okay welcome to today's video for those of you that watched the last video you'll know
that for the last few months i've had this massive mental cloud of all of the things i
possibly could be doing and that's led to a lot of uncertainty with the future with the
degree i'm on and basically everything that i want to be doing and the work that i'm focusing
on it's led to a lot of demotivated states because i don't know what to focus my attention on because
there are these million things that i want to be doing and i can't see the benefits of the
stuff i should be doing for my future plans my future goals and that's a really difficult state
to be in so i vowed that for this year 2022 i would focus on gaining as much clarity with the
work that i was doing as i possibly could and with that would hopefully be in a more motivated state
be more driven and be tackling everything that i wanted to be tackling with that i found that
the single greatest determinant of that drive of that clarity is the morning routine and exactly
how it is do you start each and every day so i brought together all of the information i've
read in books in the youtube videos in literally any advice that anyone had given me to create
this morning routine the routine i'm about to show you i'm about to show you a full day
using this routine and i'm gonna be explaining whether or not i found it helpful what i'm gonna
be doing for the next 30 days few months even a year to try and adapt to this routine and turn
it into the perfect routine that gives you that clarity and gives you that intent when
it comes to your work so first of all if this sounds like something you would have value in
i would absolutely love it if you don't subscribe i'm gonna have loads more content like this coming
on this channel in fact in the new year i've got bags and bags of content planned all trying to
help you gain some clarity and be the best version of yourself in 2022 without further
ado hope you enjoy the video this is the first days in the routine and exactly how i found it
okay good morning that's so is actually monday 27th of december and i thought after all the
christmas and tastes we've had and the demon array of the week we had before that it was time
to crack on and try and have the first productive day over this christmas holiday try and get all
of the work done that we're behind on and yeah just have some sort of routine or some sort of
dumanity try and crack on with this yeah so that's what we're doing now i'm gonna have
20 minutes reading and we're going to 20 minutes to exercise 20 minutes of journaling in that high
performance plan that we got first book of the day the first week of the year is the seven habits of
highly effective people would reckon with that and they've got lots of drawings too let's go
home chest workout little 15 minute workout let's get into it
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oh my flipping it was a knackering workout we know it was absolutely smashed yet i'm feeling good i'm
feeling pumped i'm feeling ready to go so quickly breakfast then i'll see the journaling and then
me
okay so obviously the aim of a successful morning routine is to
set yourself up for the day allow you to be as productive as possible and feel as content
and as fulfilled as possible throughout the entire process so today basically i woke up
did my reading went downstairs exercise had breakfast showered all of that and filled in
every single thing that i've got to do today basically time coordinated so i know exactly when
i have to do each thing and overall everything that i've got to do that day but also a few
things to basically help me stay feeling content throughout the entire process and get it all done
without feeling like i'm just working 24 7. so by the end of this day i'll know if the morning
routine was a success if i've got five hours of artifact study done i've had all of the
calls and all the little tasks i need to do i've managed to work out i've managed to hit my calorie
goals and then i've gone out and had a sick time with all my mates in the evening and basically
completed a full well-rounded day of productive work and feeling content let's get started
give you a good time
all right we're not halfway through the day and so far so good like this you've been high we've
been getting a lot done and we've smashed out everything so far that we were meant to have done
by now like a tiny bit behind on the artifact study just because the morning like routine
ran over slightly because i was filming it so it took a lot longer otherwise yeah
we're running high although it came up to lunch and i find when i eat my energy drops
slightly so for the next kind of like half an hour i'm expecting my energy to be a lot less
but we're gonna get the coffee in we're gonna get everything in a quick change of scene now
at my dad's office because changing your scene helps with the motivation and helps
you to have the drive to get everything done so quack it on get some more drawings
if it's the problem i'll go to the barn i shut it down get on
my section don't bother with lames i'm watching
all i really want to know when we leave
tonight we've got this new uh new top i'm actually really liking it in fact let me uh
whack up the brightness so you can see a bit better yeah it's just like a little like a
fake hoodie kind of top you've got the chain you've got a new chair you've got new jeans
and then you've obviously got the watch you've got the rings and the bracelet that i've really
got me for for christmas which is absolutely sexy by the way cool let's click on the knife
okay so what my thoughts after the first day on this routine well first of all this day was
absolutely brilliant knowing exactly what i was going to do at the start of my day meant i got
straight out of bed there was no hesitancy there was no thought because i knew that if i slept
through i would screw up that routine i wanted to be up by 6am and i wanted to be working by about
half seven eight a.m and for that reason it meant that i did get out of bed i stuck to him and that
was brilliant then the most crucial thing was the routine itself so obviously i had 20 minutes of
reading i actually read the seven habits of highly effective people i found the 20 minutes wasn't
actually long enough to really comprehend the text and get a decent chunk of the way through it
so i'm actually gonna be extending that to half an hour but then after that half an hour of reading i
went straight into the exercise i did a 20 minute workout that was really good it gave me a bit of
a boost gave me some more energy throughout the day straight away when it's breakfast had this
beautiful smoothie upstairs did the journaling planned out the day and that planning of that day
gave me so much more clarity with what i wanted to do and it just meant that throughout the day
i was just sticking to that plan because i knew what i had to do when i had to do it it meant that
i started to it there was no like mental confusion anymore i wasn't thinking about the million other
things i could be doing because i'd sat down at the beginning of the day and i prioritized in fact
this book my mom actually bought it for me for christmas it's the high performance planner that
has been an absolute godsend with that it allows you to kind of deep dive into your mind at the
start of that day just like 10 15 minutes allows you to realize what you're prioritizing for that
day plan it all out and have a few things that help you feeling content and fulfilled for example
one thing you might be looking forward to that day one person you can surprise with something
nice just to make their day and loads of little things like that in that book and it also helps
you at the end of the day to dive into exactly how the day went anything you can do to improve and
the areas of your life that you feel like could be improved and that you could add more value too so
for that reason i definitely recommend this book i've linked it in the description if you do want
to pick it up on amazon is of course an affiliate link so i'll get like two to three percent
commission so if you want to help the channel out that'd be really appreciated so overall
on that first day it was a massive success i got everything i wanted to done done i went out i saw
my mates i felt so like satisfied with the work i was doing that allowed me to properly or to truly
enjoy that social experience a lot more and it left me feeling content and fulfilled at the end
of that day i went to sleep smashed it and i felt so much better than if i just been putting all
that work off i'm living in my head and all those million other things i could be doing however this
did not remain the case so for the second day and the third day i did find it slightly harder
to get up in the morning slightly harder to do that exercise i didn't have the same level of
drive that i had in the first morning having said that there were still much much more productive
days than all of the days i've had over christmas where i didn't have any morning routine at all in
fact i'd go as far as to say it was probably three or four or five times as productive just having
some sort of routine in the morning even if it didn't feel like that energy and that drive
stayed with me the entire time and then of course new year's here and i didn't get anything done the
routine went out the window and again i realized the importance of having that routine because i
did nothing the entire day and it was so so bad so the focus for this next 30 days is to revitalize
that routine try to find the perfect balance of the exercise whereby you're not like completely
draining yourself for the rest of the day which i did find on one of the days where i did a full
workout in the morning rather than 20 minutes of exercise that might be something like light
walking or a little jog or something like that it isn't too intensive that knackers you but gives
you a little bit of energy to keep because itself going but this still throws your body into a uh
an energy producing state to give you that little boost for the rest of the day that's the aim is to
focus on that for the next month next two months that's three months that is the one thing that
i feel like would solve most of the issues i'm having when it comes to the motivation when it
comes to the drive and not having that mental clarity how i start each and every morning of
this year and how i use that to propel myself in everything i'm doing but of course that's gonna be
very very tricky for example the last couple of days i haven't managed to stick to that routine
i've managed to get out of bed in the morning and that is just ruining the chance of building that
habit so i need to stick to that and then also when it comes to uni i need to try and adapt it
see if it's still going to be effective when i get there and if uni life and the craziness of
it all doesn't completely screw up this plan but if you do want to follow along do you want
to see that i definitely recommend dropping the subscribe button yeah see you next monday