that could have been yours if you had just started again
Okay, let’s get into the reset.
23. Discipline Is The Doorway to Your Dream Reality
How much do you know about the version of you who already lives the life you crave?
Did you know she exists right here, right now?
Not in the distant future, but in a frequency that’s accessed through alignment and embodiment, not waiting or wishing, or hoping. She doesn’t scroll for hours romanticising the soft life, she’s not pondering over another to-do list she won’t complete.
She decides. And then she disciplines herself to become it.
As I’m forming my own sense of discipline, I’ve come to learn that it’s often misunderstood. People associate discipline with rigidity, punishment, or military-style productivity. In fact, that’s exactly what would turn me off from strengthening my own.
But what if we flipped the script? What if discipline was the portal to freedom, empowerment, luxury and even manifestation?
Most people will never get to live out their dream life, (for a number of unfair reasons) but those of us who have a shot won’t, not because they’re incapable, but because they’ve never trained themselves to choose the long game over short-term and instant self-soothing.
That’s where the plot twist lies.
In this article, we unpack what it takes to build unshakeable discipline, the kind of discipline that builds dreams strong enough to withstand the test of time.
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