Week 9: Defining your optimized routine

Welcome to Week 9. You have everything you need.

Let’s put it all together.

Over the last eight weeks, we’ve explored our habits, motivators, goals, and how we can use each of them to build a routine that helps us to feel and perform our best. This week, we’ll revisit those findings and piece together an optimal daily routine that we can leverage consistently—and empower ourselves with to flex and adjust this routine as our lives inevitably evolve.

Review: our weekly focuses and takeaways

Week 1: The pillars of personalized wellness

We kicked off our time together understanding the pillars of personalized wellness—all of which we were to explore over our ten weeks together. I tooled you with the Self by Syd Daily Tracker, which you leaned on through our journey to help you to identify how your habits with fueling, movement, and sleep impacted your mood, productivity, and overall performance.

The takeaway: Your handy Daily Tracker and awareness of the elements to explore when life starts feeling a little out of control. Revisit this when you need a refresh.

Week 2: Intrinsic motivators and ~*manifestations*~

Then, we moved into our motivators. We learned the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and how we could leverage visualization to become our ideal selves now.

The takeaway: An understanding of what extrinsic and intrinsic motivators will get you up and moving, and an exercise to help you feel your best—whenever you need it. Lean on these when you need a reminder of your Why, or an extra push to keep moving forward.

Week 3: Identifying stressors and self-soothing habits

Next, we got mindful about our stress and how we manage it. We drew parallels between our mood throughout the day and any patterned behaviors that induced or relieved our stress.

The takeaway: An awareness of what habits or patterns cause you to feel stressed or feel relaxed, and a reminder that nothing out of your control deserves your energy. When you begin to feel overwhelmed, take a step back and practice awareness. Aim to avoid your stressors, but when you aren’t empowered with the option to avoid them, remember that your response determines your experience.

Week 4: Functional movement and exercise

Then, we explored functional movement and the three key elements of an optimized fitness routine: consistency, enjoyment, and progressive overload.

The takeaway: A promise to prioritize movement that you can happily practice consistently, and that continuously challenges you—but leaves you feeling ready for your day (not ready for a nap!)

Week 5: Finding foods you love

After exploring movement, we learned to fuel our bodies with food that makes us feel energized. We scratched the surface of nutrition with macro and micronutrients, and spent the week practicing the carb + protein + fat + color perfect-plate formula.

The takeaway: A go-to formula for a plate that fuels you, and the permission from yourself to fill that plate with the foods that make you feel your best.

Week 6: Crafting your ideal morning routine

Next, we took a critical look at our morning routines (or lack thereof), and identified elements to keep, add, and remove for better, brighter mornings.

The takeaway: A morning routine that helps you feel energized and empowered.

Week 7: Crafting your ideal evening routine

Then, we flipped the script and audited our evenings. We learned about sleep hygiene, and why prioritizing your evening routine is the key to a restorative rest.

The takeaway: An evening routine that helps you relax and restore.

Week 8: Planning your productivity

And last week, we got shit done! We spent the week identifying and scheduling within our peak productivity hours.

The takeaway: An awareness of your own schedule of productivity, and how to leverage those hours to perform consistently.

Week 9: You are here.

And if you’re reading this, you’re tooled with everything you need to step into a version of yourself that is aware, intentional, and empowered.

A version of yourself that wants the best for You—and not just the You today, but the You tomorrow. One that has spent nearly ten weeks learning and growing, because you knew that your potential is unlimited. 

I know that about you, too—and I can’t wait to see what you do with your new, personalized and optimized routine.

See you next week for one last check-in :)