 Nobody wants to take a cold shower cold showers are not fun listening to a podcast. This is a pretty good one I would recommend this one don't have caffeine for an hour after waking up. Some of you guys are pulling stuff I don't know if I could do that Today we're gonna talk about how to build the perfect morning routine for you Because there's a lot of books and videos out there that you could watch they could tell you exactly how to build the quote-unquote Perfect morning routine, but the perfect morning routine is what will work best for you And so that's what we are going to talk about today One of the biggest things that I find that make it easiest to create a great morning routine No matter who you are is this number one you have to plan ahead You have to think about what's going to happen the next day and what you need the next day the night before And what I always say is how can I make it easier on myself with everything that I do whether it's work Whether it's traveling whatever it is even morning routines How can I make this easier on myself and also how can I be excited about it? Because let's be real when you're inside of your warm bed and your alarm clock goes off The last thing that you want to do is get up and go do something you'd rather stay inside of your bed But if you have a morning routine that you've designed that excites you you're much more likely to get out of bed And that brings us to the next point that's very important as well is put your alarm clock On the other side of the room or preferably in another room It could be in your closet It could be in your bathroom put it somewhere where you have to physically get up and Go turn it off and what I recommend is don't even use your phone because I recommend staying away from your phone As long as you possibly can go by on Amazon or whatever This is you need to do a $10 a $20 alarm clock and use that as the alarm that wakes you up So that therefore you don't see all the text messages you missed the emails you missed the Facebook messages the notifications all of those things The first thing in the morning as soon as you turn off your alarm So what I would say is make sure that you buy an alarm clock and put that alarm clock in the other room And then as I said stay away from your phone as long as you possibly can if you've been following this podcast for a while You know I always recommend in the mornings Stay away from your phone as long as you possibly can because I always say there's Rob before the phone There's Rob after the phone and I find that my creative mind in my mind that wants to learn and grow and read and meditate is much more Prone to be able to do those things in the morning before I look at the phone when I look at my phone And I think about a business and stuff that has to be done and videos need to be made and people They need to be to talk to my brain goes away from wanting to meditate and wanting to journal and wanting to read And do all of those things so I recommend before you dive in to your actual morning routine Look at your phone Don't look at your phone But keep it as long as possible before you look at your phone It could be 30 minutes to be 45 an hour two hours However long your morning routine is which then brings us to the next point How much time do you have is what you really need to figure out if you have? 20 minutes for yourself. That's still okay. Don't think that you have to spend an hour or two hours on yourself if you can Beautiful that's amazing to spend more time on yourself But you could even do a morning routine just in as short as 20 minutes 15 minutes if you really really wanted to and so what you want to think about is is how much time do you actually have for yourself? Think about that. Is it 30 minutes? Is it an hour? And once you know how much time you have then you can start to put these pieces in place that we're going to talk about right now and What I always say is as I said a few minutes goes make it as easy as possible so if part of your morning routine is You know to work out well then right next to your alarm clock Why not have your workout clothes right there? Have them folded have your shoes have everything so if let's say if you you wake up You go downstairs and then you go for a run and that's part of your morning routine Why not have right next to your alarm a t-shirt some shorts Underwear socks and shoes right there So all you have to do is hit the alarm put that on and then you've got no excuses because you're not going to go back To hopefully you're not going to go back to bed with your running gear on and your running shoes So have everything out for you to make it as easy as possible if you want to journal every single morning Have your journal out if you want to plan in the morning Have your planner out have everything that you need set up the night before so that when you wake up You don't even have to think you can just immediately go into it now The most important thing to do as soon as you wake up in the morning is this though is to drink water If you want to know what it what's you know proven I guess you could say to be the best that really helps people the most is water with lemon and sea salt It's it balances the body's pH It's more hydrating than normal water when you put salt and lemon in it And the average person loses about a pound of water every single night just from breathing They lose a pound of water. So you're already waking up Dehydrated so the first thing you should do is to be able to do that It also helps you there to adjust and it helps with your boosting your immune system People just don't drink enough water period So the most dehydrated that you usually are is as soon as you wake up in the morning So the first thing you should do go down drink a glass of water now The rest of these things I'm going to give you all tips you can pick and choose whatever you like If the Sun is already up It has been proven that it actually helps the human wake up and stop producing Melatonin if you go outside and look at the blue in the sky Don't look at the Sun but look in the blue in the sky. This is the reason why You know if you see people that wear at night when they will go watch TV or they're on their computer night They have blue light glasses blue blockers is because the blue that's actually in a screen or that's in lights Actually tells your body to stay awake. And so when you wake up in the morning and you go look at the actual Sky that blue that's in the sky actually tells your brain to stop making melatonin Which is what makes you fall asleep? And so you can have water you can go outside you can look at the blue inside of the sky And a big tip that I'll give you even though it's really hard to do That helps is don't have caffeine for an hour after waking up now. Some of you guys are like holy crap I don't know if I could do that try it give it a shot What they've actually found is that caffeine helps you more if you wait an hour until after you buy is woken up after you Start your digestion after you've had your water all of that stuff Another tip that I'll give you a round coffee is if you're wanting to ever switch off of coffee I used to drink a lot of coffee and everyone knew that I was obsessed with coffee I don't really drink much coffee at all anymore and the reason why is because I made the transition from coffee to Yerba mate I've made episodes on in the past where I talk about it. Yerba mate is Y E R B a space MATE Yerba mate and the reason why is because number one When you have coffee, there's a huge spike and then it just immediately drops, you know, your energy can start to drop pretty quickly That's why they say that there's the actual spike and then drop when you have coffee and that can happen within, you know 30 minutes to 45 minutes and then you're like, oh, I need another cup of coffee Yerba mate There's a spike and then it slowly dies off over about three to five hours So it actually stays in your system better The other thing is that it's actually instead of dehydrating like coffee it is it's actually hydrating for you And it's also considered one of the most nutritious plants that's on the planet So you get the oh and you also have as much caffeine as a cup of coffee So you have as much caffeine as a cup of coffee It is more nutritious and there's no massive drop and the thing that I always say is if you want to take my recipe I always have Yerba mate with stevia with cinnamon and with oat milk and I Recommended to everybody. It's just way better to drink in the morning I recommend drinking tea versus drinking coffee if you're ever wanting to make the switch Yerba mate is definitely the way to do it. Hey, if you're enjoying this video Do me a favor and hit that like button down below It helps with the YouTube algorithm so that more people can see this message because it helps us get it out organically So hit that like button and I appreciate you Other things that you could do if you've ever read the book The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod How's one of my friends so I'll be able to you know Tell you guys the the ways that you can take his book and put it into your life He says this I think of this acronym savers S-A-V-E-R-S to put into your morning routine. So the book's called The Miracle Morning. I absolutely recommend it S-A-V-E-R-S the acronym These are all different pieces that you can take and decide do I want this in my morning routine? Do I like this? Do I not like this? Is this something that could benefit me or is this something? I don't really need to worry about this point savers the first S stands for silence, which would be sitting in silence Meditating you could just stare at the wall stare at a view whatever it is that you want to do But sitting in silence and just allowing your subconscious to kind of come through It's one of the reasons why people have the best ideas when they're driving or when they're inside of the shower is because their brain Is not constantly being you know, there's no one talking to them. There's no internet that they're scrolling through There's no Facebook or Instagram. There's no music that they're listening to so when you sit in silence Usually that's when you have your deepest thoughts and usually your best ideas come from that So it could be silence that you're sitting in or it could be meditation and you decide how long you want to do This work be five minutes to be ten to be twenty minutes the first S in the acronym saver stands for silence Then you have a a stands for affirmations affirmations are just words Positive affirmation positive words that you say to yourself. They usually start with I am I am blank. So Usually what you're trying to do is you're trying to say to yourself There's three things that I say that you want to really make sure that you have in order to create a perfect Affirmation number one is it needs to be present tense number two It needs to be empowering number three It needs to be true and so an example of if you watch the secret if you've ever read the book the secret It's beautiful and stuff, but it's a little bit too lofty for some people if sitting around and saying Affirmations like money is flowing to me abundantly from all areas of the universe, right? It's a little bit too much like for me my BS meter goes Yeah, but I'm broke like if I was broke and I was sitting there going Oh, but money's flowing to me from all areas of the universe. I'd be like that's BS That's just bunch of crap So we're trying to take our conscious words and ingrain them into our subconscious And so if it's true if it's empowering and if it's present tense it helps And so instead of saying money is flowing freely to me from all areas of the universe You could say something like I'm working hard every day to make more money. I'm working hard every single day To make a hundred thousand dollars this year. Do you see the difference between those two affirmations? One of them seems a little bit too lofty for me personally, but the other one I'm like, yeah, I am working harder every day to make that first hundred thousand dollars And it's also empowering where I'm like hell. Yeah, I'm working towards making that hundred thousand dollars You know if I'm sick or if I have some sort of you know, let's say I have some sort of issues Then I'm gonna say I am healthy. I am healthy I'm trying to program into my subconscious that I am healthy and tell my body to heal itself And so affirmations is the second part of savers. That's SA V stands for visualization Waking up in the morning closing your eyes thinking about the future that you want whether it's the house the cars the clothes the business the Relationships the traveling whatever it is that you want because everybody wants something different What do you want your future to look like a year from today? What do you want it to look like five years from today? Can you sit down? And can you visualize every single morning the perfect future that you want? Because I'm not gonna go too deep into visualization There's a lot of proof of how neurologically it actually helps you bring that into your life But you're also programming the subconscious when you visualize you're sitting there and telling yourself okay, this is what I want this is what I'm going to get and Long story short, I'll tell you this you actually basically trick your brain into believing it's possible because the only thing that's holding us back from creating the life that we want is ourselves and So if you can trick your brain after months and months and months and months of visualization to not only believing It's possible, but knowing it's going to happen You can work much harder and stop holding yourself back from what it is that you're trying to create So the V stands for visualization E stands for exercise. This could be running. This could be walking your dog This could be yoga. This could be high intensity interval train This could be weightlifting whatever it is for you some form of exercise Is that something that you like? Is that something that you want to put into your morning routine? Think about it exercise R stands for read. This is a perfect time to read. There's not usually anybody up It's quiet. You can focus on the pages. Maybe you say I'm gonna read five pages every single morning Great, you don't have to read for two hours. Maybe say I'm gonna read ten pages every single morning If you say I'm gonna read ten pages every single morning You're gonna get through about a book a month Imagine how much different your life would be if you got through one more book every single month if you went through 12 books over the Next year and there were books that would really impact your life. How much better would you be? 365 days from today So that's the R and the last S stands for scribe Which means journaling because you know the J wouldn't have made sense and savers wouldn't be saver J That would make no sense. So savers scribe journaling writing down in in actually Asking yourself questions and making yourself answer them. What is it that I want in my life? Where do I want to be 365 days from today? Where am I going to find my perfect spouse? Where do I what what type of father do I want to be or mother do I want to be for my children? What type of husband or wife do I want to be a type of brother sister? Do I want to be how do I want to take care of my parents and why is it that I'm working so hard? What is my end goal? What is my why in life? What is it that makes me excited? What is my passion you ask yourself these questions the questions that you deeply want to know and then force yourself to answer them That's what journaling is most people think that journaling is sitting down and saying dear diary today I did this this this or today. I'm going to do this this this Journaling is not that journaling at simplest form asking yourself a question Forcing yourself to answer it so asking yourself the deep questions that you truly want to answer and then forcing yourself to answer it So let me go over that one more time savers silence affirmations visualization Exercise reading Scribing aka journaling a couple extra things that I will add in that would really help you out that I know I've Recommended to a lot of people and I've there's been lots of studies that help them as well For this next one, even though it's hard is taking a cold shower every single morning I'm not going to spend this podcast talking about how amazing a cold shower is for you Just Google Benefits of a cold shower read through it and if that doesn't sell you on it I don't know what will but you know the one thing that I like most about a cold shower besides all of the Benefits of your body and your health and all of that is the mental benefit of it Nobody wants to take a cold shower cold showers are not fun I don't enjoy them, but there's a little voice inside of your head that says don't take that cold shower Don't do it. Nobody will know if you don't take that cold shower Take the warm shower feels so much better that little voice is also the little voice That's holding you back from all of your hope streams desires and the life that you want so if you can wake up in the morning and conquer that little voice every single morning by taking that cold shower when you Don't want to take that cold shower you are building resilience of Doing what it is that you don't want to do but know you need to do to get to wherever is that you want to get to because ultimately If you want the life that you want you're gonna have to push yourself you're good There's gonna be Roblox. There's gonna be barriers You're gonna have to have mental fortitude to push through every single time those things pop up and so for you It'd be very important to start to it's just like going to the mental gym when you go to a gym And you lift weight you lift heavier and heavier weight So if you know that there's that little voice inside of your head that says you're stupid you're ugly You're not good enough. You're not smart enough. You're not gonna be able to start a successful business Why do you think that you're worth it? You're never gonna make enough money Whatever does that little voice in your head? That's whatever it says in your head if you can wake up and force yourself to conquer that little voice every single morning with a cold shower and then when the You're in the cold shower and the little voice says all right, you're done get out You know like screw you I'm gonna stand for an extra minute You are building the mental fortitude to push yourself past the point of what is comfortable and not listening to that little voice So not only does it have incredible Health benefits of cold showers. I actually love the mental benefit of the cold shower of doing what you don't want to do So that's another thing that you can add to your morning routine Another thing you can add to your morning routine is listening to a podcast. This is a pretty good one I would recommend this one, but there's other great podcasts that you can listen to every single morning where there's People that are interviewed that are inspiring that teach you it's about growth The morning routine is a time for growth for you to focus on yourself and for you to grow And then another thing that I recommend is this plan your day take 10 minutes Take five minutes because a lot of people go into their day in Reaction mode they just go into the day and just things are happening and things are happening and things are happening And they're trying to put out fires That's reaction mode if you take 10 minutes and look at your day and start to plan it out and go into it proactively You start to realize that you get a lot more done You're much more productive throughout the day You're much more efficient and at the end of the day you feel like you got a lot of stuff done compared to if you just Go into the day and just try to figure it out So I recommend that and the importance of a morning routine more than anything else is For you to have you time Right a lot of people are to listen this you have children you have people that need you have people that are relying on you Not often enough do you always get the you time that you need to to grow yourself? But you are the most important person in your life Nobody else is more important in your life than you It but the better that you are the better that you can serve everyone else around you your children your family Your spouse your everyone that's around you the better that you are the better that they are if you don't work on yourself Then they're missing out as much as you're missing out from you not working on yourself It's like they say when the plane's going down put the oxygen yourself first and then put it on your kids Because if you try to put on your kids and you pass out and then kids pass out Don't help anybody when you put it on yourself then you can help other people that are around you This is the same equivalent of waking up earlier so that you can have you time work on yourself Because when you work on yourself you make every other person around you's life better Hey, thanks so much for watching this video if you want to learn even more about master your mind Click right here and watch this video as well inhale Reprogram who you are just have no expectation. There's a pretty good chance. You might cry out of happiness You might go that makes no sense to me exhale