1. Joanna

2. I want to do Maximize your Mornings so that I can build healthy habits before I have kids.  I could lay in bed all day but when I do that I end up building my to-do list. 

3. Staying motivated! I have the bad habit of starting things but never finishing them. So I really want to stay motivated and develop a healthy habit.

1. Jackie

2. I'm tired of trying to do things (ie, be a mum!) in my own strength.

3. Like Joanna above, I'm great at starting but not at finishing. I'm on Day 6 now of MYM which for me is a record. When I was praying during my walk this morning I kept repeating "I didn't know, I just didn't know" that this is what it would be like. I've been blown away by Him - I didn't know it could be like this!

1. LaDonna

2. I want to do this because I used to love mornings.  I used to use them so wisely.  Over the course of 10 years of marriage, the births of 7 kids and the death of one of those babies I have lost that practice.  As a homeschool mom, if my morning doesn't start off early, before the kids and on a good note the day just goes hay-wire for everyone and we get nothing done!

3. My biggest challenges will be coping with my night-owl husband keeping late hours, our children waking through the night and getting sidetracked by the computer.  I will have to create a routine as free from the computer as possible as that is probably my biggest challenge.

1. Christa

2. When I use my children as my alarm clock I often go all day without reading the Word or spending focused time in prayer, doing my daily exercises that need to be done to keep my scoliosis in check, spending good one on one time with the kids because I am busy playing catch-up all day, or doing the various teaching and training activities that my husband and I have decided are important for each child.  Also I am regularly late for morning appointments and  church.  I often end up irritable and frazzled.  The days I get up before the kids go so much more smoothly and I am so much happier

3. The biggest challenge is that I am a night owl.  In my perfect world we'd all go to bed at 2am and get up at 10am (well, the kids wouldn't get up until 11).  Even when I go to bed somewhat early, I still feel like I have been hit by a truck in the morning.  Kat's "no excuses" thing is going to have to be my new motto.  Otherwise the lack of sleep is always a great reason to ignore my alarm.

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1. Marleah

2. I need to get better at starting my days with the Lord.  My current habit is to do my devotions before bed at night, but that's not very conducive to keeping Him a part of the whole day. 

3. I think my biggest challenge is going to be that my kids already get up around 5:30/6 in the morning.  Right now, I usually send them downstairs to watch TV, and I go back to bed for an hour.  Switching to getting up BEFORE them is going to be massively difficult for me as I love my sleep.  I think I'm going to start by trying to get up WITH them instead of going back to bed.  Then after a while, maybe I'll attempt getting up before they do.

1. Amy

2. This has been something I've wanted/needed to do for so long. I love the philosophy of MYM, and eat it up every time I read my eBook.

3 Going to bed on time. I'm a WAHM and can't seem to find enough hours in the day...waking up earlier would help. I guess I'll be switching from doing this at night to the morning but at night I'd rather catch up on my TIVO. :)

I tried to sign up for something like this before but found it hard to find where everyone was posting. I'm on twitter but never use it and don't really understand it. So I'll be coming here.

Prior to seeing this new challenge I've been getting up earlier on my own! It's hard but well worth it!!

1. Jenna

2. I used to LOVE the early morning, until I had my baby in December.  I got into the habit of hanging onto every last minute of sleep I can get before he wakes up at 7am and have put off my quiet times with the Lord until my son's first nap.  I want to get into the habit of starting my day with Christ and drawing strength from Him before giving of myself to my baby.  I am hoping this will allow me to get housework done earlier in the day and free up time in the afternoon to work on other things.

3.  I am in the process of giving up caffeine as I was relying so heavily on that boost in the morning- it became an addiction and as I am getting used to not having it, it's hard to imagine being alert and attentive in the early morning without it. Probably sounds silly! I also anticipate getting to bed 7.5 hrs before wake up time being a challenge!

1. Audra (@redmestic on twitter, penguinelk on many forums)

2. I need a kick in the tail to make Christ a priority ALL DAY LONG.  With 2 under 2 (at least until Buggy's 2nd birthday next week), I sleep any chance I get.  My quiet time has been reading "My Utmost for His Highest" whenever I have a few minutes alone in the bathroom.

3. Hubby's late nights (though a bedtime would probably do him good and cut down his coffee!), both kids waking at night, not being able to nap during the day since the boys don't nap at the same time yet, my computer addiction, my desire to get my house clean and organized (haha!)... the list could go on and on!

Hello! I stumbled upon this group because of a link a friend of mine posted about 4 weeks ago.  2 weeks ago I started to get up btwn 6:15-6:30 M-F I am proud to say I have only missed 1 morning.  I work 3 days a week and stay home the other 2.  I am embarrassed to admit that up until 2 weeks ago I let my husband get up with the kids get my daughter (7) ready and off to school and deal with my son (3) until it was time for him to go to work at 8:30 then I would drag out of bed.  Unless I worked that day then I would get up at 7:45 and runaround the house like a mad woman so I could arrive at work at 8:35 (the usual 5 mins late ; ) )  So the past 2 weeks have been great, he and I have been working as a team.  We both run so he gets up at 6:10 hits snooze on the alarm and heads out the door to work out.  I hit snooze a time or two and the get up and do my quite time and daily plan.  He gets home by 7 and I have our daughter up and eating breakfast then head out to run while he gets our daughter ready for school.  I am home in time to drive her to the bus stop while he gets ready for work.  (the days I work I walk or do a shorter run so I have time to get ready)  The problem I have been running into is my kids at least 2 days a week are waking up early and pestering me during my quiet time making me CrAzY (I am not a morning person).  I think I might try hiding in the basement this week. 

1. Kate

2. I have a fresh start - new house, new job, 'new' city - and I want to make the most of it. I need to get back into exercise and Bible study, especially, and early morning is the only time I really have to do that.

3 Honestly, the getting up part is fairly easy - establishing the routine and the exercise will be my biggest obstacle.