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good morning swedish potatoes how many
of us could relate
to that when it comes to visualizing our
morning routine some of us
have full on production studios working
around the clock
in our heads and when our morning
doesn't turn out as we planned
we get dejected we feel unmotivated so i
thought
why not create a video about how to
create a morning routine you'll love
waking up to and be able to stick to
as i go through my morning you guys
already saw my morning routine it's some
combination of both it really
changes depending on how i'm feeling
which we'll get into in step number
three there's going to be three steps
this is what's saying before we get
started your morning routines
are your morning routines it can be as
simple or aesthetic as you want it to be
you can wake up at 5 00 a.m and 9 a.m 11
a.m
whatever it is wherever you are in your
life do what makes
the most sense to you take all of these
morning routine videos
and that girl videos as entertainment or
inspiration not as viable
because morning routines if you really
boil it down
why do we do morning routines for most
of us it's to help us feel at peace
grounded and calm
you know in the morning so that we can
carry that
presence throughout our day not to be
super stressed and anxious the first
thing we wake up
so let's go make a smoothie as we talk
about the first point of building a
foundation
for your dreams thank you so much to
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all right step one is setting the
foundation
for your dream morning routine
objectively speaking i've spent more
days in my life
without a morning routine than with the
morning routine
and i've spent more days of my life now
waking up as early as i'd like
versus actually waking up at a time that
i wanted to wake up at especially over
2020 so it's easy to think
that i'm the worst at sticking with
morning routines or just routines in
general
but if we take a step back
i'm so bad at multitasking if we take a
step back and look at our
life as a timeline versus a specific dot
because i think we usually
focus on what i did or didn't do today
versus looking at our timeline
of all the things that you've done all
the habits that you've tried all the
routines that you've tried
you may actually we may actually
surprise ourselves
okay so as always it'll be helpful to
look backward before we move forward
this is something that we say
all the time think back to high school
college your childhood days your any
days within this the whole
lifetime of your existence what habits
have you tried
throughout this whole timeline doesn't
need to be things that you just do in
the morning can be any habit that you've
done
write it all down so after you've
written everything down go
through the list that you just created
and
next to every habit write down
just how it made you feel when you were
consistent with the habit at that time
did it spark joy is it something that
you want to go back to
is it something that's just okay and
you'd be okay if you know it wasn't in
your life
so let's just finish this because i'm
talking so much
i'm not really i'm not really actually
mike and
smoothie vlogging is hard guys i don't
know how
some people do it i don't know how much
water i want i do like it more watery so
let's just add a bit
more
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all right moving on to point number
two let's go uh just do something
like something light to my face
kaja
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here's my little bag of goodies okay so
the first step was
identifying the foundation and moving
parts of what your
morning routine can be the second step
is to start putting the pieces together
now that you went through your list of
all the habits you ever tried and you
put pluses or you made a mental note of
like oh
this is good this has really helped me
this has been really impactful
take a step back look out the window
and think to yourself if i can create
my ideal morning routine what would it
be and since we are dreaming big dreams
be as specific and detailed as you can i
need the mirror
through this video i realize
i just i'm not the best at multitasking
but oh no we learned something new every
day and this
isn't even for your eyebrows this is an
eyeliner
all right let's just try to brush it out
so now that
you have written out your
ideal ideal ideal morning routine on
your best days this is what your morning
would look like
step number three would be turning
dreams into reality so how do we do that
you look at the ideal morning routine
you just came up with you get a
highlighter
and you highlight the must like your
non-negotiables like i need to do this
every morning no snoozing
make bed brush teeth and skincare drink
some type of fluid out the door by 7 15
reading for 1.5 hours at the office
before work so of course
my ideal and your ideal is different
what i choose to highlight and what you
choose to highlight will be different
but this
really helps you understand for yourself
on my
off days or on my low energy days when i
wake up not feeling the best
here is the bare minimum that i need to
do and that i will do for myself
because these are must have versus
everything else on this list they're
more
nice to have like it would be nice if i
meditated in the morning but
my morning and my day is not going to be
shot if i don't meditate in the morning
because i can do it at night but if i
don't brush my teeth and if i don't wash
my face
my breath will be stanky my face will be
dry
it just it's not a good feeling to have
throughout the rest of your day now that
you've identified your must-haves versus
your nice to have from your ideal
morning routine
there's a few things you can do you can
create three morning routines
one for low energy one for mid energy
and one for high energy for example
my ideal morning routine would be my
high energy it's
when i wake up early enough i'm feeling
it
i have time i will run through the whole
morning routine
but if i wake up with mid to low energy
it'll probably just be
my must-haves and my essentials which is
like the more stripped-down version the
second thing
is something that finn from team potato
shared with me
she was talking about how for her in her
morning routines
movement is non-negotiable but within
movement there will be three levels so
for example
first level is jumping jacks and 30
crunches the second level is doing a
full youtube video and the third level
is doing a full
youtube video and going for a run this
levels and variations of a habit is
pretty similar to the low
mid and high energy it's really just
giving yourself options if i don't want
to go for a run today
i can just do jumping jacks and do
crunches and still feel good about
getting that one thing done and being
able to check it off your list
so the last thing of this section is
something that we talk about
all the time which is setting systems
for your habits so a few examples of
this would be
if you want to wake up early as we know
the systems that we can set for
ourselves
is to go to bed a bit early and how
we're going to go to bed earlier we can
come up
with a wind down routine with a
nighttime routine if you guys want to
see a nighttime routine video
of how to create your best most ideal
nighttime routine video
actually it's you're literally just
gonna do the same thing for morning but
instead you'll do it for night time um
but yeah if you guys want to see that
you can comment down below and let me
know what you think another thing is if
you want to make sure you skincare
in the morning what you can do is leave
your skincare
out on your counter even if it looks a
bit cluttered a lot of
routines and habits really is setting
an environment and leaving yourself cues
and triggers to remind yourself like
okay when you wake up you go into the
bathroom ah there's all the skincare
here oh
maybe i should put it on my face and
then you'll do that another example
is let's say i want to make sure i'm
using sunscreen every day
right right over here i have one two
three four at least four or five bottles
of different sunscreens
so that it's the last thing i do of my
skincare routine before i head out
other ways you can leave yourself
reminders and cues
is to put sticky notes around your place
whether it's on your mirror in your
bathroom going through my ideal list the
next thing would be change into
something cute like actually put
at least like 10 effort into my outfit
because i usually put zero percent
lay it out the night before i need i i
think this is great for working out as
well and this is something that i talked
about in my how to wake up at 4am video
a last tip so let's say if you want to
get in the habit of doing morning pages
or journaling
in the mornings something that you could
do to help set the mood and set the
environment
would be lighting a candle right like
it's kind of extra to write
to light a candle every morning but why
not and if you just want to read in the
morning this is actually something that
my friend does
every time she sits down to read she
would light a candle so that
mentally it's like ah it's time to just
settle in
and settle down and read
get lost in books i hope these three
steps
were helpful i personally found that a
lot of times people
like myself do a lot of morning routine
videos and people love watching them
but sometimes i realize they can seem
very
foreign and unattainable especially with
the that girl trend
where it just seems like everyone is
living the most aesthetic life
don't be too caught up in the look of
things
focus more on how the habits actually
make you
feel after trying it out yeah i think
the
the the most important thing is if
someone hasn't told you lately
you already are that girl when you're
being true
to yourself at the end of the day an
aesthetic
life without meaning or death
it's still a pretty empty life you know
like you can
you can look good on the outside you can
dress well you can
do all the the things on the outside but
still feel empty inside
it serves as a little reminder for you
that you are enough as you are
and as long as you're being true to
yourself and doing
what is best for you in this moment
in time in your very very long and drawn
out timeline
if you're here doing your best trying
your best
that's all that matters and that again
as always
our best looks different at different
times in our lives and that's totally
fine
this has been very fun i actually
usually
don't put on makeup on a daily basis
unless i have to film
but i thought it would be a fun
challenge
for me to do this
this mascara is pretty lit i don't know
if this is new but it's tart
c surfer curl and
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