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I'm bringing this up now because the fact of the matter is, is that I am just functioning at a higher level. Unequivocally, undoubtedly, when I am doing my longer, more extended morning routine, I am functioning at a higher level. I actually feel like significantly better, I would say I feel on average, and I've been thinking about this, anywhere from 30 to 40% better in the morning after doing all those things than just doing my non negotiables. What up y'? All, Mike Chernow here, Monday moment. Very excited to talk to you guys about something that I feels important to mention to you all. Over the last three to four months I have taken a little bit of a break from my morning routine that I did for, I don't know, two to three years maybe, which was pretty extensive, structured lots of steps and I shortened that routine because I just a. It was just a season that I was in and I wanted to shorten the routine. I was traveling a lot and I also just wanted to see what it felt like to just, you know, stick with my non negotiables. And my non negotiables are basically wake up, smile, go downstairs, wash my face, myself. My skincare routine, my oral care skincare is I use Caldera Lab. I've been using Caldera lab for a long ass time. I love their products. And I wash my face, I use an eye cream and I use a moisturizer. It's pretty simple. For my oral care, I brush my teeth with an electric toothbrush, I floss my teeth, I tongue scrape and I use an oral mouthwash. And then I, I take a piss and then I get on my knees and I pray. I have a prayer that I say every single morning. I do my push ups, I do some stretches and then I walk out of the bathroom and I hydrate with a large 30 ounce jar of water with some electrolytes and IM8. I love IM8. IM8 is my sort of all in one daily 92 ingredient powdered supplement that I've been using now for the last three to four months. I love the, I love the flavor of imate. It's got all the things that I love in it that I know kind of COVID all the bases from prebiotic, probiotic, they actually have postbiotic, they have CoQ10. Anyway, there's a lot of stuff in imitate that I love. So I put that into my water, I shake it up and I drink that. And that's been my morning routine. Pretty simple, pretty straightforward. I could take that with me on the Road, wherever I am, that is my non negotiable morning routine. And I stuck to that routine for about three to four months. About two weeks ago I said, you know what, I want to get back to my more extended ideal morning routine. The routine that I felt was actually a little bit too much for me three or four months ago, after a long period of time, I was like, all right, maybe this is a little too much. Like let me take a break from it. And so what that routine is is I wake up, I smile, I go downstairs, I skincare, oral care, prayers, push ups, stretches. Then I go into the guest room, which is connected to our bathroom downstairs. I use the bathroom downstairs because my wife hates when I use our bathroom in our bedroom when I do my morning stuff because it wakes her up. And I get up at around 5:15. So in respect to her, I don't do that. I go downstairs, use the bathroom in the bedroom that is connected to that bathroom though is my red light panel. I sit in front of the red light for 15 minutes and I meditate. And then after I do that, I come out into the kitchen. That's when I hydrate, I bring that big jar of water, I pound that thing and then I refill it and I go into the infrared sauna. Infrared sauna is at about 175 degrees. And I sit in there and read for about 20 to 30 minutes, depending on what time I get in there. And then right when I'm done with that, I walk across the garage and I go sit in the cold plunge at about 40 degrees. I sit in there anywhere from three to five minutes. Tend to just do 30 long, slow breaths in there. Sometimes it takes a little longer, sometimes it takes a little shorter, depending on how, how long and slow breaths are. And after I do that, I open up the garage door. Specifically in the warmer weather. I walk outside. The sun is up at that point, typically because it's in the summertime, it's been in the summertime, and I take sun in my eyes, I try to get my feet in the grass. And then I start my day walk into the house and my wife and kids are just getting up. Here's what I want to tell you. And this is why I walked you through those two different morning routines. You know, this is a Creatures of Habit podcast. It's not abnormal to be hearing stuff about morning routine from me. I'm the founder of Creatures of Habit. I believe in habit. I'm bringing this up now because the fact of the matter is, is that I am just functioning at a higher level. Unequivocally, undoubtedly when I am doing my longer, more extended morning routine, I am functioning at a higher level. I actually feel like significantly better. I would say I feel on average, and I've been thinking about this anywhere from 30 to 40% better in the morning after doing all those things than just doing my non negotiables. That is significant. That is enough for me to wanna do a whole podcast and talk to you about it. I have truly enjoyed getting back to my more long, extended morning routine. Now what I will say is I have missed a few days since I've recommitted to the longer one. I, you know, I'm in the city right now. I'm not upstate. So I am, I like pissed. No, I'm not pissed if I don't get to it. No, I'm not putting pressure on myself to go find a sauna and a cold plunge and all that shit. But I am telling you that for me, for like who I the kind of person I am, I actually am functioning far better when I do all those things in the morning. And I just wanted to share that. I think those things in that order really work for me. I walked through them all. By all means, you know, DM me if you have questions about, you know what, like any specific questions about that morning routine. Maybe I will write that morning routine out for people in next week's Brain Dump or this week's Brain Dump. If you don't listen to the Brain Dump, you should sign up for it. It's a great newsletter. I write a newsletter to the Creatures of Habit community every Friday. It is a letter that I personally write. I write it throughout the week and we send it out on Fridays, Friday mornings and it covers all things from experiences that I've had over the last week. It covers maybe I'll talk about fitness, maybe a new fitness program that I'm on that I love that I want to share with you some nutritional things that I'm focused on. Stuff with my wife, stuff with my kids, stuff with business, just life in general. It is called the Brain Dump. It is truly a free flow way for me to communicate, connect with and enjoy the community that we've built at Creatures of Habits. So boom, that was this week's Monday moment. I hope you guys have the best week ever. If you're listening to this on a Monday, have the best week ever. Share the podcast, post the podcast, subscribe, give us a five star rating and a review. All right, that's enough for me. Until the next one. Y' all have a great week. Peace.