8 Ways To Improve Your Mental Performance In The Morning

How you shape your morning dictates how the rest of your day will go

Dr. Conor Hogan Ph.D.
4 min readMay 21, 2021

If you want greatness every day you need to start every day in a great way.

That’s when your mentality will be boosted and your habits cemented. From there behavior over time will become the best it can be. Because how you use your early morning time dictates how you can face the rest of your day.

Here are 8 ways in which you can improve your mental performance in the morning time.

And all of these habits will then improve your daily routine too:

1. Drinking water early in the morning flushes out toxins and energizes your system.

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By drinking water early in the morning you are also helping your cognitive performance. Your brain is becoming immediately hydrated and when it is it can maximize its performance levels. And the great thing is it also helps when people are trying to lose weight.

Also by drinking water early on in the day your kidneys are flushing out wastewater from your body.

2. Meditating early in the morning steers your mind into being in control of your actions throughout the day.

And although you may feel like jumping out of bed in the morning and getting stuck into the day by immediately slowing down and centering your mind you are making sure that your morning energy is balanced and your decision-making is clear and rational.

Once you do that every day over a long period of time not only is your mind centered and calm as you enter into the day but your brain is re-wired to deal with greater pressures and challenges as they are unveiled to you.

3. Short exercises early on will sharpen your brain and trigger your potential.

And once you do them you feel as if you’ve begun to work your body for the day. Because every time you move your body in life you’re investing into your future. In reality, we are built to move yet too many people are sedentary and that leads to further problems down the line like obesity and becoming lazy.

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By exercising your upper body you’re training your brain as it’s more difficult to strengthen that part of your physique. By doing it in the morning time before you eat you’re making it more challenging for your body and that’s when your brain and body become more economical together.

4. Although many people drink coffee and it will stimulate your brain by avoiding it and learning to naturally control your brain you’re directing your behavior over the longer term.

Because the day that coffee runs out your brain can become confused. Although coffee is a fantastic trigger to get you going in the morning by taking it daily you are using it as a crutch to dictate your daily thinking.

5. Your body needs to stretch in the morning and when doing yoga at this time it will lengthen and strengthen your body. And that’s when it’s more efficient for you now and in the longer term also.

And once your body is long, strong, and supple it works the cerebellum part of the brain which is a large and ancient part. Although it looks after gross movement in your body it also allows for your body to speak properly.

And how you speak matters.

Because you will be judged on how you present your words to people and this builds many more neural connections too which benefits your brain’s overall mental performance.

6. By reading early on your feeding your brain with new knowledge that it will focus on throughout the day.

Because what you focus on you’ll see.

That’s where opportunities in your life present themselves. Reading gives you the opportunity to visualize and by visualizing you are seeing what you want out of life.

Of course, other things will happen around you but you’ll be able to use your energy more efficiently to notice the most important things that matter to you once you feed your brain with words that matter to you.

7. Avoiding news in the morning time will automatically avoid a negative start to the day.

Because unfortunately, news stations are there to try to shock people and play off their fears.

That’s how they get and keep attention.

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And if you fill up your subconscious with constant early morning negativity you are creating a skewed and limited reality of what you perceive is capable in your world.

8. By keeping your technology away from you before all your morning routine is complete you’ll take control over your usage of technology every day.

And your brain will recognize what stimulates you every morning are the habits that you create and are in control of.

So by starting off strong and demanding things from yourself you`re setting the trend to a more successful day ahead and dictating what you`ll bring into your psyche.

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Dr. Conor Hogan Ph.D.
Dr. Conor Hogan Ph.D.

Written by Dr. Conor Hogan Ph.D.

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