Niche Businesses a Midwife Can Open
Midwives have a range of skills and expertise that can be applied to various niche businesses within the field of women’s health and maternity care. Niche Business Ideas That Midwives Can Consider: Doula Training and Certification: Provide doula training and certification programs for individuals interested in becoming certified birth doulas. Offer comprehensive education and support to aspiring birth professionals. Midwifery Education and Workshops: Offer midwifery education and workshops for both aspiring midwives and healthcare professionals looking to enhance their knowledge of midwifery practices and principles. Lactation Consulting Services: Specialize in lactation consulting services, assisting breastfeeding mothers with breastfeeding challenges and providing guidance on proper lactation techniques. Postpartum Doula Services: Offer postpartum doula services to provide new mothers with physical and emotional support during the postpartum period. Assist with newborn care, postpartum recovery, and household tasks. Fertility and Preconception Counseling: Focus on fertility and preconception counseling services, helping individuals and couples navigate fertility challenges and optimize their chances of conceiving. Perinatal Mental Health Services: Specialize in perinatal mental health support, providing counseling and therapy services to expectant and new mothers experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Teenage Pregnancy Support Programs: Develop programs and services specifically designed to support pregnant teenagers, including prenatal care, childbirth education, and parenting support. Holistic Maternity Services: Create a holistic maternity practice that incorporates alternative therapies such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, or holistic nutrition to complement traditional midwifery care. Online Childbirth Classes: Offer online childbirth classes, allowing expectant parents to access childbirth education from the comfort of their homes. Cover topics like labor, delivery, and postpartum care. Baby Naming and Blessing Ceremonies: Provide baby naming and blessing ceremonies, offering a personalized and meaningful ritual for new parents to celebrate the arrival of their child. Maternity and Postpartum Products: Develop and sell maternity and postpartum products, such as maternity clothing, postpartum recovery kits, or nursing pillows, catering to the needs of expectant and new mothers. Childbirth Education Materials: Create and sell childbirth education materials, including books, online courses, or educational videos that cover various aspects of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. Parenting Support Groups: Organize parenting support groups or online communities where expectant and new parents can connect, share experiences, and receive guidance from a midwife or childbirth educator. Mobile Midwifery Services: Provide mobile midwifery services, offering home visits for prenatal and postpartum care, as well as on-call labor support and childbirth assistance. When considering a niche business, it’s essential to research your target market, understand their needs and preferences, and develop a business plan that addresses those specific niche demands. Additionally, ensure that you comply with all relevant regulations and licensing requirements in your area.
New Online Courses with Midwifery Business Consultation
With so many people on home quarantine, we have been really worked hard to get our online courses out sooner than scheduled! With barriers to going to midwifery conference and meetings, online education has been blowing up. There is such a need for education and in person conferences are a thing of the past. Online meetings and education will be the wave of the Covid-19 future (at least until a vaccination or herd immunity takes place). This site was created to help midwives improve their business skills and create long lasting, sustainable midwifery practices. There is too much midwifery burnout, lack of business education, and barriers with regulations to make midwifery boom to the level it can in the United States. I truly believe that midwifery could be the mainstream normal option for childcare if we support each other and have financial education. There will be many courses coming out the next few months. We have created a birth center course that goes into details about business side of birth center. Some of the topics discussed are business entities, marketing, liability insurance, budgets, business plans, business funds, supplies, staff training, policies, renovations, building leasing vs buying, and much more! This course is eight hours of detailed education with dozens of downloadable documents like contracts, marketing templates, sample policies, and sample budgets. Based on the massive demand for the birth assistant documents for training team, just opened the birth assistant course. There is a great way to train your birth assistant while not doing a full day long training program. It gives your birth assistants home study option and then can fine tune their skills with great questions and drill prior to their first birth. Save time teaching birth assistants about HIPAA, hand hygiene, emergency care skills like newborn resuscitation, shoulder dystocia, and postpartum hemorrhage. This eight hour online course with numerous resources will really prepare any potential birth assistant with needed education to jump right into their first birth with your midwifery practice! The upcoming courses will be billing and coding for midwifery, midwifery burnout, home birth midwifery practice, and marketing for midwives. If there are any courses you would like to see available, please don’t hesitate to message me and we can talk about your specific needs. Midwifery is becoming more and more online for continuing education. There is so much lacking for midwives specific to taxes, legal, business plans, and accounting. We are here to fill that need. Online courses about real business application will really help any midwife wanting to create a fulfilling, financial stable practice today. Look through our series of great courses to learn about clinical and business resources for midwives! https://midwiferybusinessconsultation.teachable.com
NEVER Been a Better Time in History to Start a Midwifery Practice
Midwives have been around for thousands of years! Having consumers with all this knowledge at their fingertips and the world going through a pandemic has really made people go back to the basics of living. Safe, simple, and family oriented. Midwives are prime providers for that shift in mindset. We live in an age where starting a business isn’t fraction of the costs to twenty years ago. Marketing online barely costs anything, mostly time. We can access millions of people to spread our mission, message, and services. Regulations and scope of practice rights are improving. States are giving more autonomy to midwives and birth centers so families can have access to birth options outside of the hospital. Insurance reimbursement barriers for out of hospital births are getting broken down. Legislature is recognizing the value of midwifery services. Did I forget to mention that World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 the year of the midwife? We are in a time where midwifery recognition is getting is time honored due. We are in a time when midwives can dream big and accomplish anything for their clients with creativity and determination. Our ever changing world is full of opportunity. Are you ready to be part of the massive demand or stay in your usual life routine? Technology is allowing midwifery to be promoted, researched, and sought after at an unprecedented level. Media, blogs, and Facebook groups are constantly talking about how amazing midwifery care is. We have opportunities to join together internationally with social media to spread our wisdom, resources, and inspiration. Be part of the momentum of natural childbirth fever. The pandemic is having families simplify and focus on what matters most in life: family and safe birth options. Talk with your local medical community. Collaborate with doctors and hospital administration to change empty hotel buildings into birth centers. Group with other midwives and create strong supportive practices that change the image of birth in your area. We are very lucky to have modern medicine and midwifery ancient skills so intertwined for birth options families can pursue. Take your dream of starting a practice and run with it. Follow your passion and fill the needs present in today’s maternity care system. Midwives can really have a massive impact on keeping low risk mothers and babies out of the hospital setting. Take your leap into business ownership and build that midwifery practice that has been weighing on your mind for years now! We have an amazing future in the United States and world to help families get back to normal childbirth in a personalized, high quality model of care.
Networking & Marketing Midwifery
Networking & Marketing Midwifery Marketing your practice can’t be stressed enough how important it is. In general, businesses can’t survive without consumers knowing about their products and services. There are many ways to market, but want to focus on the power of referrals and networking. Midwives have high patient satisfaction scores and really need to take advantage of our established families power to support the practice. Many midwife businesses need to invest heavily funds into marketing when starting up. With time, that need for marketing costs will decrease due to power of this referral system in place. Our goal is in time your practice will have a waiting list and not put a dime into marketing costs! Women are gold when it comes to marketing your skills and business. Whether you have a home birth practice, birth center practice, women’s health clinic, or breastfeeding clinic,referrals will dominate your incoming phone call requests. It takes time for that. Treat your women with respect, phenomenal care, and remind them to post reviews on Facebook, Yelp, Google, and your website will also accelerate that referral marketing technique. Have raffles and giveaways for mothers that post a review. Have a survey mailed or in office that families can complete and ask permission to post their feedback. In the beginning, take the time to meet with local business that would be a potential at referring to your office. Learn about their business and create value for them but sending referrals to their practice. Alternative friendly health care practices like chiropractors and naturopaths really are great cross referral options to be connected with. Great options to also connect with are yoga instructors, massage therapy office, herbalists, doulas, childbirth educators, lactation consultations, and hair dressers. The last one was a gem for me! There are so many women that regularly go to get their hair done. Hair stylists talk with LOTS of women!!! Get your advertising material at lots of hair salons and buy the staff lunch and talk about your services in more details. Other great starting points for networking are private Family Practice offices where OB/gyn services are referred out. Obstetricians and Pediatricians would be more creating collaboration relationships. Obstetric providers may refer to you if a patient is adamant about transferring to a home birth practice and now doctor knows of a reputable place to refer to. Many larger system doctor offices are strongly encouraged to refer within the greater organization for specialists. Private medical offices don’t have those limitations and like sending their patients to similar style private practices for continued care. The great thing about many of the start up marketing ideas are low costs and just taking time. Figure out your business plan and what volume you want to have. If you want to be low volume and another midwife is retiring that you will be taking over her established families, spend the time and resources another direction. Most midwives starting out will have no brand or reputation in area to get clients from. Build your name and mission to the community with your voice and great marketing material like business cards, brochures, and postcards.
Negotiating Midwife Employment Contracts
Employment Contract Whether you choose to work for a company, hire midwives, or improve your current employment contract during evaluation, it is important to know what power you have in negotiating. Midwives are valuable and we need to act that way. Too many times I see scarcity mindset of “huge” competition for a position and midwives just take what is offered and appreciate job was offered to them. Certified Nurse Midwives are one the lowest paid Advanced Practice Nurses and I truly believe we do it to ourselves. We don’t demand what we are worth when hiring on and discussing salary benefits. What a midwife hires on another team member to her business, there is so much lost opportunity to make creative employment contracts for long term retention and job satisfaction for staff. I am hopeful with time midwives get more business and negotiating training. School doesn’t teach you this part of professional career. It isn’t just about what salary are you offering me (that is just starting point of contract formation). Professional Based Employment Contracts Big hospitals are more strict in what can and can’t be tweaked on their professional based employment contracts. Creative acquisitions are best with small, private practices. Midwives can discuss salary rate, sign on bonuses, relocation stipend, better retirement benefits, personal investment into company after certain amount of time working there (my favorite to show commitment and best long term investment profitability), productivity bonus, continuing education reimbursement, health insurance coverage, vacation time, sick leave, and health savings account contributions from employer. My favorite is a health savings account (HSA). I have another discussion coming about the power of a health savings account for financial wealth creation. Please make sure your specific insurance plan can do a health savings account. Very powerful tool for tax free health coverage and account can be used for investing to grow faster if not used (fantastic tool to use with your health insurance plan). Midwife Contracts aren’t Just About the Money. Midwives need clear expectations whether hiring or being the one interviewing what the job description looks like. Are you doing full scope midwifery with births, prenatal care, gynecological services, primary care, infertility, or advanced procedures needing further training? Is the role against your personal beliefs (circumcision performing, abortion clinic assistance)? These are really important discussions to have during interview process. What is the weekly schedule like? Does the job include working just five days a week in office 8-5pm with hour lunch? Will the call coverage be separate from office? What is the call ratio? Is there one midwife doing all coverage for patients during labor or large group of 15 midwives? Midwives need to understand their specific goals for practice. Birth Coverage I was always a medium sized practice midwife when doing birth coverage. If no birth call was part of contract, size of practice wasn’t as big of a factor. I liked have 3-5 midwives in a team to support each other, cover sick time and vacation, but lose the art of personalized midwifery. I didn’t even apply for large groups or tiny offices needing extensive obstetric coverage. Everyone is different. Same with posting positions, clearly state mission of practice and what your midwife business is looking for a in a midwife. We want to be respectful of everyone’s valuable when going through hiring process. When hiring a midwife, have your personalized contract fit the needs of the valuable midwife in front of you. Learn during interview process what she is specifically looking for and see what can be adjusted on contract to make hiring process and retention more successful. If young family is important and discussed frequently with her interview, as the new potential boss, take notes and customize her employment contract to give additional perks for family time, insurance coverage, vacation time. It is all a budget game in back drops. Each midwife on team has a quantifiable business number budgetted for that staff member. You can break that budget up into salary, benefit terms, and additional perks that may actually costs midwife business more money. If someone comes to you as a “workaholic” meaning older, single, minimal family/support team in area, and loves to work. Discussing productivity benefits, salary, and long term investment benefits like stock in midwife corporation would be powerful tools to use. If someone discusses moving far from family and barrier of picking this position, increase vacation time to see their distant family more often. The key to negotiating in making a win-win for everyone. I have learned with time that when both parties are winners and the focus is how to make myself valuable for the other party, my wealth and personal requests are more likely to be accepted. Don’t forget the power of knowledge and value creation. Business courses help greatly with understanding each person’s position in employment contract negotiating more. Midwives want to be happy in their job and that includes having clear expectations on both ends what the contract will include and not include. Read them thoroughly. Have colleagues review with your contract. Lawyers are great to see if there is any jargon restricting your future practice (compete clause) if this employment contract doesn’t work. Know what to look for and what to ask for and the sky is the limit on your opportunities!
Navigating Insurance and Billing for Midwifery Services: What Every Midwife Should Know
As a midwife, providing compassionate, individualized care for families is at the heart of your practice. However, in order to build a successful business, you also need to navigate the complexities of insurance and billing. Understanding how insurance works for midwifery services is essential to ensure your practice is financially sustainable while also making care more accessible to your clients. The insurance and billing landscape for midwifery services can be complicated. Every state and insurance company has its own set of rules, policies, and procedures. However, with a little knowledge and planning, you can streamline the process, reduce the financial burden on clients, and ensure that your practice remains profitable. Here’s a guide to help midwives navigate the essential aspects of insurance and billing. 1. Understand the Types of Insurance Coverage Available Insurance coverage for midwifery services can vary widely depending on the state, insurance provider, and type of birth (home birth, birth center, or hospital birth). There are a few key types of insurance that midwives need to be familiar with: Private Insurance: Many clients have private health insurance plans, which can cover some or all of the costs of midwifery care, including prenatal visits, labor and delivery, and postpartum care. However, reimbursement rates and coverage may vary widely between plans. Medicaid: In the U.S., Medicaid provides health insurance for low-income individuals, including pregnant women. Many states cover midwifery services under Medicaid, but not all midwives are eligible to be reimbursed by Medicaid. Understanding the Medicaid regulations in your state is essential to determining whether you can accept Medicaid clients. Insurance for Home Births: Insurance coverage for home births is a topic of significant debate. Some insurance plans may cover home births, but coverage is often limited, and reimbursement may be challenging. It’s essential to understand the coverage options available in your area for home births and clarify what your clients’ insurance policies cover. 2. Get Credentialed with Insurance Providers In order to bill insurance companies for your services, you need to be credentialed with them. Credentialing is the process of becoming an approved provider for an insurance company so they will reimburse you for services rendered to insured clients. Verify Your Credentials: Start by verifying your professional credentials, including your certification and licensure. Insurance companies typically require midwives to have a recognized certification, such as Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) or Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), before you can become credentialed. Credentialing Process: To become credentialed with an insurance company, you will need to submit an application, provide documentation of your certifications, licensure, and malpractice insurance, and undergo a review process. This can take several weeks to months, so it’s important to start the process early. In-Network vs. Out-of-Network: Once credentialed, you can choose to be an in-network provider, which means the insurance company will work directly with you for reimbursement. Being in-network generally means higher reimbursement rates for your services. If you are out-of-network, you may still be able to bill clients, but they might be responsible for higher out-of-pocket costs. 3. Know What to Charge and How to Set Your Fees Setting fair and sustainable fees for your midwifery services is an essential part of your financial planning. While insurance can help cover the cost of care, it’s essential to understand what you can reasonably charge for your services and how insurance might impact that. Fee Schedule: Develop a transparent fee schedule for the services you offer, including prenatal visits, labor and delivery care, postpartum care, and any additional services such as ultrasound, blood work, or lactation consultations. Ensure that your fees align with industry standards in your area, and also consider any sliding scale options for low-income clients. Insurance Reimbursement Rates: Each insurance company will reimburse differently, and these rates may be lower than what you charge your clients. When you’re credentialed with an insurance provider, they will provide you with a list of their reimbursement rates for different services. It’s important to compare these rates to your fee schedule to ensure your practice remains financially viable. Out-of-Pocket Costs: Understand the out-of-pocket costs that clients might face even when insurance is involved. Deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, and other expenses can impact how much clients are required to pay, even with insurance coverage. 4. Billing and Coding for Midwifery Services Once you’ve provided care, you need to bill your clients’ insurance companies. Billing is a crucial part of ensuring you’re reimbursed correctly and efficiently. Proper billing and coding are essential for getting paid and avoiding claim denials. CPT Codes: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used to describe medical services and procedures. Midwives should be familiar with the specific CPT codes that apply to the services they provide. Common codes include those for prenatal visits, labor and delivery, and postpartum care. ICD-10 Codes: These codes describe diagnoses and medical conditions. When billing, you’ll need to include the appropriate ICD-10 codes for the diagnoses related to your care. For example, an ICD-10 code for a normal pregnancy will differ from one for a high-risk pregnancy. Claim Submission: Once you’ve completed the appropriate billing forms with the correct codes, you can submit the claim to the insurance company. Be sure to follow the insurance company’s procedures for submitting claims, which may be done via paper forms or electronically through a clearinghouse. Claim Denials: If your claim is denied, don’t be discouraged. Claims can be denied for various reasons, such as missing information, incorrect coding, or issues with insurance coverage. Review the denial carefully, correct any errors, and resubmit the claim. You can also contact the insurance company directly for clarification. 5. Educate Clients About Insurance and Payment Options One of the best ways to reduce confusion and ensure that your clients understand their financial responsibilities is by providing clear communication about insurance coverage and payment options. Provide Transparency: Before clients commit to your care, explain the insurance process, what their insurance might cover, and what they may be responsible for paying out-of-pocket. Offer an estimate of their costs based on
Naming Your Midwife Business – Midwifery Business Consultation
Midwife Business Name We all envision our office space and being next to a women during labor. How much time do you really spend picking out the perfect name? There is more pressure on this decision in your business planning than you think. Your brand and midwife business name has many levels of rewards and consequences of the message you are sending out to potential customers. Do you want to get lost in the crowd with a generic name that everyone else is like? Do you have a name picked out that someone else in your state is currently using (go to state business look up website to verify that)? Do you have a name that is so hard to even understand what your business is about (“Lotus Birth”)? Will families be able to find you on the internet searching if the name is too different than the services you are providing (“Grand Rapids Health”)? Your name says a lot about you, your mission, your philosophy of care, your branded image to the community. Pick something empowering, unique, easy to understand by vast majority of the community, easy to say, and MOST importantly speaks to you! I have seen people pick out a midwife business name in five minutes and others spend months making a list and pondering pros and cons of all the choices. Ask your Friends and Family for Advice. Explain what your midwife business will be about and see what feedback you get. Throw by them already brainstormed midwife business name ideas. Do a contest to have your community help create the name (great marketing tool)! If it isn’t just you creating this midwife business, compromise with your partner on something that covers what the practices short term and long term goals are. For example, if you want to eventually add primary care to the clinic with a Family Nurse Practitioner, picking a name with women’s health care in the wording will loose much of the community potential for primary care services in the future. If your niche will be breast feeding support, pick a name that talks about lactation counseling, lactation consultation, breast feeding, or breast support. “Breast is Best” is bold and tells the community that you support breast feeding mothers. Some people might be uncomfortable using word breast when talking about your business, so maybe focus on “Lactation Latch Support” or “Lactation Support System.” Taking the Time to Ponder the Proper Name is ESSENTIAL. There is always an option to create a more generic legal business name and then have your signs show the “doing business as” name. Just make sure both names aren’t already registered with another business. Don’t buy any marketing material until you know that picked name is truly yours (state will mail you confirmation you have that name registered). This is a very important step in your midwife business plan. Make a name that is easy to say and remember. “West Michigan Women’s Support Network and Resources” is a MOUTH FULL! You want something people can say in 2-4 short words. Longer it is, less likely people will remember your name to spread the word and do your marketing for you. Creating a mission, lists of services being offered, and goals first will help focus your words towards the right business name. Let your midwife business name speak to the community who you are, what your midwife business is all about, and make a statement! Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdC0sJsIlU
MYTHS TO STARTING A MIDWIFERY PRACTICE
Myths to Starting a Midwifery Practice I repeatedly hear midwives talking about the barriers (some real and some imagined) that stop them from starting their dream practices. One common theme is that they are not pursuing their midwifery vision, their desire for practice freedom, out of fear of losing economic security. They want the comfort of a paycheck or the regular hours of a structured job, and are glad to hand over the running of a business to someone else. Some of these concerns are legitimate, but there are many misunderstanding of what owning a business can really look like. Some midwives are concerned they don’t have the funds to start a business or the knowledge it takes to be a boss. These, however, don’t have to be obstacles. You can overcome both of those challenges. A first step can entail taking business and professional courses either in person, on line, or via self study. You can create a business plan with the help of a business mentor or consultant, and will usually be able to find the funding needed to create any dream business practice. Start-up money will not be an obstacle If you can show where the profit will be made or how a community need will be filled by your plan. Too many midwives feel they need to use their own money and start small to get to where they want to be. It’s hard to start a practice when you think of it only as a transition from working for someone else to working all the time for yourself. Instead, I tell midwives, “I want you to create a business, not become self employed” Anything is truly possible with the right experts on your team. These people—consultants, accountants, lawyers, marketers, financial planners—can fill the gaps in your knowledge and expertise. Some will need to be paid outright, but there are many forms of currency available. We can often trade our knowledge, relationships and time instead of our hard earned money while creating those dream practices. Time is our most valuable asset and I understand it when people say, “I don’t have time to plan and run a business” or “my job is a full time one that I need until the practice gets going” or “my kids have after school projects.” “I take care of my parents a few days a week.” “I barely have enough time to sleep, let alone start a company, which I have never done before.” These may all be true, but what I have seen is that anything is possible when you truly want it to happen. We all have the same amount of hours in a day; what distinguishes the average person from the great one is what they do with that time. Do you prioritize doing hobbies and projects that won’t impact your long term growth opportunities? Do you listen to the radio or to audiobooks while driving? Do you take a night class, or do you sit on your couch watching a comedy sitcom? Prioritizing your vision of the possible can shift your point of view—and let you see that there is time in your schedule to make the small changes that lead to making your dream a reality. I want to stress that creating a business does take time to plan and create, but planning well can provide more business opportunities than a job for someone else will ever offer you, and access in the long term to more time for you and your family. Where do you want to be in 5, 10, or 15 years? Do you want to be working the same 9-5 job Monday through Friday, or do you want to have multiple income streams and the flexibility to travel, perform mission work, or have increased access to midwifery opportunities? The choice of which path you take is determined by which mental and physical barriers you choose to get past. If you want to start your dream midwifery practice, these barriers can melt away.
MORNING HABITS FOR MIDWIFERY SUCCESS
As most of us know, the morning is the most important part of each day. Human’s will power is at the higher levels when we wake up, and it gradually decreases as the day goes on. That’s why the morning habits you develop, are the ones that are going to contribute the most in your success (of any kind). With that being said, let’s move on to our next keyword, habits. Habits are things, rituals, activities, that we repeatedly practice in our daily lives. As I like to say, our life is the repetition of all of our todays, and our todays are the total of all of the daily habits we develop and implement. That’s why our habits are so fundamental in our self-development and life success. Most of us, are starting our day in a rush. Having slept late the night before, we set about 5-6 alarms in order to be able to snooze, and have an excuse to sleep a little longer, until we are left with 20 minutes to wake up, dress up and leave the house. We start our mornings with so much stress and overwhelm, that it makes it really unlikely to enjoy the rest of the day peacefully. How would you feel if the first day of the year, you were filled with stress and anxiety? “Oh shit, if we started like that, what’s next?” Now imagine every single year getting in like that. With stress, no plans, no goals, no time to reassess and enjoy the entrance of the new era. Well, I hate to bring it to you, but that’s what you do every morning. And trust me, it’s worst that doing it in the first day of the year (that’s just one day anyways, a lot can happen). Be proactive When getting started on new habits and routine, it is so important to be proactive versus reactive. No one’s success came by luck. It happened because they made sure to do something different than the rest of the world. If you go through the day reacting to situations, that’s all you are going to do for the rest of your life. If you react to the alarm by snoozing it, studying last minute because you have a test tomorrow or starting taking care of your diet in May because summer is coming, then chances are you won’t be as successful as you want. Being proactive in the morning means setting intentions. Set your goals in mind from the day before and wake up right after the alarm rings. Read a book because you love learning new things. Workout because you want to be healthy all year long, not just for summer. Be proactive, and stop allowing life to chase after you! Wake up naturally There is a lot being said lately about waking up at 5 a.m. in the morning because you have to (I guess). I honestly think that this is so unnecessary. I mean, imagine waking up at 5 a.m. when all you have to do that day is, workout, put 4 hours of work on your blog and do some chores. There is no point. Depending on what time you should start getting stuff done, I suggest waking up 1,5 to 2 hours earlier. With that being said, if you have to leave the house at 7, then yes, I highly recommend waking up at 5 a.m. in the morning. But if you start working at 9, then waking up at 7 is ideal. Even in the days that I literally have nothing to do, I like waking up at 8 a.m. It is my sweet spot. It is still early in the morning, which helps me connect with my natural rhythm, and it also gives me the whole entire day to be as productive as I please. Taking one hour for yourself It is really important to give time to yourself in the morning. Waking up in a slow rhythm helps deal with stress and reduces overwhelm for the rest of the day. I like to wake up, make my bed, do my skincare, take a shower and then read a book on my balcony while drinking coffee. I look forward to this ritual every-single-day. It is really important to stay away from your phone the whole time, it can be distracting and seriously take the shine away from yourself. It disconnects us, from us, and that’s said from personal experience. In my worst days, I remember waking up in the morning, not even making my bed, eating a crappy breakfast and then laying in my bed watching Netflix ALL DAY. Now it is painful to even think about it. But it was a bad period of my life, that I went through, and now I am great as ever. Let me know in the comment section if you like to read my story on each topic that is being discussed. I feel like it becomes more real and honest that way, but your opinion matters a lot. Meditating Getting through life without meditation, is like getting through your day without sleep. It might seem like an exaggeration, but unless you start practicing meditation daily, and harvesting it’s benefits, you won’t understand the importance. It’s like living in the city for years, not realizing the bustle and the noise, and then moving into a village, where all the peace and the bird tweets make it feel like a paradise, and you realize how horrible the city’s bustle was. Set your body in motion As we mentioned before, human’s will power is at the higher levels in the morning, and it gradually decreases as the day goes on. That’s why you should make sure to get the most challenging stuff done in the morning. Working out after a long day of working on my blog and going to college and studying feels impossible. Getting it done in the morning makes me feel accomplished and more relaxed,
Miracle Morning: Midwife Business Secret to a Productive Day
Miracle Morning I feel that having great resources is just as important as driving forces. Some people are born with ambition and motivation. Others earn it by training their brains and bodies to function at its max capacity. How is it some people can accomplish more in one day than another person? We all have 24hr in a day. Why does it seem that there are people that can really utilize that time better? It isn’t that they don’t sleep! It is getting their brains and bodies to consistent work at the fullest extent possible. That includes feeding your brain with books and knowledge, feeding your body with whole, nutritionally dense foods, and exercising your body to keep it strong and agile. Health is one the few things in life that no money in the world can buy you. Time is precious and make sure your body is living to its intent expiration. Don’t cut the clock short with stress, poor eating habits, sedentary lifestyle, and unnecessary stress. Miracle Morning helped me really create those strong lifestyle habits. I consistently read books (for years only read a book for a class because someone made me). Now I read at least one book a week. Meditation is powerful for healing, stress, brain function, and goal making. Start your day out right be eating a hardy breakfast, spending 5min writing in your gratitude journal, and organizing your daily tasks list. Be as productive as you desire with non-stop energy. Review your life goals regularly to make sure you are on track. We only get one life, live it with no barriers or excuses of what you can accomplish. What if you could miraculously wake up tomorrow and every area of your life was transformed? What would be different? Would you be happier? Healthier? More successful? In better shape? Would you have more energy? Less Stress? More Money? Better relationships? Which of your problems would be solved? What if I told you that there is a “not-so-obvious” secret that is guaranteed to transform literally every area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible? What if I told you it would only take 6 minutes a day? Enter The Miracle Morning. What’s now being practiced by thousands of people around the world could perhaps be the simplest approach to creating the life you’ve always wanted. It’s been right there in front of us, but this book has finally brought it to life.Are you ready? The next chapter of your life the most extraordinary life you’ve ever imagined is about to begin. YOU DESERVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP TO YOUR FULL POTENTIAL https://www.miraclemorning.com/