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my name is Bethany welcome to the
podcast hi guys and happy Wednesday
kinda reminded by Winnie the Pooh today
because honestly it's very windy outside
meaning it's Wednesday happy Wednesday
okay sorry there are some things in life
that make me want to jump out of bed and
be really excited for the day whereas
other days especially in the middle of
the week I am not motivated to wake up
and it's really hard for me to do that
so these are things that I think will
give you such a better edge on being
successful in your day and just having
that ability to like be motivated and
organized and some of these things are
inspirational to me
they're not ones that I necessarily put
into my life every day they're not ones
that necessarily that I you know have
you been tried but they're ones that I
really wanted to bring up and share with
you guys because it might really work
for your life and it might be inspiring
to you too another thing to note is that
these are not for restful Saturdays
there are more for days where you just
have to get things done so maybe write
another routine for those days off that
you have it might be something a lot
more relaxed like reading a book that
you really wanted to finish or something
like that but that's not for this type
of day this is for the days where you
just have a lot going on one thing that
I have tried I actually found out about
it through YouTube is when you first
wake up like when your alarm goes off
it's so anti the nature of what you want
to do but if you just like raise your
arms and yell yes then it makes you
really excited to start your day because
it's like having a small pep rally for
what's about to begin and it's so funny
to read in the comments of where I found
this on YouTube and I'll link you guys
to like where I found it but so many
people were like yeah I tried that and
my mom came in my room and was like no
yelling no back
and it's really funny because I try to
like kind of wake up Zack when I do this
and it's so funny because he is not the
type to jump out of bed and so I am more
of a morning person
so it kind of fits my nature a little
bit more and maybe you've already turned
off this video but those who haven't I
welcome you to stick around for my next
tip which is to get out of bed the
minute that your alarm goes off which
Mel Robbins will actually recommends
doing this this is one of those things
I've tried and failed at even if I do
the pep rally thing I don't necessarily
want to just jump out of bed because it
could be cold one thing that's really
helped me actually to do this though is
wearing slippers so I might not jump out
of bed right away but it's kind of
comforting to know that my slippers are
right there and I don't have to start
off my day like touching the cold ground
so that's just kind of me but it really
helps me to be able to do that but still
working on the getting out of bed thing
right away another thing that can really
help with this is if you put your alarm
away from you like not right next to
your bed so you do have to jump out of
bed and so that would really help I
personally don't do that I have Alexa
and my alarm is on Alexa and so
sometimes I sleep through the alarm and
Zacks already said like Alexa stop and
so I have no idea that the alarm went
off so I really need to work on this and
take that personal advice myself and
sorry if I just made your Alexa device
go off by talking about Alexa the next
thing that I would say to do is to tidy
up a little bit starting with making
your bed and making your bed is the most
solid advice for starting your day off
right there is so many different advice
columns that say that making your bed is
one of the ways that you can achieve the
most in life just because it kind of
does something psychologically that
makes you feel like you've got things
together and I want to take that a step
further and saying there's a girl named
fly lady that I grew up with that really
showed how to kind of mitigate chaos in
your life by just doing a few different
tidying up techniques she actually
labeled chaos
acronym for can't have anyone over
syndrome and that just stuck with me
with me all of these years and basically
what I do every morning is I take her
advice and I get dressed down to shoes
meaning it's basically what if the
doorbell rings are you prepared to
answer the door and so there's
definitely been times where like I'm
gonna get a package in the mail and
people knock on my door and I have to
sign for it and stuff and I totally
didn't have that on my radar like what
do I look like in that scenario so the
first thing that I try to do is be
remotely presentable for if that were to
happen and then I just do a little bit
of tidying so I've got a rhythm I've got
something memorized which is bedclothes
trash litter dishes and so those are
things that I do in the morning at least
once a day so I might do it again at
like at night but first thing when I
wake up the general of things are taken
care of like there's no weird smells
there's no like dishes in the sink my
bed's made and yeah so I've just kind of
got everything sorted but my house is
not by no means like completely and
span at that point because I've got
other things to do in my morning the
next thing I want to talk about is
visualization and I find this extremely
important if I'm just not feeling
motivated and what this helps me to do
is strive for like that idea of the life
that I want so it's defined by me and it
looks the way that I would like my life
to look and the way that I use
visualization is basically I go on
Pinterest and I don't just go to the
homepage of Pinterest or look up
somebody else's Pinterest but I go to my
personal pins that I've pinned and it
just kind of visually reminds myself of
outfits that I could wear that day or if
I wake up early enough I could make
myself a cappuccino and it could just be
a nice slow morning or I could start a
book that I wanted to read if I woke up
really early and I'm still working on
that I used to be able to really conquer
my book reading goals in the morning and
I don't know what's happened but I'm
working on it
and then it goes back to
if I were to look on Pinterest and see
like pins about my house or like what my
house could look like if it was clean
then that'll kind of inspire me to
actually go through the motions and
clean my house a little bit in the
morning so yeah that's just kind of how
I self motivate or if I ever want to
work out I think that looking at pins
regarding workouts can really help me
inspire me to like achieve the things
that I'm looking to achieve the next
thing that I would do to make my morning
really successful is water it's really
important to me to be able to hydrate
but it's not something that I always hit
my goal on so one thing that I try to do
and I did it this morning is I'll get
just eight ounces of water and I'll try
to just you know drink that right away
before I eat breakfast before I have
coffee this is pre caffeine is I try to
have eight ounces of water and going
along with the thing about how I hate to
be cold in the mornings I don't always
have cold water I'll heat up my kettle
which I have an electric kettle I can
link you guys to it in the description
but it's amazing like I bought one for
my mom I love it so much it's really
nice because I can just heat up some
water and it turns off when it's ready
and it's not like oh crap I left my
kettle on I have to go back home so it's
really cool so what I like to do with
that is just have hot water like I can I
can do plain hot water but I can also
add lemon to it or I can make it like an
herbal tea so this is not where I have
caffeinated tea this is just for
hydration and then that's like a little
bit extra water that I have purposefully
tried to have in my morning then trying
to chug it later on at night when I'm
like I'm about to go to bed I don't want
to chug water right now so that just
kind of helps me to have hydration which
helps me have cognition and just general
health in general
generally general health generally
speaking this next tip is one that I
actually do every day and it's just
because I can get very easily
overwhelmed in all the things that are
on my in my head like that I need to do
and so what I like to do
and I've mentioned this you probably
heard me say it already is I like to
bullet journal out the things that I
have to do that day but I no longer live
in a bullet journal world I just take
that list of things and I put it into my
calendar so my calendar is really a
running to-do list and why I use my
calendar is because I can actually know
how many of those things I can check off
my day because I kind of can plot them
out in my day and be like okay it'll
take me an hour to run to the you know
whatever and and then I can go and do
that errand or whatever and it helps me
sort out my priorities and if I've got
other interruptions during my day that
it's just not realistic for me to do the
other things then I know that and I
won't beat myself up about it and it's
great to if if you run out of time in
your calendar and you're using a digital
calendar all you have to do is take that
little block and move it to like all day
next like tomorrow and then that little
thing you can just drag down when it
becomes tomorrow you can be like I've
got an hour today so just as a way to
kind of sort that out and not beat
myself up through a bullet list which I
no doubt will have crossed out and been
like crap I didn't get to that today so
that's kind of how I sort out my to-do
list items my calendar is my life and
that's just kind of how I sort out
everything out so I've got one more tip
for you guys so the first one was really
about positivity like waking up and
giving yourself a little bit of a pep
rally the second one was getting out of
bed right away third was tidying up your
space fourth was visualization going on
Pinterest next was water so getting
enough hydration in your day and just
starting your date like that one hour of
your morning out with drinking water and
then writing a to-do list so this next
one is more about the music that's
happening behind the scenes like what
are you listening to in the morning it
has such an impact on the rest of your
day one thing that I like to do is turn
on old shows but another thing that I
like to do it's so much easier to just
be like Alexa turn on classic
music and I really hope I did that and
it turned on classical music in your
house but what I like to do with that is
that it just inspires me whenever Zach
and I are in like a stressful situation
like traffic we turn on classical music
because it just kind of brings calm and
then it also has a little bit of a
rhythm or a tempo or a dance to it to
where if you're just gliding yourself
through traffic it's no big deal if I
was to listen to panic at the disco when
I was listening when I was driving like
I would wreck in fact my one and only
wreck was when I listened to the tossers
back a long time ago I'm not going to
tell you what year that was but I really
enjoyed listening to the tossers and it
did not help me drive so yeah I would
say classical music is a great way to
start your day and also bring you
through traffic I do it I just listen to
classical music even when I'm working
like because it helps me flow you know
we actually turned on classical music
this morning too which was so nice like
it's is one thing for me to turn it on
when I am like putting on my makeup or
whatever but right away in the morning
like we turned it on right away and it
made me feel like I don't know it had
this regal atmosphere to my day and it
just totally started off my day right so
yeah I'm doing a lot of taping and it's
just really fun now to be able to have
my day sorted out and just kind of
organized like there's no like dishes in
my sink
my bed's made I got dressed right away
and you know I feel much more organized
like those little Hang Ups are not
distracting me in my day right now so
I'm still working on Mel Robbins advice
to jump out of bed right away but a lot
of these things I try to do for most
days if I'm really if I really set my
mind do it these are the the best advice
that I could give so I hope that they
help you and write in the comments if
you have any like pro tips on making
your day successful and let me know if
you do any of these things as well or if
you're going to start doing them I'd
love to hear it
I'll see you guys next time
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