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Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast Podcast. I'm your host Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. I put out episodes four times a week to help you learn and grow and improve yourself. So if that's something that you want to do, hit that subscribe button. Today I'm going to be talking about why you should forget motivation and why you should just rely on these eight boring habits that I'm going to be teaching you. Because if you're still waiting to feel like it before you change your life, you are going to be waiting forever. Motivation is not coming and it is not something that you want to rely on to save you. No one is going to come and give you clarity or confidence or discipline to take action. So in reality, you don't need a podcast episode today that hypes you up and motivates you. What you need is one that hands you a step by step system that you can take action on. A boring, repeatable, unsexy system that works even when you don't want to. In these eight habits, they'll change your life starting from the moment that you wake up. And they're built to help you make success autopilot for you. Let's dive into it. Let's talk about why I actually hate the word motivation and why motivation fails. Okay, motivation is an emotion. And I think too many people are trying to rely on motivation before they do anything in their life. And the problem is you can't rely on an emotion because emotions are temporary. If you rely on motivation to start, you're going to sometimes start, but most of the time you won't. And if you do that, you'll rarely get anything done. But if you rely on action and then momentum, you're actually building forward energy that will self sustain. And studies actually show this as well. There's a study done in 2009 in the European Journal of Social Psychology that found it takes about 66 days for a behavior to become an automatic habit in your brain, not because of motivation, but because of your consistent action and repetition. So you don't need to feel good or motivated to get going. You don't need to believe in yourself to get going. You don't need to believe in yourself at all to take action. Action does not require belief, but getting going and actually taking that action is what starts to make you feel good. Progress equals happiness, as Tony Robbins always says. And action, once you do it will turn into momentum, which will then make you feel more motivated down the line. And so let's go over your new system. Okay. These are the eight boring habits that are going to build real momentum in your life. Number one is to start with a fixed wake up time. And what you're going to notice is I actually went step by step from the moment that you wake up in the order that I would go for if I was you. Okay. And the first one is to start with a fixed wake up time. Even on the weekends? Even on the weekends. Okay. Consistent wake up time regulates your sleep cycles and it will boost your morning energy if you do this. So I would recommend that you pick a realistic time to start. You know, even like 7am is fine. Like if you go to bed and kind of late and you're trying to move your, your morning wake up time a little bit earlier. Like don't shoot for 4am right out of the gates unless you have to. The point here is to try to start being consistent with the time and then stay consistent. So if you normally wake up at 9am, don't immediately go to 5am you can give yourself some time to start moving that time back for 15 minutes. So every 15 minutes you move it back a little bit further every few days until you land on the time that you eventually want to consistently wake up at. And so discipline will actually start the moment that you wake up, not when your Motivation kicks in. So that's the first one. The second thing is to make your bed every morning. I used to think that this was stupid until I started doing it. Like, I was like, I don't want to make my bed. It doesn't make any sense. I don't spend any time inside of my room. I'm going to get back in the bed a little bit later. It's not a big deal. But what I realized is that it starts your day with a win. Like, it builds a sense of control and order, and it gives you a win right in the morning. And it, like, basically signals to your brain, hey, we're in motion now. Like, your brain. We're not. You're not in control. I'm in control. We're going to do this one thing. And this is how you start to build confidence in yourself. Not by reading a book on confidence or by meditating or mantras about being confident. You become confident when you start your day by finishing something. And that builds trust within yourself. And that's how you build confidence within yourself, is by doing what you say you're going to do. And so this quick act that could take 30 seconds can have you start building confidence within yourself and start momentum for your day. And so my goal for you here is not to overthink it. Like, don't try to make the most perfect bed that's ever existed. Just, like, pull the sheets tight, fluff the pillow, and go make it look a little bit better. But even if it's just like a tiny bit messy, it is not the aesthetic of what it looks like that matters. It's the act of you actually did something that you wanted to do first thing in the morning. And then what I would recommend at that point in time is then pair it with a mantra or with some sort of affirmation. Talk out loud to yourself. Say something like, one thing, done. Let's keep going. Or you can say something as soon as you get it done. Say, I'm a person who follows through, and you're starting to take this behavior of taking action and following through and pair it with an identity of who you're building yourself into and what you want yourself to believe about yourself. When you look at motivation, you don't need motivation to make your bed. You just need two hands and 30 seconds. And so that's number two, just make your bed real quick. The third thing that I would do if I were you, as soon as you wake up in the morning after you get done with the bed, is drink a Full glass of water. And so the reason why is because you lose up to a liter of water overnight just by breathing and sweating. Most people don't realize that the majority of their problems in their life could actually be fixed if they just drank more water. Like, most people don't realize that they're just dehydrated all day long. They just drink sodas and coffee and, you know, sugar water with a whole bunch of crap in it. Like your body is made up of 60% water. In your brain is 73% water. So even if you're slightly dehydrated, as little as 1 to 2%, it can affect your focus, which makes you feel a little bit more all over the place. It affects your mood, it affects your memory, it affects your energy. And that's why you can feel really fatigued and not realize that you're fatigued and foggy and irritable and tired and all of that because you're actually dehydrated, not because there's something wrong with you. It's because you can't get yourself to just drink the thing that we are mostly made out of. And so hydration improves focus, mood and energy. So here's what I would recommend. Just to make it easy on yourself, keep about a 12 to 16 ounce bottle or cup right next to your sink. So as soon as you get done brushing your teeth, because I hope you brush your teeth in the morning, you just drink that thing and you're done and you did the thing that you needed to do. Now you've got even more momentum on your side. If you want to make it even better, add a pinch of sea salt and some lemon so you get some bonus minerals in there. And so what I want you to realize is for a lot of people listening, your body isn't actually tired. It's that you're thirsty and you think you're tired. So now you're drinking coffee and coffee is making you more dehydrated. And so just please drink more water. Most of you guys out there are like, yeah, I know I should be drinking more water. Just do it. So that's number three. Number four, the next thing you want to do is you're going to want to get sun on your face, your skin and your eyes within the first 30 minutes of waking up. The sooner the better. And this is before coffee, this before looking at your phone. Go outside, let the sun hit your face. Your brain is literally wired to need sun. I don't understand why so many people try to avoid the sun. Like Obviously you don't want to be in the sun for five hours in the middle of the day in the middle of the summer, but morning sunlight is the on switch for your brain and body. Andrew Huberman talks about this all of the time. Is a couple things that it does that's important is it triggers a cortisol pulse in a good way in your body and this boosts your energy, it boosts your mood and it boosts your focus. It also starts your melatonin countdown clock and so it makes it easier to fall asleep at this moment when you start to get more Sun 14 to 16 hours later. Another thing it does is it boosts your dopamine so it increases your motivation and combats low mood. And we will be right back.