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1. Introduction: Welcome to the morning
routine for beginners class. My name is Armand Jodri, the founder of Armani Talks, a media company which
helps engineers and entrepreneurs improve their
communication skills. One of the best
times to win over your day is in the morning. Yet there's some confusion in regards to what to
do in the morning. The purpose of this class
is to, first of all, help you understand why so many high achievers
have a morning routine. I'm going to give you some
suggestions on when to wake up a mind altering
technique that you can do to build momentum
from the very get go. Plus this class is going to end with the final project
that will help you understand the importance of creating a morning
routine for your life. If you're ready and
excited for the class, I look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. Value of a Morning Routine: The morning routine is
very important because it sets the tone for the day.
Think about it like this. Imagine that you're
a public speaker and you're about to get
onstage the host. He's introducing
you, or better yet, he's barely introducing you. He's saying, oh, the
next speaker, oh, he's just a speaker speaker get onstage and now you get onstage. Do you really think
the audience is going to view you in the right light? Not really, but
if the host says, our next speaker is
a decorated speaker, has written many
award winning books. By the way, he is a master in the hard skills and the soft
skills and audience members. You guys should be pleased
that we were even able to get the speaker on the event. Please put your
hands together for the speaker At this point, the audience is going to think, my goodness, I can't wait. It's because the host has set the correct tone
for the speaker. Now imagine, imagine you're waking up super late in the day. You're dehydrated, you're filling yourself
up with all this coffee, making yourself even
more dehydrated. You're thinking
about going back to sleep because the
coffee isn't working. Do you really think
this is setting the right tone for the
day? Of course not. You are being like that
irresponsible host. But the opposite is also true. When you're capable of setting the right tone from
the very morning. It sets this tone
for the entire day. You feel as though the
momentum is on your side. Therefore, we want to have the morning routine because it's very similar to the host. Hyping up the speaker and
then introducing the speaker, it creates the right perception.
3. Ditch the Alarm: Just like how start the day is, how you finish the day. I would also like
to say how you end the night is how you start
off the next morning. This is where the plot twist
for this class happens. We're starting off our morning routine from the night before. Every now and then,
people are going to ask, well, when should I wake up? You're consistently going to hear different answers
in regards to this. Some people are
going to say 05:00 A.M. some people are going to say 07:00 A.M. Other people are going to say the afternoon. My advice is to see what
you're already doing in context to your life and see if you're
satisfied with it. Hypothetically speaking, let's say you're
someone who doesn't want to wake up in the afternoon anymore because you're thinking, man, when I wake up
in the afternoon, it feels like the day
is almost over. Okay. When do you want to wake up? Let's say you want to wake up at 07:00 A.M. From here on out, what you want to
do is you want to reverse engineer by
looking at the night before and you want
to toggle with different times when you fall
asleep the night before. That allows you to
wake up at 07:00 A.M. And here's the
most important part, without an alarm,
very important, let's say around 10:00 P.M.
you're going to sleep. And the next morning
without an alarm, you wake up at 05:30 A.M.
Then you repeat this. You wake up at 05:30 A.M. Again, when you slept at
a similar time. You're thinking, what
about 11:30 P.M. When will I wake up
then without an alarm? And this is when you're
getting closer to that 630 to 07:00 A.M. range. You may be asking why are you telling me to
not set an alarm? Here's one of the most
important things I found out in regards to the
morning routine. Having an alarm should
be an addition. It shouldn't be something
that you're reliant upon. This is something that
I didn't initially know when I used to be very
reliant on the alarm clock. What happened was
that it created a very negative perception in regards to the morning routine. It's as though I
was being forced. I was being shamed into doing this morning routine,
which by the way, be shamed every now and
then isn't the worst thing, especially when you're
factoring in self improvement. But when I ditched the alarm, and let's say I wanted to wake up at seven in the morning, I began to sleep
around 11:30 P.M. I set the alarm later on, but in the beginning stages, I didn't set the alarm, and still I was waking up exactly when I
wanted to wake up. That is when I felt good. That is when I felt ready. Deciding when you want
to wake up is one thing. But I believe if you remove
the alarm and you look at the night before and you
see when can I go to sleep, where I am going to immediately
wake up At this time, there's this different
tone that you have. The tone is now I'm doing
this because I want to. I'll set an alarm just
because I'm not perfect. Every now and then
I may oversleep, but for the most part, my body is now alerting me to
wake up at this time. This is an advice that you're never going to hear initially. Practice without the alarm,
but if you can do that, then you are going to build even more momentum for
your morning routine.
4. Get Hydrated: I'm going to give you
a life flaw right now. Everything is more
difficult when you're dehydrated, get hydrated. One thing that you
can easily miss out on is drinking your water. Not too many people say I
forgot to eat for the day. But plenty of people
say I forgot to drink water for the day
from the very get go. I recommend that you drink water that is incongruous
with your body. I'm not going to tell you
exactly how much water to drink because I don't
know your body type. But experiment with it
to a point where you're happy where after getting
this water intake, soon as you wake up, there's
this hydration that you're feeling and you're ready to tackle on the
rest of your day. Just because it's
easy to forget. Drinking our water is the
reason that we want to drink water from the very get go obviously brush your teeth
and do all of that stuff, but do not forget to
drink your water. Remember, everything is
more difficult when you're dehydrated but
everything becomes a lot easier when
you're hydrated.
5. Get Physical Activity In: After getting the water in, I recommend getting some
activity in as well. You feel much better when
your body is on your side. However you do, the activity
is really up to you. For me, I definitely need to
get my walks in every day. This is no longer a
routine, it's a ritual. After getting the walk in, there's more momentum
that we are building. Notice the theme
throughout this class. We're trying to build
as much momentum as we can from the very get go. Soon as we wake
up this momentum, it's done through tiny steps, drink water, wake up without an alarm, get
some activity in. You could make the
activity more intense. You could go to the gym, you could do pull ups,
push ups, et cetera. But getting that
activity in is that missing puzzle piece into the momentum aspect
that we are going for, see what type of
activity works for you. It could maybe be just walking around in your
own living facility, going to the gym, maybe doing
a little bit of running. But getting that activity
in aligns the mind and the body with the
breath from the very get go and you feel
much better for it.
6. Do the Hardest Task: One of my buddies used
to always complain about how difficult
it was to meditate. He told me, look, I know that meditation
is very good for me, but for some strange reason, I find it very annoying to do. This is annoying for me
because whenever I meditate, I feel so good afterwards. But getting myself to meditate
is the difficult part. And then I began to press them. I was asking him, well, when do you do it? He started to give me
different responses like well, sometimes at 02:00 P.M.
sometimes at 05:00 P.M. Sometimes I'm having a busy day, I'm supposed to do it at 07:00 P.M. but by the time
I'm back, I'm so tired. You know what it's like exactly. I know what it's like.
I was capable of giving him advice that would
change his life forever. I said, Would you consider
meditation a difficult activity for you to do He said, yeah, because I find
it difficult for me to even do it perfect. You have the activity now. What you need to do is do one to three of your most difficult activities
soon as you wake up. What he started to do
was he got meditation. And rather than saving it
for later parts of his day, he did it in the morning when he was able to
do it in the morning. I mean, he didn't have a clutter schedule or
anything like that. He was getting it done
from the very get go. He felt good because here's the thing with
the phrase dopamine. Whenever we hear the phrase
dopamine immediately, it creates a lot of
negative perceptions. We think of drugs, alcohol, or something in correlation
with the phrase dopamine. But here's a natural way for
you to unleash dopamine. Aka feel good, chemicals
in your brain. Rules, Not only rules, but accomplishment as well. If you compare rules
with accomplishments, now you're feeling very
good from the very get go. You may not even need coffee when my buddy was able
to get meditation, a difficult activity, and
give himself a rule to do it in the morning when he
accomplished meditation. Now he felt accomplished and he satisfied a rule,
unleash dopamine. I would recommend that
you find and identify whichever difficult
task that you have to do throughout the day and
then do it in the morning. This is a part of
your morning routine. I try it out for yourself.
7. Be Consistent: Rome was not built in a day and your morning routine is not going to be built
in a day either. One thing that I
would recommend is that you remain consistent and obviously experiment
but maintain some consistency
with the basics. I wake up consistently, I get your water and take in, get some activity in, and do one to three of
your hardest tasks from the very
beginning of the day. As you begin to build this
series of consistencies, the easier that
it's going to get.
8. Bonus Tip: I'm going to give
you a bonus tip in regards to your
morning routine. This bonus tip is
purely optional. But I would recommend that you wake up when the sun is not up yet whenever you
wake up super early. Personally, for me at least and for many high performers
that I've met, waking up super early when
the sun is not up allows you to build a very
emotional connection with the morning routine. It no longer is just a routine
which sounds very boring. It's a ritual because when the sun is still
down and you are up, there feels as though there's some secret between
you and the universe. And this engages
the narrative mind. In addition to that, getting a lot of your tasks done from the very beginning of the day allows you to feel productive. It allows you to feel as though you're a part of
a very rare club. Because by the time the sun gets up and now most people
are getting up, they come to you and
they ask you, hey, you're just waking up to
right and you're like, yeah, of course I am. That's what you want
to think. But do they know you got through
so much of your work from the very
beginning of the day and now you're feeling more motivated than ever to
tackle the rest of the day. The bonus tip is that
waking up early, I believe, is a life hack. If you could wake up when
the sun is still down, it engages the narrative
mind and makes you much more invested in
your morning ritual.
9. Final Project: Now is the time for
the final project. For the final project. Your goal is to
clarify your thinking in regards to your
morning routine. I want you to answer the
following questions. Number one, when do
you plan to wake up? Number two, what is your ideal water intake going to look like for your
morning routine? Number three, what does your
physical activity look like? Are you going to go
walking consistently, go to the gym, do some
push ups, et cetera? Number four, I want you to identify the one
difficult task that you always postpone throughout
the day and how you're going to plug it in to
your morning routine. Answer these four questions, and post it in the final
project section right on below. Soon as you answer
these questions, it's simply going to
help you identify what you want to do and what
you don't want to do. And you, my friend, you're
going to be one step closer to building momentum
soon as you wake up. If you enjoyed this
beginner's class on creating a morning routine to improve your productivity
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Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
