Coaching practices for Ifs Morning Practice

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• By the time I notice I’ve been running on edge all day, it’s already too late
• I wake up foggy and heavy and it takes me half the morning to feel switched on
• However I wake up is how my whole day goes
• I open my email first thing and that’s it
• The first thing I do awake is grab my phone, and by the time I’m out of bed the inbox and the headlines have already set my mood for me

Practices that may help

1. The Morning Questions
   Marshall Goldsmith’s morning questions are a daily active question routine in which you score yourself each morning on whether you "did your best" to pursue specific values-based commitments the previous day. The practice reframes self-monitoring from passive measurement ("how did X go?") to active responsibility ("did I try?"), which research on active questions suggests produces greater engagement and honest self-assessment. The evidence base is practitioner-clinical; large-scale trials are limited.
2. Begin the day with a brief Self-check
   Each morning, scan which parts are up and reconnect with Self before the day pulls you into reactivity.
   IFS Self Energy, Made Practical
3. Exercise
   Move your body for a few minutes to raise energy and lift mood for the day.
   The Miracle Morning, Made Practical
4. The Miracle Morning, Made Practical
   Hal Elrod’s Miracle Morning is a stacked morning routine built from six practices — the SAVERS: Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing (journaling). The individual components range from well supported (exercise, certain meditation and journaling effects) to mechanistically plausible (affirmations, visualization); the bundled routine itself has not been tested as a unit, and the early-rising element is more preference than requirement.
5. Priming (the 10-minute morning routine)
   Three short blocks — gratitude, connection, and outcome rehearsal — to set your default state before the day sets it for you.
   Tony Robbins’ Core Practices
6. Create a morning protection ritual for peak hours
   Start each day with a brief ritual that anchors your top priority before reactive demands take over.
   The Time Audit
7. Silence (meditation or stillness)
   Start the day with a few minutes of quiet — meditation, breathing, or prayer.
   The Miracle Morning, Made Practical
8. Morning Pages, Made Practical
   Morning pages — three longhand pages of uncensored writing done first thing each day — is a tool from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way designed to clear mental noise and surface creative impulses that the inner critic normally suppresses. Evidence is largely anecdotal and practitioner-reported, but the mechanism (externalising rumination, bypassing self-censorship) is consistent with expressive-writing research.
9. Wake early and own the first hour
   Rising before your obligations begin gives you an uncontested block to act on your own terms.
   Discipline Equals Freedom: Jocko Willink's Framework
10. Protect mornings for deep work — no internal meetings before noon
    Morning is when cognitive capacity is highest for most people; spending it on reactive coordination is a predictable waste.
    Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)

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