340: How to Love Your Morning Even If You’re Not a Morning Person with Jennifer Dukes Lee

About this episode

Jennifer Dukes Lee shares insights on how to love your mornings through intentional choices and mindset shifts.

I am so thrilled to have today’s guest on the show because not only does she have brilliant insights to share, she is also a very dear friend as well as my acquisitions editor! Jennifer Dukes Lee is the author of the book How to Love Your Morning: Faith-Filled Habits to Build a Life of Joy and Purpose One Day at a Time , and she joins me for this episode to talk about just that - how to love your morning! Jennifer offers a truly refreshing perspective that mornings aren’t about the time on the clock but are rather about the mindset that you bring into the day. You don’t have to wake up at 5 a.m. or have two hours of quiet to start well. It’s about the little intentional choices that you make such as greeting God in prayer, practicing gratitude, or reflecting on scripture. She reframes mornings as sacred opportunities even on the hardest days and gives practical ways to create rhythms that fit your life, whether you’re caring for kids, grieving, exhausted from night shifts, or just overwhelmed. We talk about how small, realistic habits such as setting out clothes the night before, keeping a prayer list by the coffee (or, in my opinion, espresso) maker, or even just stepping…

People in this episode

Host: Crystal Paine

Guest: Jennifer Dukes Lee

Topics covered

• morning routines
• mindset
• habits
• self-improvement
• parenting

Keywords

• morning habits
• mindset
• gratitude
• prayer
• self-care

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: How to Love Your Morning: Faith-Filled Habits to Build a Life of Joy and Purpose One Day at a Time

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