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I am doing a series called love your life. Self-care. Summer is complete it's done. It's a little package
It's right there waiting in my playlist. It's right on the home page of my youtube channel
So if you guys are not caught up on self-care summer
Make sure that you guys binge through that entire thing talk tons about self-love
Self-care self compassion and all that good stuff this series. I'm rolling out is called love your life series
I'm so excited about it. It's going to be similar content to self-care summer. It's just a little bit different
I'm going to be covering some more self love some more self-care, but we're just going to take it to the next level
I'm gonna be talking about things like decluttering
Minimalism habits and successful people which is what today's video is going to be about today's video is going to be called 7 morning habits
of successful people
I'm going to be telling you guys some of the things that most
successful people and creative people do in the mornings all human beings are creative and all human beings have the
opportunity to be successful and success is measured so
Differently for all sorts of different people for this video success means to live the best
fullest most driven
Motivated life that you possibly can. This is our kickoff video
So it's the intro to love your life series
So I would love for you guys just like you did for self-care summer to comment below and let me know exactly
What you guys want to see because these videos are going to be shot weekly in the moment
I can switch things up and come up with ideas as I go
So I'd love this to be just like self-care summer where we have conversations back and forth before we get into the 7 tips
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Give this video a thumbs up if you are excited for the love your life series. My first tip for you is to wake up
Earlier, I personally wake up around 5:30 in the morning lately sometimes six and if I'm tired
I will do seven but my aim and my focus is to wake up at 5:30
Every single day I've been a morning person for probably the past five years, but I was never a morning person growing up
I never wanted to get up for school
I never wanted to get up for work, but I would make myself get up earlier when I was in banking
I would make myself get up earlier because I knew that I wanted to have a bath in the morning before I went to work
Because it was my moment of Zen before I went into this
Industry where like I had to deal with people all day and money and numbers that I didn't really like
But I knew that I wanted to have a moment of Zen in the morning
So I wake up extra early for that and now I wake up extra early so that I can get
Emails done in the morning, but also have a moment to myself
It's really important for me to have time to
prioritize and plan out my day and have time to like write things down and think creatively and have
Just some unplugged time and all of those things that I'm going to talk about that I do after
5:30 before I start working are the things that I'm going to be talking about in this video as well
So we'll get into all of those yet
But waking up early finding out ways to get yourself to wake up earlier
And I'm going to be doing a video specifically about how to wake up everyday at 5:30 in the morning
so if that's something that you guys want to see
Please let me know in the comments and give this video a thumbs up that way that I know
that that's something that you guys want to see because I've already kind of written that out and started creating that so I hope
That's something that you do want to see my tip number two is to have a creative
unplug hour and that's exactly why I
Made waking up at 5:30 in the morning or just waking up early in general like number one tip
Because that allows time for you to accomplish things like this a creative unplug hour is where you don't have your phone with you
You're not really doing anything work-related
You're not scrolling through Instagram and you are opening something or even typing on your computer
Some creative ideas or you're reading a book you're reading poetry
You're walking outside, whatever it is that inspires you to be more creative
Do that
I know that not everybody has a creative career and not everybody gets to be creative as their job
I haven't always had a job where I get to create but
Creativity is such a broad spectrum
There's so many things that human beings do on a daily basis that requires
Creation and creativity if you're starting a business
You are starting something out of nothing and that is being created
it doesn't always mean being a painter or being a writer or
Like whatever it might be whatever creative job is that you think about immediately it doesn't always mean that
creation is
So wide and there's so many things that people do on a daily basis when we cook
We're creating so allowing us to use the right side of our brain in the morning really helps get the creative
juices flowing and if you're somebody who wants to be more creative
Which I don't know who doesn't then having this creative unplug our to help inspire you is
Crucial and will really help you be a more creative
Successful person tip number three is to plan and strategize for your day plan and strategize sounds so intense
but it really is just
Creating your to-do list or looking at your calendar making sure that you're knocking off what you need to get done and to just prioritize
Things so I like to do the hardest thing first thing in the day
so whether that be a workout whether that be
Tackling a task for work that I know I need to get done right away
Like filming videos is something that I try to put as a priority
First thing in the day or coming up with ideas or doing emails whatever the most
Important task is I try to get that done first so that everything else throughout the day is a little bit easier
planning and strategizing is the best way to
Get the things down that knee get done and to stay organized to get that done
You can keep it to do list in your head
But I know for me that doesn't necessarily work because I don't have the best memory in the world
So I will go on to the next day and think oh my gosh
I didn't get that done and the important part is to
actually do the to-do list because there's so many things that we can put on the to-do list and
We can just way on to the next day
But I think the best thing to do is to be realistic about your to-do list
Knowing what you really can get done that day
And it feels so good to check mark off that to-do list and it just makes you feel all around
Like a more successful person and like your day was a success
Tip number four is to burn calories and burn calories not meaning to lose weight
But burn calories to get your body moving
To feel more energized to feel like you've accomplished something that day and to just do it for yourself and for your well-being
I have been on such a workout kick lately
And yes, I am extremely sore right now
But I feel so accomplished in the fact that I am sitting here filming a video
For you guys, but also knowing in my mind that I'm also taking care of myself
First and foremost so that I can give back to the world
because if we're not taking care of us first, then who are we to
give advice and
Information to people to consume. I don't feel right when I give you guys advice and I'm not taking care of me. So I
Do make sure that working out?
Meditating taking care of myself doing yoga doing everything I can for my well-being in my own health and my own stress levels
is really crucial and
important to me first and foremost
Getting a good sweat pushing past points that you didn't think you could accomplish last night
I took a workout class called sweat 60 and it was
so incredibly difficult there were moments where I just
Didn't think I could continue going and there moments where I had to take a break
I didn't do it using the entire time but I mean
I'm not hard on myself about that because the fact that I even showed up and then I'm sweating and then I'm pushing my
self past my comfort zone is enough for me, so I can't encourage working out and
Getting a good sweat and burning calories more
It's just a very crucial part of life for your energy and well-being number five
I mentioned briefly in the last one meditation and I'm going to mention it briefly
right now because I have talked about it so many times and I did create a video that was dedicated solely to
inspire you to meditate so I will link that in a card coming up right now and I'll link it in my description box as
well meditation is
So wonderful to be a more mindful person to really be a happier
well-rounded person to collect your thoughts a mindful person is a more successful person in life because if you
tackle each moment with more mindfulness then it's just going to be an
Easier process life will just be an easier process for you
so meditation
Good tip the sixth tip is to connect with someone you love in the morning
Someone who brings out happiness with you somebody who keeps you grounded for me. It's two people in my life
I love facetiming with my mom in the morning, especially if alex is out of town
And I also really make a point to connect with Alex when he's here him and I always have coffee
together in the morning
We sit for a moment on the couch and just talk
we talk about the date before we talk about the morning we talked about just kind of what's going on in life and
having that connection to another human being and someone who makes you happy and like just brings you back down to earth is a really
great way to take on
The day if we go straight into our work if we go straight into thinking about all the things that we need to get done
And accomplished it makes life feel kind of like you're just carrying a heavy backpack
We can kind of put that backpack down
Take a deep breath connect with someone that we love and then we just feel
Accomplished and I guess the social aspect of our life as well kind of taking off on the to do
connecting with someone you love is a really important part of just feeling like you've done something good in the loving and
heart
Aspect like that if that makes any sense last but not least tip number seven is a gratitude
Journal, and it doesn't have to be specifically a gratitude journal
it could be just your journal in general, but writing down the things that you
Are grateful for whenever you're feeling a little bit down, too?
I think that that is especially a crucial part in the morning when you're having coffee or
When you're also planning and strategizing, I think that's the best time to do it
I have this here and I have been writing down content ideas
And I have a little like notes section here where I just write down
random things that I'm grateful for especially when I'm feeling stressed and when I'm feeling overwhelmed
because that's just a way to remind you and bring you back into the things that
You are really lucky to have and the things that you've worked really hard to
Accomplish and gratitude as I have said a million trillion thousand times
In my just content in general gratitude is the number one key to happiness in my opinion. So
Gratitude my friends write it down. That is my seven morning habits for successful people video
I hope that you guys enjoyed this video and then you got some good tips and motivation
make sure you guys give this video a thumbs up just for the love your life series in general and again
Make sure you're caught up the self-care summer
I hope that you guys are having an awesome day and I will see you very very very soon in a new video
I love you guys to the moon
Enjoy your successful mornings