Latest / Hurdle with Emily Abbate / #HURDLEMOMENT: How To Make Yourself a Morning Person

Transcript

#HURDLEMOMENT: How To Make Yourself a Morning Person · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Being a stellar morning person starts the night before, but
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: sticking with a morning routine means incorporating activities and habits
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: that fill you.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Up and make you feel excited.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily Abadi here coming to you from the
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Age Studio. You are listening to another installment of Hurdle
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Moment from Hurdle, a.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Wellness focused podcast. Reconnect with everyone from.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Your favorite athletes to top experts and industry CEOs about
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: their highest highs, toughest moments, and everything in between. We
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: all go through hurdles in life, and my goal through
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: these discussions is to empower you to better navigate yours
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: and move with intention so that you can stride towards
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: your own big potential and of course have some fun
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: along the way. I have been getting a lot of
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: really great input and feedback from the Hurdle community about
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: what you want to see more of on the show,
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: and for that I am really grateful a resounding thing
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: that you guys seem to enjoy our solo episodes and
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: specifically also the five minute Friday. So for today is
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: Hurdle Moment. I'm gonna be taking this one solo. I
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: haven't done this in a minute, and it's it's kind
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: of fun for me to do these every once in
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: a while. I today am coming in here to chat
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: about something that I know a lot about, especially if
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: you follow me on Instagram over at Emily a Bodie,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: you know this and that is.
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: Your mourning routine.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: How to own your morning something I've talked about a
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: few times on the show before, most recently with my
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: friend Liz Plosser. She's the editor in chief of Woman's
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Health magazine. I'll link to that episode entitled how to
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Own your Morning in the show Knowes But Mornings.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: It's a hot topic.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: How to be a morning person, how to work out smart,
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: how to move your body first thing, what should I
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: be doing, what should I not be doing?
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: How can I make sure that I actually get up?
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: All that stuff?
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to cover all of those bases in
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: today's solo episode because I have a lot of experience
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: with morning taking full advantage of the morning hours. I
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: know that you might not want to hear this. I
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: naturally kind of roll over around five point thirty at
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: the latest six o'clock. That doesn't mean that I don't
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: have days where I sleep in until after seven am.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: But it's just what my body does.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: A large part of this, and I'll talk about this
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: in today's episode, is because I get to bed early.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: It is very, very very rare, especially during the week
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: on a school night, if I am awake past ten pm,
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: which means that if I'm getting up around five thirty
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: in the morning, I've already mastered, conquered, enjoy, I've loved,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: savored seven and a half hours of sleep.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: If you are going to.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: Bed closer to midnight when I am, then getting up
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: at five thirty isn't going to feel so natural or
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: so easy.
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: Yep. Anyway, we're going to get into mornings today.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you all of my inspirational motivational
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: input so that you too can be a morning person
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: and implement some of these healthy habits into your routine.
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: Make sure you're following along with Hurdle over on socialis
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: at Hurdle Podcast.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: I am again over at Emily a Body and Baltimore
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: based hurdlers. I'm coming to town and I'm going to
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: be hosting a little meetup this coming Friday. If you
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: are listening to this and you are interested, feel free
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: to shoot me a message over on Instagram.
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: Can't wait, Oh, let's get to hurdling.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, mornings for me. Mornings for me are my time.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: They're my opportunity to reclaim my sanity and find some stillness.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: There is just so much that happens throughout the day
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: that feels unpredictable. But for me, first thing in my
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: morning is my time to kind of control the controllable.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: When it comes to me and being a morning person,
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: I've kind of always been this way. Like I've kind
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: of always been an early person. Even in college, I
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: had a roommate that would sleep until like ten or eleven.
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: Ashley, if you're listening to this, I love you.
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: And I would just like get up and go do
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: some other stuff, and thankfully, at that time it worked
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: for us. I do think that being you know, single
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: helps with being a steady warning person. But I do
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: know that it's something that I really take into account
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: when it comes to thinking about my life partner, because
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: I can't date someone that's going to make me feel
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: guilty for not staying in bed with them or living
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: a life that makes them feel okay but makes me
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: feel not my best self. I've got to do what
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: feels good for me. And what feels good for me
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: is being a morning human. I digress. So what we've
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: covered so far, I've always been kind of an early riser.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: It just seems to work for me. Before the pandemic,
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: I would say like in my working adult life, I
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: was definitely a mourning alarm setter. I now rarely set
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: alarms and just kind of naturally am waking up on
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: the early side of things. I will if I know
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: that there's something I want to get done before I
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: have something else that I have on my calendar, I
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: will set an alarm. But those days are kind of
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: few and far between. Perhaps it's because I want to
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: meet a group for a workout and I know that
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: I need to be there for a certain time. But
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: if I'm flying solo, I just put my faith in
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: the fact that I'll get up and I'll get done
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: what I need to get done to set myself up
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: for a really, really good day. A little insight into
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: what my mornings look like right now, I'm up between
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: five point thirty and six. The first thing that I
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: do is make an espresso. While that makes, I go
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: back into my bedroom and I make my bed. Then
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: I walk into the living room I journal sitting on
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: the couch. After I grab that an espresso from the machine,
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: I then drink that. I turn on up first if
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: it's after six a m. And I listen to the
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: news while I get dressed to go for my workout.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I go do my workout, whatever that might be. It
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: might be in the gym downstairs, and might be leaving
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: to go for a run outside. I might be going
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: to run with Brooklyn Track Club, whatever it is. Then
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: I come back home, I shower, I make something to eat,
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: I shake up my ag one from Athletic Greens while
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: watching the Today Show, and then I head into my
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: office and get the day going. Some days I do
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: like to go back outside for a walk, especially on
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: the days where maybe my workout was in the gym downstairs.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: I want to take out least a lap around the
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: block to get some fresh air before trying to get
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: my creative juice is truly flowing. But that like half
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: hour I would say in between when I make breakfasts
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: and when I shake up the ag one to like
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: really signify that it's time to get to work.
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: That's like a little up in the air. Depending on
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: how I feel.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: I did go through a phase where I added meditation
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: in the morning, and now I'm going to kick where
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: I do that in mid afternoon.
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: But it ebbs and flows in a way that feels
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: right for me anyway.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: I have been a morning person for over a decade,
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: but really what feels like my entire life, and I
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: do believe that part of this is hereditary.
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: Actually, I have.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Early morning parents, so this was behavior that I saw
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: modeled for me from a really young age. And now
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: my tips, now that I've given you all my background
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: on being a morning human, my first tip to being
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: a morning human is keep a steady sleep schedule. Now,
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: I feel like this may speak to a little bit
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: of my occasional lack of a social life. I am
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: certainly a homebody, but there is rarely an evening where
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: I am away from my apartment past ten PM. So
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: that means that even if I am asleep by nine thirty,
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: at ten or ten most nights, at the very latest,
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: even on the weekends, I'm going to bed by eleven.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: That means that the following morning I might get up
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: a smidge later. But my sleep schedule is pretty consistent
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: that I'm sleeping between the nine and ten PM hour
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: at the latest, and I'm up between five thirty and
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: six thirty. Almost every single day, I am consistently getting
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: about eight hours of sleep. And when I put in
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: the you know, the parameters between nine and ten pm,
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to sleep. Some nights, I'm literally sleeping at
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: eight thirty and that's just what feels right for me.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: So making sure that you're having a steady sleep schedule
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: is going to help you sleep better, get better sleep quality,
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: which is really really important. You can get a ton
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: of sleep, I'm talking eight, nine, ten hours, but if
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: you're getting crappy sleep, if you're awake a lot, if
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: there are things in your environment that are causing you
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: to reduce the quality of your sleep, like loud noises,
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: bright lights. You know, a partner, even not to say
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: that I don't want you to have a happy and
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: healthy relationship, but just saying that someone getting in and
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: out of the bed constantly can impact your overall sleep quality.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: You know, these are things that are going to ruin
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: your sleep, even if you are getting a lot of it.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: So Tip number one, keep a steady sleep schedule. Tip
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: number two, you're like you're good morning. It starts the
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: night before so that means having a wind down routine
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: that makes you feel calm.
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: I have my phone on a default.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Setting where it goes on do not disturb starting at
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: eight pm. I will check it at least one more
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: time before I get to bed. But I really do
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: try to put my phone down in the hour before
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: I am hitting the hay, so to speak, so I
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: can kind of wind down from that stimulation. I am
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: a big fan, big, big fan of beam Dream.
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: I talk about it on the show all the time.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: It's a basically cinnamon tasting hot chocolate that's got NANOCBD, rishi, elfianine, melatonin, magnesium,
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: a bunch of different adaptagens, and like I said, the
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: nanocbd that helped me get to sleep and stay asleep.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: And I'll take that between sixty and ninety minutes before
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: I go to bed.
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: And what I find is that typically puts me in.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: A I'm not going to wake up during the night mode,
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: which is ideal for me. I've seen it proven on
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: my whoopstrap, which I wear regularly, that I'll have less
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: disturbances throughout my night. I'll be less restless if I
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: take beam Dream before I go to bed.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: I do have a Beam discount code for you.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going to slip it in here just because i
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: want to make sure that if this is something that
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: sounds attractive to you, that you take full advantage of it.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: That address is a beam organics dot com.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: That's B E A M O r G A NICs
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: dot com slash hurdle. You'll get thirty five percent off
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: your first month subscription and then fifteen percent off everything
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: else on the site using the code hurdle at checkout anyway,
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: Big on beamdream like I said, sixteen to ninety minutes
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: before bed. Also really big. I'm like dimming the lights
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: in my apartment. I do not sleep with my phone
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: next to my bed. I sleep with it like too
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: far away from me just to reach to it.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: And that way I'm not laying in my bed scrolling.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: I'm really working on getting better about my skincare routine,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: just like trying to find things that calm me down,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: not drinking water too close to when I'm getting into bed, so.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: That I'm not like getting up to pin the bell.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: I everyone's going to have a different Goldilocks, you know,
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: approach to their nighttime routine, just like you will to
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: your morning routine. We'll talk about that in just a second,
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: but finding something or a series of events that relaxes
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: you is absolutely key. Taking a break from today's episode
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: to give some love to my sponsors. First up, Priority Bicycles.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you the what was it? Fifty five
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: and sunny degree fifty five and sunny degree fifty five
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: and sunny day? This past Saturday in New York had
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: me feeling some kind of way about.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Getting back out on my bike.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: During the pandemic, I incorporated cycling into my life in
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: a way that I never had before, not only really
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: embracing road cycling and picking up the pace on my bike,
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: but also with my commute. And that is where Priority
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: came in, because cycling doesn't always have to be hardcore
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: road or mountain biking. Right I am riding my Priority
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: bicycle around town on the regular, whether it's running errands
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: or just linking.
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: Up with friends.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: It's an easy way for me to get moving and
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: get to where I need to be.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: I love my Priority Bicycle because a it's.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: Affordable, but also the company is run by cycling industry
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: veterans who weren't just thinking of how to make bikes
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: faster or more techy. They wanted to make bicycles that
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: were easy to ride and maintain, not to mention they
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: are light and intuitive. The bikes have things like puncture
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: resistant tires and the biggest feature they have a carbon
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: fiber belt drive instead of a chain, which lasts.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: Longer and it is way easier to clean.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: If I'm talking about them, that means I have a
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: deal to offer you. Priority is giving Hurdle listeners fifty
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: dollars off their first bicycle by heading on over to
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Priority Bicycles dot com slash hurdle. That's pr io r
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: it y bic ycla dot com slash hurdle. Sometimes I
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm in a spelling bee when I do that.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: If you head on.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Over there, you'll get that discount by using hurdle at checkout,
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: and you'll also see a list of my favorite bikes,
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: some highlights of the great styles and all the good stuff.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: So again that's Priority Byschools dot com. Slash hurdle is
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: get fifty dollars off.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Your bike today.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Also want to give some love too my friends at
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: AG one from Athletic Greens. Oh man, I just it
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: fills me up that I have found a way to
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: incorporate such really great brands and sponsors into the show here.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: I have been drinking Athletic Greens for god knows how
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: long now about four years, and it is a no fuss,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: easy part of my morning routine that makes me just
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: feel better in my body.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: AG one from.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Athletic Greens has seventy five whole food sourced ingredients including
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: krabot Its, probotics, adaptagens, and superfoods, plus the antioxidant equivalent
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: of twelve servings of fruits and vegetables. Seriously, if you
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: think about what you're putting into your body on the regular,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: don't you want to make sure that this something, this
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: good for you is a part of that secret sauce
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: to keep you moving. Yep, exactly like I said, AG
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: one has been a part of my routine for years.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: It helps me feel my best.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I feel less bloated, more energetic, and when I don't
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: take it, and that's when I really notice the difference.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Head on over to athleticgreens dot com slash Hurdle to
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: get a year's supply of Vitamin D three K two
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: as well as free travel packs with your first purchase.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Again that is Athleticgreens dot Com slash hurdle to get
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: free these with your first purchase today.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: My next tip for you, skip the snooze button. Resist
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: the snooze button.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I mentioned to you that I don't really set regular alarm,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: but I totally understand if you are in the intro
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: phases of getting into a morning routine, or maybe you're
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: just not in the place in your life we're naturally
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: getting up earlier in the day. Is something that serves
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: you or feels like it serves you just yet, you're
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: gonna need an alarm. That alarm would be best if
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: it's not your cell phone, but it could be your
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: cell phone. I'm just gonna disclaim that the goal here,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: whether it's your cell phone or whether it's an alarm
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: that you buy off of Amazon, do not allow yourself
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: to press snooze. Yes, you're gonna have that moment, that minute,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: those few minutes right when it goes off where you're like,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: do I want to do this?
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Do I want to do this? Do I want to
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: do this?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: The answer is yes, you want to do it, And
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: if you start moving sooner, the less doubt you're going
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: to have in that decision. It's hard to think about
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that moment when you're done with your entire morning routine
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: and you're feeling really stellar and you're really happy that
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you did it. When you are like laying horizontal in
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: your bed and it's comfortable and it's warm, and it
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: is like free of like a lot of chaos, right,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: it's hard to think about that moment.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: It's hard to think about that finish line.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: But if you resist the snooze and make a move,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: you will be nine times out of ten more likely
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: not to get back into your bed and go back
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: to sleep. So resist the snooze button. Tip number five.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we're on five here, we are, okay?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Tip number five resist the scroll. Trust me, nothing good
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: comes from picking up your phone first thing in the
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: morning and sitting there and scrolling for twenty to thirty minutes.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: There are so many better ways to use your time
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: that will set you up for much better success, feelings, vibes,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you name it. This is exactly where phone placement can
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: come in the clutch. If you are just like easily
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: reaching over to get your phone, you're turning off your alarm,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you're lying in bed, your phone is in your hand,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: it's going to be very tempting to lay there and
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: just like investigate the things for a while. But if
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: you have to get up to turn your alarm off,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you're already standing. You can really see quickly if anything
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: like a fire is happening on your cell phone, so
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to speak, and then you can put it back down.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: The great thing about the morning, like I said at
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the top of this episode, is that the morning is
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: yours for the taking. You don't have to worry about
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: the other things that are going on in the world
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: at that very moment because this time it is yours.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: It is for you. So in this time, instead of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: using it to further drain yourself, take it as your
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: opportunity to give back to you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: That is the purpose.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that is why you hope or strive to
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: be a morning person, not to get an extra thirty
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to sixty minutes of phone time in your day. Tip
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: number six. Fill your morning with things that make you excited.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Morning routine should be unique to you. You don't have
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: to execute your morning routine in a way that you
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: see someone else do on Instagram or TikTok. If you
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: find that journaling is something that really resonates with you,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: incorporate journaling into your morning routine, and incorporate journaling in
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: a way that feels really true to who you are
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: into your morning routine. So maybe it's writing one page
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: in a highlight at the end of that page of
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: something good that happened to you in the last twenty
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: four hours.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: That's my current jam.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's using a five minute journal or a one
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: line a day journal, so many different options to make
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: something like that fit into your groove. Also, I mean,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: if journaling is not your thing, the meditation is your thing,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: maybe you want to be a person that works out
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning. Whatever habit that really feels
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: like it calls to you, right, that's what you want
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to put together in your ideal morning. Because if you're
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: just doing something again since you see someone else doing
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it and you think that it could be good for you, Okay,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: if you try it, cool, but if it doesn't resonate
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: with you, you're not going to stick with that habit.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: You want to make sure again, if you're getting up
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: early in the morning for trying to take advantage of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: this time, that you are doing things that make you
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: feel excited, that make you feel invigorated to tackle your day.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: On this note, I want to make sure that I
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: reiterate that if you want to be a morning workout person,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the best way that you're going to stick with that
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: habit is by figuring out what type of sweat makes
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you feel really truly good and happy and that you
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: look forward to. For me, it's no secret that I
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: am a huge runner, but there are days that I'm
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: craving something else and I listen to my body and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: what I am craving, and I go with that. Maybe
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: your secret to actually sticking with a morning exercise routine
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is finding some accountability, whether that is virtually or going
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to the same studio or simply asking a friend to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: be your workout and check in with you or check in.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: With each other after that sweat is done.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Trust me, when you have someone else waiting for you
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: or looking to speak to you or wrap with you
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: about what is going on in your life in your morning,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: in your sweat, it's gonna make you more likely to
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: actually show up and get the thing done. And my
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: last tip for you today when it comes to taking
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: full advantage of your morning routine and becoming a morning person,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is making sure that you shift your mindset.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: If you keep on telling yourself I am not a
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: morning person. I am not a morning person.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Well guess what you're putting that energy into the world. Instead,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: say to yourself, I can do this. I can handle mornings.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I can be a morning person. You don't need to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: lie to yourself and be like I am the most
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: excited morning person.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Ever. It doesn't work like that. It doesn't work like that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: But you can be realistic that you have opportunity in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the early hours of the day and that you are
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: willing and excited to try to take advantage of them.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Saying something like the morning can be good for me,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: saying something like these new habits will really serve me,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: setting positive framework, having a positive mindset around again a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: routine that will be really good for you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: If you get it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Nailed down, Trust me, you will not regret it again.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: A lot of takeaways here, and I want to make
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: sure that I'm helping all of you. So if you
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: do have more questions about mornings, about developing a morning routine,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I am all ears.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: You can leave a voice message for me and ask
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: a question at.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Any time by clicking the link in the show notes
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that prompts you to do so. Like I said, remember,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: being a stellar morning person starts the night before, but
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: sticking with a morning routine means incorporating activities and habits
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that fill you up and make you feel excited. That's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it for this week, another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: next time.