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

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  Speaker 1: Being a stellar morning person starts the night before, but
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  Speaker 1: sticking with a morning routine means incorporating activities and habits
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  Speaker 1: that fill you up and make you feel excited. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on, everyone, Emily Abadi? Here, you are listening to
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  Speaker 1: another installment of Hurdle Moment from Hurdle a While this
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  Speaker 1: focus podcast reconnect with everyone from your favorite athletes to
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  Speaker 1: top CEOs and industry experts about their highest highs, toughest moments,
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  Speaker 1: and everything in between. We all go through hurdles in life,
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  Speaker 1: and my goal through these discussions is to empower you
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  Speaker 1: to better navigate yours and move with intentions so that
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  Speaker 1: you can stride towards your own big potential and of
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  Speaker 1: course have some fun along the way. So I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: this I think at some point on the show since
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  Speaker 1: the Imposter Syndrome episode came out, but that episode went gangbusters.
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  Speaker 1: You all really seem to enjoy solo hurdle moments. I'm
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  Speaker 1: here for it. And so when I took to social
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  Speaker 1: media and asked exactly what it was, what it is
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  Speaker 1: that you want to hear more about from me? There
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  Speaker 1: were a lot of you weighing in about becoming a
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  Speaker 1: morning person. I know I am often up with the sun,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll get into that entire routine today what that
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  Speaker 1: looks like for me. But I also recognize that not
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  Speaker 1: everyone shares the same enthusiasm about being up with the sun,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's what we're getting into today. I am
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  Speaker 1: giving you my tricks and.
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  Speaker 2: Tips for what it looks like to be a quote
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  Speaker 2: unquote successful morning person, and there is some motivation for
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  Speaker 2: you to want this for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Research shows that morning people are more proactive, they're happier,
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  Speaker 1: and they are also more consistent within their workout routine.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm bringing you seven different tips that you can
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  Speaker 1: use to become a morning person too. You might want
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  Speaker 1: to either have your notes.
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  Speaker 2: a fresh notebook.
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  Speaker 1: I love a good pen and paper moment. I'm here
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  Speaker 1: to help, and like I said, I want to bring
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  Speaker 1: you content that makes you excited. So if you have
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  Speaker 1: also do want to take a moment. I know I
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  Speaker 1: over at Emily a body with that. Let's get to it,
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to hurdling. Oh, mornings for me. Mornings for
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  Speaker 1: me are my time. They're my opportunity to reclaim my
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  Speaker 1: sanity and find some stillness. There is just so much
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  Speaker 1: that happens throughout the day that feels unpredictable. But for me,
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  Speaker 1: first thing in my morning is my time to kind
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  Speaker 1: of control the controllable when it comes to me and
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  Speaker 1: being a morning person, I've kind of always been this way,
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  Speaker 1: Like I've kind of always been an early person, even
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  Speaker 1: in college, I had a roommate that would sleep until
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  Speaker 1: like ten or eleven. Ashley, if you're listening to this,
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  Speaker 1: I love you and I would just like get up
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  Speaker 1: and go do some other stuff, and thankfully, at that
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  Speaker 1: time it worked for us. I do think that being
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  Speaker 1: you know, single, helps with being a steady warning person.
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  Speaker 1: But I do know that it's something that I really
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  Speaker 1: take into account when it comes to thinking about my
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  Speaker 1: life partner. Because I can't date some and that's going
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  Speaker 1: to make me feel guilty for not staying in bed
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  Speaker 1: with them or living a life that makes them feel
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  Speaker 1: okay but makes me feel not my best self. I've
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  Speaker 1: got to do what feels good for me, and what
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  Speaker 1: feels good for me is being a morning human. I digress.
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  Speaker 1: So what we've covered so far, I've always been kind
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  Speaker 1: of an early raiser. It just seems to work for me.
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  Speaker 1: Before the pandemic, I would say like in my working
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  Speaker 1: adult life, I was definitely a mourning alarm setter. I
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  Speaker 1: now rarely set alarms and just kind of naturally am
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  Speaker 1: waking up on the early side of things. I will
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  Speaker 1: if I know that there's something I want to get
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  Speaker 1: done before I have something else that I have on
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  Speaker 1: my calendar, I will set an alarm, but those days
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  Speaker 1: are kind of few and far between. Perhaps it's because
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  Speaker 1: I want to meet a group for a workout and
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  Speaker 1: I know that I need to be there for a
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  Speaker 1: certain time. But if I'm flying solo, I just put
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  Speaker 1: my faith in the fact that I'll get up and
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  Speaker 1: I'll get done what I need to get done to
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  Speaker 1: set myself up for a really, really good day. So
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  Speaker 1: a little insight into what my mornings look like right now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm typically up by like five forty five. Naturally, the
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  Speaker 1: first thing I do walk over to my espresso machine,
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  Speaker 1: make an Arondio that's my favorite blend. Then I go
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  Speaker 1: use the bathroom, take my medications that I take in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, put vitamin D on my face, and then
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  Speaker 1: I grab my n espresso. I walk over to the couch.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I open the open app no pun intended.
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  Speaker 1: To start my day. I pick a breathwork meditation that's
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  Speaker 1: between three and five minutes. After I do that breathwork,
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  Speaker 1: I journal for one page. At the end of that page,
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  Speaker 1: I write down a highlight from my day from the
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  Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. Then I typically go downstairs and
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  Speaker 1: do a workout. Right now, I'm strength training four days
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  Speaker 1: a week and running three days a week. One of
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  Speaker 1: those days is an overlap. The run is about twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes and the strength training is about twenty five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Then I come back upstairs, and that's when the fun
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  Speaker 1: really begins. It's a shower. Some days, if I have
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  Speaker 1: the time, I'll go back out and take a walk
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  Speaker 1: around my neighborhood for a little bit. It just helps
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  Speaker 1: me decompress and gather my thoughts a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Then come inside, shake up some ag one, hop into
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  Speaker 1: the shower, make breakfast, and before I know it, I'm
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  Speaker 1: at my desk. I'm opening my journal, in which the
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  Speaker 1: first thing I do another moment of gratitude, is right,
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  Speaker 1: what is one thing I am grateful for again that
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  Speaker 1: will be different than whatever I wrote in the morning
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  Speaker 1: in that journal, And then I will get into to
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  Speaker 1: do listing, looking at my schedule, organizing, and I end
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  Speaker 1: that practice by writing what is one thing that can
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  Speaker 1: make today great? Now? I find it important to tell
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  Speaker 1: you I have been a morning person for over a decade,
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  Speaker 1: but really what feels like my entire life? And I
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  Speaker 1: do believe that part of this is hereditary actually, I
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  Speaker 1: have early morning parents, so this was behavior that I
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  Speaker 1: saw modeled for me from a really young age. And
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  Speaker 1: now my tips, Now that I've given you all my
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  Speaker 1: background on being a morning human, my first tip to
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  Speaker 1: being a morning human is keep a study sleep schedule. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this may speak to a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of my occasional lack of a social life. I am
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  Speaker 1: certainly a homebody, but there is rarely an evening where
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  Speaker 1: I am away from my apartment past ten pm. So
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  Speaker 1: that means that even if I am asleep by nine thirty,
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  Speaker 1: at ten or ten most nights, at the very latest,
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  Speaker 1: even on the weekends, I'm going to bed by eleven,
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  Speaker 1: that means that the following morning I might get up
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  Speaker 1: a smidge later. But my sleep schedule is pretty consistent
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  Speaker 1: that I'm sleeping between the nine and ten PM hour
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  Speaker 1: at the latest, and I'm up between five thirty and
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  Speaker 1: six thirty. Almost every single day, I am consistently getting
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  Speaker 1: about eight hours of sleep. And when I put in
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the parameters between nine and ten pm,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sleep. Some nights I'm literally sleeping at
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  Speaker 1: eight thirty, and that's just what feels right for me.
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  Speaker 1: So making sure that you're having a steady sleep schedule
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  Speaker 1: is going to help you sleep better, get better sleep quality,
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  Speaker 1: which is really really important. You can get a ton
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  Speaker 1: of sleep, I'm talking eight nine, ten hours, but if
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  Speaker 1: you're getting crappy sleep, if you're awake a lot, if
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  Speaker 1: there are things in your environment that are causing you
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  Speaker 1: to reduce the quality of your sleep, like loud noises,
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  Speaker 1: bright lights. You know, a partner, even not to say
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  Speaker 1: that I don't want you to have a happy and
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  Speaker 1: healthy relationship, but just saying that someone getting in and
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  Speaker 1: out of the bed constantly can impact your overall sleep quality.
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  Speaker 1: You know, these are things that are going to ruin
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  Speaker 1: your sleep, even if you are getting a lot of it.
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  Speaker 1: So tip number one, keep a steady sleep schedule. Tip
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  Speaker 1: number two, you're like, you're good morning. It starts the
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  Speaker 1: night before, so that means having a wine routine that
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  Speaker 1: makes you feel calm. I have my phone on a
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  Speaker 1: default setting where it goes on do not disturb starting
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  Speaker 1: at eight pm. I will check it at least one
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  Speaker 1: more time before I get to bed. But I really
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  Speaker 1: do try to put my phone down in the hour
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  Speaker 1: before I am hitting the hay, so to speak. So
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  Speaker 1: I can kind of wind down from that stimulation. Also
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  Speaker 1: really big, I'm like dimming the lights in my apartment.
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  Speaker 1: I do not sleep with my phone next to my bed.
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  Speaker 1: I sleep with it like too far away from me
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  Speaker 1: just to reach to it, and that way I'm not
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  Speaker 1: laying in my bed scrolling. I'm really working on getting
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  Speaker 1: better about my skincare routine, just like trying to find
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  Speaker 1: things that calm me down, not drinking water too close
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  Speaker 1: to when I'm getting into bed so that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: like getting up to pe in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's going to have a different Goldilocks, you know, approach
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  Speaker 1: to their nighttime routine, just like you will to your
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  Speaker 1: morning routine. We'll talk about that in just a second,
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  Speaker 1: but finding something or a series of events that relaxes
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  Speaker 1: you is absolutely key. My next tip for you, skip
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  Speaker 1: the snooze button. Resist the snooze button. I mentioned to
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  Speaker 1: you that I don't really set regular alarms, but I
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  Speaker 1: totally understand if you're in the intro phases of getting
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  Speaker 1: into a morning routine, or maybe you're just not in
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  Speaker 1: the place in your life we're naturally getting up earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the day. Is something that serves you or feels
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  Speaker 1: like it serves you just yet, you're gonna need an alarm.
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  Speaker 1: That alarm would be best if it's not your cell phone,
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  Speaker 1: but it could be your cell phone. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: disclaim that the goal here, whether it's your cell phone
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  Speaker 1: or whether it's an alarm that you buy off of Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: do not allow yourself to press snooze. Yes, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have that moment, that minute, those few minutes right when
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  Speaker 1: it goes off, where you're like, do I want to
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  Speaker 1: do this? Do I want to do this? Do I
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  Speaker 1: want to do this? The answer is yes, you want
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  Speaker 1: to do it, and if you start moving sooner, the
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  Speaker 1: less doubt you're going to have in that decision. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to think about that moment when you're done with
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  Speaker 1: your entire morning routine and you're feeling really stellar and
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  Speaker 1: you're really happy that you did it, When you are
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  Speaker 1: like laying horizontal in your bed and it's comfortable and
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  Speaker 1: it's warm, and it is like free of like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of chaos, right, it's hard to think about that moment.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to think about that finish line. But if
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  Speaker 1: you resist the snooze and make a move, you will
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  Speaker 1: be nine times out of ten more likely not to
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  Speaker 1: get back into your bed and go back to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: So resist the snooze button. Tip number five. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure we're on five here, we are, okay? Tip number
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  Speaker 1: five resist the scroll. Trust me, nothing good comes from
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  Speaker 1: picking up your phone first thing in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: sitting there and scrolling for twenty to thirty minutes. There
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  Speaker 1: are so many better ways to use your time that
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  Speaker 1: will set you up for much better success, feelings, vibes,
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  Speaker 1: you name it. This is exactly where phone placement can
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  Speaker 1: come in the clutch. If you are just like easily
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  Speaker 1: reaching over to get your phone, you're turning off your alarm.
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  Speaker 1: You're lying in bed, your phone is in your hand.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be very tempting to lay there and
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  Speaker 1: just like investigate the things for a while. But if
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  Speaker 1: you have to get up to turn your alarm off,
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  Speaker 1: you're already standing. You can really see quickly if anything
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  Speaker 1: like a fire is happening on your cell phone, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak, and then you can put it back down.
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  Speaker 1: The great thing about the morning, like I said at
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  Speaker 1: the top of this episode, is that the morning is
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  Speaker 1: yours for the taking. You don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: the other things that are going on in the world
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  Speaker 1: at that very moment. Because this time it is yours,
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  Speaker 1: it is for you. So in this time, instead of
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  Speaker 1: using it to further drain yourself, take it as your
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to give back to you. That is the purpose.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that is why you hope or strive to
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  Speaker 1: be a morning person to get an extra thirty to
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  Speaker 1: sixty minutes of phone time in your day. Tip number six.
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  Speaker 1: Fill your morning with things that make you excited. Your
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  Speaker 1: morning routine should be unique to you. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to execute your morning routine in a way that you
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  Speaker 1: see someone else do on Instagram or TikTok. If you
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  Speaker 1: find that journaling is something that really resonates with you,
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  Speaker 1: incorporate journaling into your morning routine, and incorporate journaling in
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  Speaker 1: a way that feels really true to who you are
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  Speaker 1: into your morning routine. So maybe it's writing one page
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  Speaker 1: in a highlight at the end of that page of
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  Speaker 1: something good that happened to you in the last twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hours that's my current jam. Maybe it's using a
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  Speaker 1: five minute journal or a one line a day journal,
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  Speaker 1: so many different options to make something like that fit
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  Speaker 1: into your groove. Also, I mean, if journaling is not
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  Speaker 1: your thing, the meditation is your thing, maybe you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a person that works out first thing in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. Whatever habit that really feels like it calls
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  Speaker 1: to you, right, that's what you want to put together
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  Speaker 1: in your ideal mourning. Because if you're just doing something
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  Speaker 1: again since you see someone else doing it and you
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  Speaker 1: think that it could be good for you, Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: you try it, cool, but if it doesn't resonate with you,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to stick with that habit. You want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure again, if you're getting up early in
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  Speaker 1: the morning for trying to take advantage of this time,
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  Speaker 1: that you are doing things that make you feel excited,
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  Speaker 1: that make you feel invigorated to tackle your day. On
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  Speaker 1: this note, I want to make sure that I reiterate
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  Speaker 1: that if you want to be a morning workout person,
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  Speaker 1: the best way that you're going to stick with that
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  Speaker 1: habit is by figuring out what type of sweat makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel really truly good and happy and that you
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  Speaker 1: look forward to. For me, it's no secret that I
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  Speaker 1: am a huge runner, but there are days that I'm
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  Speaker 1: craving something else and I listen to my body and
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  Speaker 1: what I am craving and I go with that. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: your secret to actually sticking with a morning exercise routine
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  Speaker 1: is finding some accountability, whether that is virtually or going
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  Speaker 1: to the same studio, or simply asking a friend to
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  Speaker 1: be your workout buddy and check in with you or
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  Speaker 1: check in with each other after that sweat is done.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, when you have someone else waiting for you
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  Speaker 1: or looking to speak to you or wrap with you
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  Speaker 1: about what is going on in your life, in your morning,
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  Speaker 1: in your sweat, it's gonna make you more likely to
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  Speaker 1: actually show up and get the thing done. And my
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  Speaker 1: last tip for you today when it comes to taking
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  Speaker 1: full advantage of your morning routine and becoming a morning person,
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  Speaker 1: is making sure that you shift your mindset. If you
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  Speaker 1: keep on telling yourself I am not a morning person.
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  Speaker 1: I am not a morning person, well guess what you're
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  Speaker 1: putting that energy into the world. Instead, say to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: I can do this, I can handle more. I can
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  Speaker 1: be a morning person. You don't need to lie to
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  Speaker 1: yourself and be like I am the most excited morning person. Ever.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work like that. It doesn't work like that,
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  Speaker 1: but you can be realistic that you have opportunity in
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  Speaker 1: the early hours of the day, and that you are
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  Speaker 1: willing and excited to try to take advantage of them,
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  Speaker 1: saying something like the morning can be good for me,
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  Speaker 1: saying something like these new habits will really serve me,
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  Speaker 1: setting positive framework, having a positive mindset around again, a
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  Speaker 1: routine that will be really good for you. If you
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  Speaker 1: get it nailed down, Trust me, you will not regret
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  Speaker 1: it again. A lot of takeaways here, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm helping all of you. So
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  Speaker 1: if you do have more questions about mornings about developing
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  Speaker 1: a morning routine, I am all ears. You can leave
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  Speaker 1: a voice message for me and ask a question at
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  Speaker 1: any time by clicking the link in the show notes
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  Speaker 1: that prompts you to do so. Like I said, remember,
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  Speaker 1: being a stellar morning person starts the night before, but
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  Speaker 1: sticking with a morning routine means incorporating activities and habits
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  Speaker 1: that fill you up and make you feel excited. That's
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  Speaker 1: it for this week, Another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys
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  Speaker 1: next time.