Bundle - Two Beige Morning Sidekick Journals. Morning Habit Tracker! A Science Driven Daily Planner for Building Positive Life Habits

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.

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!

Most of the pages are filled with repetitive instructional material telling you how, why, when, to wake up early. This message is repeated over and over and over with stories, examples, ways to do it and more. The primary focus of the book is wake up early. You will feel better and be more productive. That’s pretty much it. I felt duped that I paid for a “journal” and most of the pages are filled with instructions and reminders to “wake up early”.If the book needs so much instruction, they should be printed separately, perhaps a pamphlet. It seems unreasonable to charge for a journal that’s filled with the seller’s thoughts, leaving almost no room for the buyer. That’s not a journal, it’s a book or a guide. I found it repetitive. Every day is filled with the same message, to “wake early” Why couldn’t that be printed once with “repeat daily? There are many positive reviews so clearly other folks like this book. I can only give my perspective so you can make up your mind. As for me I will look for another journal/planner to write in when I “wake up early”. :)

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.