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I don't have a morning routine. It all sounds really complicated. Okay.
I'm just a girl with the wifi password and a dream and a puppet and bubbles and
snacks. I always try to have snacks. Hey, YouTube world, it's me Evelyn.
It has probably taken me three solid years and a lot of YouTube videos to get it
through my head and finally understand that I can't just copy someone else's
morning routine because they're talented or popular,
successful or extremely wealthy.
Steve Jobs wore the same outfit every day so as to not waste time
clothing himself.
Ava DuVernay drinks four glasses of water and writes five things she's grateful
for every morning, every morning she got five things.
Shonda Rhimes wakes up at 5:30 in the morning just so she can have some alone
time before her kids wake up. That's how much she love herself,
that she would rather be awake and in her own company than sleeping.
Can't relate.
Your routine has to actually make sense for you.
It has to serve you and your lifestyle and your responsibilities and the things
that you value in life. So here's what I've come up with.
I'm wanna wake up every morning and do something not related to the internets.
Look, I know it's my last name,
but there have been way too many mornings when I wake up and I stumble out of
bed and walk directly to my computer and start writing or editing something or
I scroll through Instagram for half an hour in the bed or I watch four pointless
YouTube videos back to back to back to back algorithm,
just going wherever the algorithm takes me instead
maybe I could draw,
I could read a book, mess around on the piano.
♫ Eee, ooo ♫
(mumbles the lyrics to "The Box" by Roddy Ricch)
What's the next chord?
People who are much busier than me
seem to be able to do this and I get that it's because they've got employees,
but they still understand the psychological benefit of easing into the day,
especially in our hyper connected world. You feel me? And to be clear,
I don't want this step in my morning routine because I want to be more
productive and get more done and hustle hard.
I want this step so that I can be happier.
It's like I said in one of my previous videos,
just because your job is cool doesn't mean it's not a job.
I don't want to stare at a screen all day.
Next in my dream morning routine and this one's revolutionary.
Okay. Uh, I want to have breakfast.
Currently, I usually skip breakfast, um, because I ain't got no food.
Um, I didn't prep the food like I don't have any food items, um,
to eat for breakfast and I hate overnight oats.
Don't suggest it.
They are disgusting and I'm trying to eat something better for my body
than Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But it is the taste you can see.
I would also love to form the habit of showering and getting ready for the day
every day. But for the most part, I be here in this room.
It's a cute room, but I be, I be here.
So that means I be staying in the clothes that I slept in.
Crust all in my eyes still. I mean I brush my teeth,
but I'll usually get started on my work and then shower later in the day.
Maybe.
This is my reality and I think that's part of the reason why,
I never know what day it is,
like it be filling like three Wednesdays in a row and I don't like that.
It's taken me a while to understand the things that I need to do in the mornings
to feel like a well adjusted human and it's not waking up super early or even at
the same time every day.
It's not being on a tight schedule so I can fit more things into my day.
It's being able to incorporate some play into my morning,
some creative roaming around tinkering,
and it can come in the form of choosing which head wrap or which color eyeliner
to wear that day. Those things make me happy.
Being on my Jamie Fox and spending a couple minutes at the piano,
just making myself laugh, a little breakfast, a little nibble, all right
and then we'll get on with the day.
I am probably going to track this in my bullet journal and see how I feel after
a while of doing it.
I probably will update y'all somewhere on the internets
but I won't be filming the process because that I wouldn't be doing it.
I would be filming it, which goes against the first thing on my list,
so I feel good about this.
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let me know if you have any tips for me on my journey to having an actual
morning routine or, I mean,
let me know if you think this is pointless to be honest, if it,
if resistance is futile, let me know
if you have a very specific morning routine and I will see you on the internets
somewhere. Bye. Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.
Every time I come around the city....bling bling
I'm sprung...(mumbles)