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Top 5 Autism Friendly Routines You Can Start Today · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Here are 5 autism friendly routines that you can implement
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  into your life right now, today. Don't go anywhere.
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  What's going on guys? Welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHDOCD and
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  dyslexia and I make weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  So if you're newer and here you want to learn more about those
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  OK, so autism routines, all sort of friendly routines.
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  Why this video is apparent and and why do I deal with autistic
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  adults but wants autistic children?
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  Autistic children love routine. We know this.
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  But as we get older, it's kind of like a lot of people tend to
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  feel like, you know, they don't talk about routines and they
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  don't know, you know what to do. And they've say like routines
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  and following routines is more of a child thing.
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  And there's a big speculation over it.
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  And a lot of kind of like, yeah, I have routines, but they're not
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  kind of, you know, helpful. They're more like OCD.
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  And so I want us to actually put in place 5 routines that you can
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  implement to help you increase potential in your life.
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  But why? Why would this increase
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  potential for autistic individuals?
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  Well, when we have routines in place, actually lowers a bunch
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  of choice and decision fatigue. It lowers the ability for you to
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  kind of get too burnt out because what happens is when you
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  have a routine, you actually have access to dopamine.
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  Dopamine is awesome and it helps you feel good and helps you feel
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  more relaxed. And also this will overall
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  benefit your entire life. So buckle up, lock in.
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  And by the way, if you want to learn more about being confident
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  and autistic, I have a free program you download completely
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  free. Just go to
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  www.bulletproofbrain.org right now.
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  Totally free links down below. Let's go again.
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  First of all, having a fixed start and end time to your day
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  makes a hell of a difference. So like wake up and sleep time
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  are the same every single day. This does so much for regulation
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  of not just your mental and neurological kind of the health,
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  but in terms of your actual physical health, your body will
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  reward you. So I would say is that even on
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  weekends, try and keep to a stable pattern of OK, I go to
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  bed at this time and I try and wake up at this time.
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  This will help stabilize, lower your mood and your focus.
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  And within 7 to 14 days, you'll feel way more like that.
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  You'll get so much out of just that one.
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  That routine alone is worth watching this video.
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  Now what's interesting about it is I understand that people have
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  kids and different kind of responsibilities.
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  So what I would say is try to find a routine that makes sense
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  for you. So maybe it's like 3 or 4 days
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  I've got about it this time, wake up this time and then the
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  others I do this. So it can vary, but as long as
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  it's a routine that you stick to.
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  OK, so let me see what's having an anchored morning routine.
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  Now, when you wake up in the morning, however, we just like
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  roll out of bed and then they worry and they kind of like they
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  rush around. They're like, oh, I need this
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  for my bag. And then, ah, where's my tie?
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  I can't find the other shoe. And it's all chaos, right?
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  And that's not what you want, but you actually want is ease
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  where you wake up in the morning and you grab the things that you
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  need because you already prepared them.
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  So basically do the same three things when you wake up every
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  single day, right? And so that is kind of like you
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  wake up, you drink water, you wash your face off a shower, and
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  then you look at the review of the day, like, where am I going
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  to be doing it today? Because if you're waking up in a
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  crazy mindset where you're like running around and trying to get
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  everything sorted, it, it's never going to happen.
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  So you prep the stuff the night before.
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  So you pack your bags out before, get your shoes ready,
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  get all your clothes ready. And then in the morning, rather
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  than worry and rush around and get all that kind of like
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  anxiety, but literally just do simple things like drink water,
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  eat breakfast, have a shower, look at what I'm going to do
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  today and execute it because all the restaurant stuff you've
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  taken care of the night before. So the next one is time blocking
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  periods. Now what's interesting is we as
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  a testing individuals, some of them ADHD as well.
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  I want to do everything all at once or we'll get hyper focus on
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  this thing and it will change to another thing.
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  And then we have loads of little bits of things all done like
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  half junk cans of stuff all over, but like you'll have half
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  cans of, you know, juice or stuff all over the place.
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  We never get to finish a lot of these things.
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  So what I would say to do is that you create using this is
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  the loop timer. I highly recommend it.
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  It's actually made for neurodivision individuals who
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  are adults, right? I mean, kids can use it as well,
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  but it's such a cool one. Like why not?
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  This is made by loop timer. The guy Cody sent me this
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  Awesome. If you want 20% off, I have a
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  link in this video for you. You just go to the description
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  down here or go to the link in my bio.
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  You'll be able to find loop timer there.
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  But anyway, and anything I talk about, always be in the
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  description or pin to a comment on Facebook.
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  This timer, you can block it off for like 20 minutes and then do
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  work in 20 minute or 25 minute spurt and then take 5 minute
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  break because it's important to stay on track with these things.
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  And if you have a visual timer telling you, oh, we're counting
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  down now and it seems super aesthetic and it's magnetic.
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  It's like sticks to stuff. It's awesome.
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  And when you have that, you're sending out the time, you say,
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  OK, well, this is the time that I'm going to be working and then
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  this is the time that I'm going to have a little bit of rest or
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  brain rest, right? Right.
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  And then if you have 4 arms and a stop, it helps increase your
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  productivity and also protects your focus and your and your
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  entire kind of burnout exposure reduces dramatically because
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  you're actually putting specific times onto the tasks that you're
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  doing that you have to do because we all have tasks to do,
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  right? OK, so the next one is daily
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  sensory reset. Now this is really interesting.
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  It could look like many different things.
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  OK, daily sensory reset could be, oh, I'm taking, you know, 5
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  minutes to have a walk, XY or Z time in the day.
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  But what you need to do is schedule time with a reset
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  window so that you have no demands, no talking, no social
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  media, low light, maybe even have like noise cuts and
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  headphones like these ones. I recommend the Apple Airpod
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  ones. I'll link them again down below.
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  So if you want these, you can you can check them out.
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  But just have that little like break from all input just to
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  kind of have a little bit of nervous system reset.
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  And it will help you so much because I'll actually reduce the
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  overload on the nervous system because you're allowing yourself
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  that time to just have that reset.
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  You know what I mean? OK, this is probably the next
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  one and the last one number 5 is the most important one.
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  And I did this and I practiced loads of different things to get
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  this right over many a years, especially during COVID is
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  always crazy. This is an evening wind down
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  routine. This is so important and it's
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  important for many things. You know, repeating these same
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  steps every night as you're down, like you know, you'll slow
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  down period before you go to bed is going to help you have a
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  better sleep, lower anxiety and reduce kind of like nightmare of
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  like waking up worrying about stuff.
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  And this is basically you have a routine at night where you
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  listen to like calming slow music or you listen to something
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  very like ambient then or maybe just silence everything in the
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  same order. You maybe light a candle, maybe
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  you lower the lights, Maybe you're watching like ATV show.
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  It's not going to calm me. But this is actually something
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  that helped me a lot is these are blue light blocker glasses,
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  right? And these things, I think I got
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  these from like Teamview. I'll link these exact ones if
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  you're interested. If you guys use Teamview, I
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  don't know if you do, but if you do, you see me, I'll link you to
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  these in the description down below.
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  But in terms of these, these blue eyeglasses, they stop all
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  of the, the Blu rays that are coming in from your iPhone or
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  your iPad or your, or your computer screen or your laptop
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  or whatever. And the TV, I suppose because
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  those blue light that the LED's gave off all the screens give
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  off actually not good for you when you're trying to sleep.
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  They're actually stimulating wakefulness in you.
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  And so at night time, I make sure that I wear these.
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  I go, OK, well, it's 7:00. I need to wear my blue eye
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  glasses. And so you'll see me wearing
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  these in in some photos and some things because I'm like blue
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  eyeglasses is part of my calm down and relaxation routine.
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  That means you can still use your iPhone or your iPad, but
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  you're going to calm down a little bit because it stops the
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  light that keeps you kind of wakefulness.
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  There is a setting on your iPhone, on your iPad and I think
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  on if you're using like a MacBook or an iMac as well.
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  It's called like night shift and it changes the light to more of
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  a Sapia and you can turn this on for automatic so that like 8:00
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  at night till 8:00 in the morning changes your phone
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  setting to a Sapios setting because sometimes we got enough
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  with kids at night. Sometimes you need to pee.
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  I don't know you're getting up and doing all those things now.
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  I highly recommend checking these out because like if you do
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  these routines, if you write this all out and follow it to to
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  a tee, I can guarantee that within two weeks of you
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  following this, you're going to feel like a different person.
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  Let me know your comments down below.
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  Give this video a thumbs up and share if you think it can help
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  somebody else. We'll see you in the next one
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  guys. Peace.