welcome to camp today i thought i would show you kind of my i guess morning routine when i
am out car camping honestly this is very similar to what i do at home as well but
we've just woken up i've changed for the day out of my pajamas
and the sun has just peaked over the mountains so it's gonna be a good day
the first thing i do in the morning is fill up my water bottle
i am obsessed with this electrolyte mix it's called re-lyte and it's very salty and i love it
i do this first thing in the morning because one i just i like the taste but it also just
kind of sets me up for good hydration throughout the day especially when i'm gonna be in the sun
all day long today out here it's just like a nice way to start the day and this is i think this is
my favorite electrolyte mix i've ever had it's not super sweet uh it's very very salty it has
Redmond sea salt which you know that i love my Redmond sea salt so i'll do in the morning
in this whole bottle just half a scoop because i don't need a whole scoop let's do that okay
mmm i just love salt
tons of good stuff in here and it's not sugary
okay oh dang it i forgot to brush my teeth
i usually do that first but i'll do that second because i'm really thirsty
so yeah it's not super intense
half a scoop in this whole thing and i'll try to finish this throughout the morning
with some coffee but now i'm gonna brush my teeth and then make the coffee because it's cold
okay brushing my teeth
mm-hmm
i'm faster than electricity
okay coffee in hand and i have a blanket and my notebook
and this is one of my favorite parts of the morning so i'm gonna walk and try
to find a nice little spot to just put out the blanket and sit there and do my
like journaling morning routine so i'll tell you more about that once we find a good spot
here's the thing that i realized when i wake up roll over and check my phone first thing
in the morning that is not a positive habit for me like i can just look at it big picture
and scrolling through instagram or checking my emails the second i wake up is not
positive for me so i completely stopped doing that and i'm pretty adamant about that in my morning
routine whether i'm out camping or at home i do not check my phone first thing in the morning and
so that's easy to do when you're camping because you don't typically have service so you can't do
that so my morning routine consists of waking up making my coffee and then instead of sitting at
my desk or instead of grabbing my phone i grab my notebook or i grab a book and i will journal
now this doesn't have to take long sometimes i journal for two minutes sometimes i journal
for 20 minutes sometimes i read just a page or sometimes i read a bunch of pages it depends on
the day depends on what i have going on that day but i found that taking some moments between when
i wake up and when i grab my phone really sets me up for a better day so today while i'm out here i
didn't bring a book because i'm in between books i just finished one but i'm gonna do my journaling
and this is just like stream of consciousness like there is no goal i write down all sorts of
random thoughts there's no editing and yeah i just write sometimes i'll get good ideas sometimes i'll
process things sometimes i write about what i'm excited about like i said there are no guidelines
at all like you just sit down and write and have my coffee if i can do this outside that is really
the best because i like to get sunlight first thing in the morning on my face there are so many
benefits to sunlight but i found that first thing in the morning it's really good for just helping
you wake up and it also helps reset your circadian rhythm so you can actually sleep better at night
there's just so many benefits to getting sunlight first thing in the morning so i try to do that
and again when i'm out camping this is just like the dream right here it's beautiful day there's no
wind it's nice and warm in the sun and i can just sit here and journal and think about things and
maybe get some creative ideas maybe not like it's just nice to have this time for me i think this is
a really important practice for just mental health in general when i'm scrolling instagram i'm always
like oh i should be doing that i should be doing that like and it just to do that to yourself first
thing in the morning i just found that that's just not a positive habit for me to get into so i've
actively tried to change that and replace those few minutes in the morning with journaling or
reading getting sunshine nick and i do something called coffee walks and a lot of times we'll grab
our coffee and we actually just go out for a walk first thing in the morning and get that sunlight
on our face we talk about the day or what we're thinking about something that we want to do like
it's a nice time to actually just talk and connect as well there's a lot of different ways that you
can kind of bring this practice of what i call sunshine before screens into your life and so
it's like i said it's so easy to do while you're camping but this is something that i
actively do at home as well so i'm gonna get to my journaling practice and sip on my coffee
look at how beautiful these wildflowers are oh my gosh they're so beautiful
i am so hungry and today i'm just going to do a very simple i have some pancake mix here
just like a protein pancake mix and some fresh blueberries i'm just gonna do blueberry pancakes
by the way this is a gelato container and i found for camping it's actually great for
these types of things like berries that could get squished in the cooler let me get my cast iron pan
this is going to be a really easy breakfast it's a go-to for me all cooked in my cast iron pan
blueberries
oh gosh i overcrowded the pan
yeah look at this maple syrup thing i found it's perfect for camping drizzle shot here we go
where's my fork all right i'm gonna dive in to this here we go
so that is gonna be it for my morning routine i'm gonna dive
into these pancakes they're so good if you like this video make sure to give it a like
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