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  • 🌅 NEWLY UPDATED TRACKING: The greatest Olympic athletes track their progress daily. That's why we've implemented a simple, comprehensive tracking system in our daily planner to hold you accountable every morning. The end result: incredible consistency. Each night you write out the specific actions you'll take in the morning so that when you wake up, you don't have to think, just do. *Note: this is an UNDATED journal that has recently been updated for 2019!
  • 🔥CRYSTAL CLEAR PURPOSE: The key to achieving any big change in life is having a clear reason for doing so. That's why we have a whole section dedicated to "Understanding Your Why" right in the beginning of the notebook for you to unlock your true inner potential.
  • 🚀 PROGRESS IN STAGES: Our morning planner uses 3 phases to help you get the ball rolling and keep up momentum with your morning productivity, morning energy, and overall health.
  • 🍿 DAILY CONTENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY: Each day your planner will have a new bite-sized, actionable piece of content that you can apply immediately to improving your mornings. From productivity tips, success stories of millionaires, habits, and daily challenges, there is something to boost your motivation every day.
  • âś… LIFETIME GUARANTEED: The Morning Sidekick Journal, morning routine building system has been used by high level athletes, students, and parents alike. If you are unhappy with your purchase, just return it and we will refund your money.
Revolutionary

This Journal is REVOLUTIONARY! I have spent most of my adult life trying to enhance and improve the quality of my life, this journal created a unique shift that made it work. The pressure was off to be perfect immediately, it encouraged continuous improvement, and incorporates tools from authors that are expect in their fields, (some of which I was familiar and actually owned) and breathe new life into my journal work using those tools. Now I will admit, I jumped in so fast, that it was not until day 5 or 6 that I felt my dates were wacky and I had misunderstood something, but after a few more days with my white out pen I reached out to customer service and to my surprise Mikey got back to me, a couple of times, until I was completely clear. That was important to me, not something I have not ever experienced from any of the growth, development or self help products I have purchased over the years, especially for a journal. Although you can make it your own, and follow your own process, it is nice to know the intended process, there is a method to their madness :), and I like it, it has changed my day, especially my morning. Thank you!

Fun and real

What i like is the straight forward writing and no glossing over the process for getting habits engrained. It's fun and light hearted and mot preachy. I've started and looked at about six journals this year, They start out well and then get to overwhelming with all the boxes to fill in that i get fed up and quit. Each day is different for me as to where I work and sometimes what I do so i need less slavish adherence to exactly the same routine. Im hoping that this little side kick with its extra notebooks for ideas will do just that.

Such a good tool, but not a miracle. You have to want to make changes!

This helped me immensely! This is not a miracle. You need to be ready and committed to making changes. I think this is something to purchase after you’ve already started a life change like dieting or working out or something and you’ve got the motivation to make changes in your life. This book helps you to keep on track and keeps you accountable. I made tons of excuses in my head before about why I couldn’t wake up with my first alarm and get my day going. It’s easy to just say “tomorrow” every day. With this book, you’re going to write down your goals each night/morning for the next night/morning. Then each day you will have to come to terms with the fact that you can’t check some of those boxes off. My advice, pick very small goals at first. You’ll write out a morning routine every day and I chose too large of things at first. My 5 morning routines that I write down are getting up with my first alarm, brushing my teeth right when I get up, making a cup of coffee, making a protein shake, and getting up off the couch at the end of a specific news segment. It sounds so simple but it was a struggle for me because I would lay in bed, spend time on my phone, etc. I have never felt more productive in my life. Another piece of advice, don’t get complacent and think you don’t need to write in the book after a few weeks in. When I would give up on the book, thinking I had this down, I would regress. You have to want this and commit to it and this will help you be accountable!

Great value for a daily and weekly "morning routine" coach

This is such a valuable resource for building a morning routine habit — which success coaches universally acknowledge as key to having fulfilling days and reaching goals. Maybe some potential buyers might be deterred at the price for a journal "just" dedicated to morning routines; if you're struggling with morning routine habits, the cost is a small investment for a daily and weekly 66-day coaching tool to create that a keystone habit. References and internal resources are intelligently curated, and the overview summary at end is a unique, useful summary reminder of key learnings. I use and have used several other popular daily and weekly, and goal planners, even adapting some of them to support my building a morning routine habit. I'd thought about simply using the PDF (available at times with purchase), but the Morning Sidekick hard-cover version, with its high-quality paper, adds a little playfulness and dopamine hit to using it. I can see myself repeat-buying this as an inexpensive coaching tool to keep my morning routines on track. I understand that the team will be releasing Nutrition Sidekick and Meditation Sidekick journals. Looking forward to exploring these as well.

This journal is more then a "tracker" it is a ...

This journal is more then a "tracker" it is a "coach". Everyday has encouraging content to help you build new habits. When mine came in the mail, my husband was so impressed he asked me to order one for him too. It's part book about "how to make the change you want" and part journal about "tracking the changes you are making". Also they lead you to outside content so you can keep on learning and growing.

This has helped me kick my morning instead of my morning kicking me

I am the least morning person to have to morning in the history of mornings. I am a life-long night owl, kind of an insomniac, and was actually non-functional most days before 11am, no matter when i woke up. However, I run my own business with my husband, and we're trying to grow the business even more so we need more time in the day. So, to make that happen, I bought us each a copy of the Morning Sidekick Journal. To tell the truth, I thought the first week was a blast - easy peasy! But the second section is where I had to buckle down. Analyze my evenings to figure out where I was putting myself into a pattern that made my mornings difficult. Really thinking about distractions and setting up more of a morning ritual to help begin the day faster seemed easy, and the journal made it easy to figure out. Implementing the changes took some real effort, and now that I'm halfway through the 66 days, I can see my mornings becoming far more peaceful, far more productive, and far more awake than before. I now wake up at 6:30 every single day (a minor miracle, really - as it was hard to drag myself out of bed before 10 previously - working for yourself from home has some advantages, but really can be a problem when you work from 11am to 3 am and have to function the next morning). I'm generally getting to bed at a reasonable-for-me time (1 am) and I'm getting work done and dusted so that I actually have some free time to pursue things I love that AREN'T work - languages, hobbies, travel - in addition to getting more work done in the first place. I can't wait to see how I'm doing by the end of the whole 66 days.

The content is absolutely amazing and very helpful

The content is absolutely amazing and very helpful. I've only been using it for a short time but honestly would pay more for this kind of information laid out the way that it is. If you follow the steps and make your choices real, there is no place to go but up. Thank you to the entire team for such a great product and for all that comes with it!

playful, beautiful, and engaging - thank you for making this!

This journal came along at the perfect time in my life. I'd been struggling with my mornings and feeling so lost and powerless about it. I wasn't sure whether this journal was going to connect with me and help me build progress, or if it would miss the mark and I would feel worse for having spent the money and wasted the paper. For many months I just kept a bookmark on the Habit Nest website to keep it in the back of my mind. Then one day I just decided to go for it - and so glad that I did. All the worries I had about this journal - that I would run out of steam, that it would be overwhelming, that it would be aesthetically unappealing - all melted away when my journal came in the mail and I opened it up for the first time. This one is different! It's playful, beautiful, and engaging. I feel like I have an actual relationship with the journal as we respond to one another. Other journals I have tried have made me feel judged and inadequate. This one addresses the fact that I am an actual human being with all kinds of delightful flaws. And that's just the journal! What I didn't expect, and what has really been an unexpectedly powerful addition to my life, is becoming part of the online support group of people who are working through the journal at the same time, or who have completed it and remain with the group to give their love to those of us on the journey. The first day I logged onto the group, there were several other people who had all started as well within the previous few days. Just knowing there are other people out there working through the same process as me is so, so cool. Working on a new habit requires such great cognitive strength - and research shows that great cognitive growth occurs through social interaction. Being able to talk directly to others about my experience has made a truly phenomenal impact on this attempt at working on this habit that has been so tricky for me all these years. Last but not least - the Habit Nest team - love you guys. Not only do I feel your love and support every day as I interact with your product - you interact with me in other ways too through the online support group, the weekly newsletter, and invitations printed in the book for me to reach out to you by email and share my experience. I genuinely feel you rooting for me, cheering me on, and I can't wait for the celebration that is coming on day 66!

I absolutely love this journal

I absolutely love this journal. I originally purchased this for myself directly from HabitNest in the fall, and I loved it so much I bought my husband a copy and now he's maximizing his mornings with me! I'm almost on day 50, so towards the end of the 66 day journal. I've always considered myself a night person, and my natural wake up time was about 10 am. Since starting this book, I've worked my way up to getting up every day at 5:30 am and I'm loving it. This has helped me improve my mornings and my whole day! I accomplish so much more and feel so much healthier. I meditate, exercise, read, and I'm learning a new language all before 8 am. This journal does a great job of emphasizing the importance of building habits through repetition. The journal is simplistic, it usually takes me about 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes at night but I love the helpful tips and recommendations they have. You can also tell they really did their research. For instance, the first day I missed and didn't get my morning routine done, the paragraph for that day was how to handle missing a day, ha. I felt like they new when people dip and get discouraged. So, if you're on the edge, buy this book! I feel like I can't do it enough justice when I say it's been an incredible purchase for me.

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