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You're listening to the Travis Makes Money podcast, presented by GoHighLevel.com for a free 30 day trial of the best all in one digital marketing software tool on the planet, just go to gohighlevel.com travis. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the show. Today it is just me, you, and the mic, and we're talking a little bit about effective morning routines. Now, before we get into this, I want to start off with this caveat because when I first got into the space, I read this book called Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. And it's a good book. Don't get me wrong. I'm not here to talk crap on Hal or any of the work that he's done because he's helped a lot of people change their lives and the way that they live. However, I feel like when I first got started with this, I just, I went overboard on the morning routine because I, I was look, well, you know, success leaves clues and stuff like that. So you look at Tony Robbins and you look at Hal Elrod and you look at all these other people and you look at how extensive their morning routines are and you start feeling like a piece of crap because you're like, oh, well, I'm not doing any of those things. So then the next day you're like, all right, I'm gonna change it now. And then you come up with a laundry list of items and you have 12 things in your morning routine checklist. And then it takes four hours to complete it the first day. And you're exhausted by the time you're done. And then by the time you actually try to get into work and, and being productive, it becomes much more difficult because you spend so much time going through all these checklists. And then, and then what happened was, you know, day two, oh, I, I have this appointment here that I, I whatever, a doctor's appointment or something like that. So I have to skip these parts of my morning routine. But then I started whenever I would skip certain things, then I started feeling bad about myself because it was like, oh, I'm starting the day off bad because I didn't do all the things that I told myself that I was going to do and now I'm not doing them. And now I feel less productive because I feel worse about myself because I didn't check off these arbitrary boxes that somebody said worked for them, therefore it should work for me type of a thing. So to start this conversation off, don't feel like you have to have this crazy four hour long morning routine. In fact, I would highly recommend you do not. And that I would say that it would actually be more detrimental to your day than it would be otherwise to not even have a morning routine. So there's definitely, there's definitely these, this balance that you want to create in your life. However, that being said, having an effective morning routine can be very helpful to put you into the right state as soon as you pick your head up off the pillow. Especially if you're like me. I'm. I'm not really a morning person. I am more of a night person in general. And I did find out from a few sleep doctors that this is something that actually is real. Because for a while I was like, I'm not sure I'm sold on the idea of night person morning person. Because there's been several times in my life where as a night person, I just disciplined myself to get up early. And I adjusted to that new routine just fine after a week or two of torture, getting up at 4 o' clock in the morning for a few months. So it always took me a little bit to settle into that routine. So I started doubting whether or not that was a real thing. But it actually is a real thing. There are night people, there are morning people. And if you're not a morning person, like I'm not, I, I tend to wake up almost in a bad mood the majority of the time. Like, I'm just upset that it's time to not be sleeping anymore. And so having some form of just like a state change as soon as open your eyes and start trying to tackle the day can be really helpful. Instead of just meandering out of bed and then already feeling like you're behind, and then you have this sort of anxious energy that you take into the first half of your day because you feel like you're constantly behind the whole time because you didn't get up in time to do all the things that you needed to do to change your state effectively. So having a morning routine is really good for helping you get into more of a productive flow for the day. My only advice on it is just like don't go overboard with it, because you definitely can go overboard with it. And then it starts to have the opposite effect. So here's a few elements that I've
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Played with, toyed with, tried out myself. And frankly, I'm trying to implement a few of these things back into my morning routine so that I can take advantage of the good parts with and sort of leave the bad parts behind. So, number one is hydrate. You dehydrate, you get dehydrated when you're sleeping and we lose, we lose a lot of fluids while we're sleeping. So it'd be really helpful. First thing, you wake up to have some form of electrolytes and, and water. If you, if you just have like reverse osmosis water, you're not going to feel the same effect because there's no minerals in there to properly hydrate your body and give you the electrolytes that you missed out on from losing fluids. So if you, you know, want to get something that's like a supplement, I use lmnt. I know there's a bunch of different other electrolyte supplements you can take, like liquid IV and else. And I know there's a lot of health experts that are like, oh, LMNT is just expensive salt or whatever. It's like, okay, but I kind of like it and it's easy for me, so I'm just going to probably keep using it. But if you don't want to do that, you know, a little bit of Himalayan pink salt in your water and half a lemon. Just squeeze some lemon juice in there. You can get a lot of the electrolytes that you need. So hydrating is usually a good idea. First thing when you wake up, the next thing is sunlight. I actually just had a guy on the show who was talking about the free benefits that nature gives us that we are not properly taking advantage of. And sunlight was definitely one of those things. So he recommended, I believe it was 17 minutes of sunlight that gave you some sort of an, an edge, actually like a pretty good edge on productivity and brain function throughout the day. So, you know, as soon as you can, as soon as you open your eyes, try to get into some sunlight, get outside and, and sit there, you know, do something else productive while you're out there. Turn on some music, whatever it is, just try to get outside, maybe go for a walk or something like that. But sunlight can be really, really effective. It also helps set your circadian rhythm and give you better sleep when you hit the head on the pillow at night as well. So hydrate sunlight. Movement. Working out obviously is a really effective thing to have. I've tried to do this at night, is really difficult for me to get a good workout in at nighttime. Mainly because I think I'm maybe over over reliant on caffeine to help stimulate me to, to get myself put in some work and dispense some justice, so to speak on the weights at the gym. But yeah, I, I've not been able to quite figure out how to make sure I have an effective workout at night. Cause I don't want to take caffeine before my night workout or else I'm just gonna be up all night, so. And it's gonna affect my sleep negatively. And I've also read that working out like you don't wanna have an intense workout, I think within four hours of going to bed because it can mess up your ability to get into deep sleep quicker. So I like doing it in the morning and it's one of the things that I've stuck to for the last few years is like this is what I do before I do anything else. It's either it's either walking outside for a couple miles or it's most days it's just I go to the gym and I do my thing and then I come back home. So hydration, sunlight, movement, honestly those things. And by the way, this does not. Don't feel like you have to become a gym rat in order to get the movement in right. So if you, if you are not the same way that I am and you don't, you, you're not actively involved in a gym community and it feels weird for you to go work out still. It's just some sort of movement like do some, do some air squats and some push ups or do some jumping jacks or something like that. Jumping jacks in the sunlight can be really helpful in effect of just go outside and do 30 jumping jacks. Just do something to get your body moving a little bit before you just immediately throw caffeine into your mouth. Give your body a chance to do some things naturally for yourself, so hydrate Sunlight Movement don't check your phone, especially before you get the sunlight in your eyes. Your first light that you should see in the morning should not come from a screen, it should come from the sun. So don't check your phone immediately. Put that off as much as you can. I try to do it until after I'm home from the gym. A lot of times I don't actually get there, especially if I'm like antsy or excited about something. Like we posted something and it's going really well and I want to check
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You know, some days I don't have the discipline or mental fortitude to do it until after I get home from the gym. But I try to make sure that I don't just do it immediately, daily when I'm in bed. The only time I do it when I'm in bed is more just like you know, I have an appointment coming up and I may. I want to make sure that I'm there for that on time or something like that. But even then I try to check that the night before so that I don't feel like that when I wake up. I know what my morning schedule is going to be. So try not to touch your phone. Try not to. Try not to have the first light that you see in the day to be a screen then journaling Journaling has been helpful and effective for me. The first like you don't have to get super intense about it. I just like to write a couple things down that I'm grateful for and then maybe learned recently and then write down the tasks that I have for the day and then circle the one that's the most important task that I need to get done for the day. So journaling can be a really great way to get your thoughts out again. Don't use a screen. Don't journal on your phone. Use actual pen and paper. There's something about that. It's almost like A meditative practice to get. To get that and write it out. And for God's sakes, do not use AI to journal, okay? That's like the literal opposite of the reason to journal. It's not just to write something. It's to go through the practice of having to think about something and then write it down in a way that makes sense to you. So I have gained a lot of value from, like, pouring through old journals of mine and seeing my thought process at different points in my life. So I, I like the. I like the idea of journaling. So the probably best move for, in my opinion is like, okay, you need 15, 20 minutes of sunlight when you first get up. So just get up, walk outside, have a little seating area, sit down, grab a journal, and just write some things down. Here's what I'm grateful for. Here's what I'm thinking about today. Here's what's important. And then write down a couple of the things that you got to do, the things that you make sure that you do before you do anything else, or the things that you make sure you absolutely have to do before your head hits the pillow that night. Maybe rate how it was the day before. How productive or effective was I yesterday? What was something that I learned yesterday? Just get in the habit of just writing some things down. I don't think that you're real. You'll regret that. Next one is meditation. I've, I. I've tried this multiple times, and I've found it to be helpful and effective for sure. And I'm not here to argue against that point because the data shows that it is actually helpful and effective for a multitude of reasons. The only pushback that I would have on it is don't feel like your meditation practice has to fit within the box of what people tell you. Meditation should look like a meditative process. Like your journaling time could be a form of meditation. It's sort of just willing to be present, be alone with your thoughts, and allow yourself to feel grateful and to feel motivated to feel good about the day. So whatever that version looks like for you, meditation could be helpful. Ice baths is another one that a lot of people do. I've never done ice baths themselves. I did do cold showers for a long time for probably two, three years, where basically after my workout at the gym, I just. Every. Every shower I took was a cold shower. I will say it's very helpful for time management because if you're taking a cold shower, you're not really spending a bunch of time in the shower, you're trying to get out of there basically as quickly as you can. So cold, cold ice baths, you know, are one of those therapeutic things. And then the opposite of that, which is heat. So sitting in a sauna, I sit in the steam room at the gym basically every day after my workout. And then the last thing that I have down here is work. Sometimes you can get so caught up again in doing all these things that you just avoid the thing that you're actually needing to get done. Because it feels good to check off the fact that you meditated. It feels good to check off the fact that you did an ice bath. But some of those things are just built there into inside of your routine to help you avoid the task at hand. The number one thing that you know that you actually have to get work on, sometimes it can be just really effective to roll out of bed, skip all this other stuff and just start working. What's the number one thing I gotta do? Let me just do that first. Get it out of the way, eat the frog, so to speak, so that you can move on to the rest of your day. Now, like I said, these are just a bunch of things that I've seen people use in their morning routines. A bunch of things that I've experimented with and tested out over the years. But you, again, you do not want to have all of these things in your routine. I would start with one. Start with one thing like, hey, tomorrow morning I'm just going to get sunlight. That's all I'm going to focus on. Tomorrow morning I'm just going to meditate for 10 minutes. That's all I'm going to focus on. Tomorrow morning I'm going to journal about something I'm grateful for and write some things that I'm thinking about. That's all I'm going to do tomorrow morning. I'm just going to not touch my phone for the first hour of the day. That's my only thing that I'm going to not do tomorrow. Or I'm going to go to the gym, or I'm going to wake up at this specific time, whatever it is, start with one thing and preferably the one thing that makes it easier to add in other things. So for instance, if you don't have a time that you get up, maybe it's. It's that I'm gonna start getting up at 6am or whatever that time is going to be for you. But once you get up at that time and you start building that as a habit, it becomes a little bit easier to be like, okay, after I have it as a habit to get up at this time, then I will leave my running shoes out the night before so that the first thing I see when I wake up is my running shoes. And I'm just gonna put those on and go for a quick walk or a quick run or something like that. It's a little bit. My point is to. To thing and make that one thing the thing that makes other things easier. Once you've accomplished the first thing on the list and then go from there, just play with it, experiment with it a little bit. See what feels good to you, see what feels natural to you. See what allows you to. To. The entire goal here is not to check boxes. The entire goal is to set yourself up to be in a state that allows you to have a productive and positive day. So think about whatever those things are that you might find most helpful for you and test and play around with it. It and let me know how it goes. But that's it for this episode of the show. Thanks so much for tuning in. Catch you guys on the next one. Peace.