How many morning routine videos have you seen where the person
is like, I wake up at 5 a.m.
Sharp every morning and then I make myself a bulletproof
coffee. And then I go on to the balcony and I do yoga manifest
my intentions and dreams and desires for the day and then
I create a master checklist of all the things I want to get
done. What else do they, I mean, you get the gist. Something about those
morning routine videos have never resonated with me and I think it's
partially because I am what they call a highly sensitive
person. Now it turns out that there is a genetic component to being highly sensitive.
It means that your central nervous system is literally more
sensitive to changes in the environment. You're more attuned
to social environmental emotional stimuli etc. It's estimated that
15 to 20% of us have this trait and it makes us great teachers,
advisors, counsellors. We're very intuitive.
We tend to have a better sense of where things are going
before they get there.
And the drawback of that is that if we're not careful we
run the risk of burning out.
That's one of the things that I learned about myself last
year and my journey towards intentional self-discovery, but
I thought for today video thing as there are very few videos
on YouTube about self-care or morning productivity routines
for highly sensitive people.
I thought I would make one myself.
It is 9:25 and Chadley and I are ready for bed.
If you haven't met my dog, Chadley, that's him.
Hey there, it's future Julianne.
It's at this point that I realized that I sucked at speaking
while holding a camera at the same time.
So I'll just do a voice-over.
Anyway, like I said, I like to go to bed early because drum
roll please, I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to
wake up to an alarm.
I don't care how late its set to I do not like to wake up
to an alarm. The reason for this is because I am a highly
sensitive person and I believe this is true for many
highly sensitive people is that losing even half an hour
of sleep means
I'm essentially ruined for the day.
I am.
Sensitive to sleep deprivation.
Oh, yes.
I wanted to show you something, CBD oil.
So it's baffling to me you how this isn't legal in so many
states but CBD oil even the most crude among us.
can, I think, really get behind its benefits.
It is my secret ingredient to falling asleep. In the past,
I've dealt with insomnia, which is not fun. So now I try to
take as many precautions as I can including going to bed
early getting that the process of falling asleep early and
using CBD oil to help me fall asleep.
This is something that I can take every night.
I've been doing it for over a year now and I prefer using
this because it's natural instead of using sleeping pills,
which can be addictive. CBD oil isn't addictive. As I'm waiting
for the CBD oil to kick I'll usually have an audiobook
set the timer mode and this one here happens to be particularly
boring, which is great.
Now it is bedtime. At around 7:30 a.m.
In the morning,
I'm awake. Naturally. The first thing I do
of course, is check my phone for the time and then it's time
to jump out of bed because Chadley needs to release his
bladder. Mornings are when my mind can think the clearest.
So, I don't like to waste my precious mental resources on things like checking social media
Having a dog with a small bladder, and devilishly cute eyes
helps with curbing the whole phone addiction thing, I will have to say
Okay so now I'm walking my dog. It's a gloomier
day in Vancouver today we're super fortunate to live so close to a dog park. While Chadley is
playing I like to go to my favourite meditation spot to
meditate. I use an app called "Waking Up" by Sam Harris and
I love this app because it has lessons on why meditation
is beneficial in a way that resonates with me.
I really like the way Sam Harris distills convoluted
concepts and makes them really easy to understand.
So there I am meditating.
My neighbors probably think I'm a huge jerk, but I don't
care. Before I started meditating, I used to be so anxious about all the things I needed
to get done. These morning walks with Chadley used to be so nerve-wracking.
Anxiety has a way of demanding all of our attention and I used to think that if I wasn't
getting into them, I wasn't optimizing my productivity. That
turned out to be the biggest load of BS ever because as it
turns out even the best of us can't be productive for more
than six to seven hours a day.
The rest is pure gravy,
I'm telling you. Now it's time to head back. And I'm here, wiping Chadley's paws, then I gotta feed him.
By around 9 a.m.
I'm back of my desk. This is when I pull out my journal.
Before I begin my work, I like to plan the day, of course.
And before I even plan the day, I like to dedicate time
to creating a gratitude list.
And to be honest with you.
I look forward to this part more than even to the the part where
I'm making a to-do list. And somedays
I don't even make a to-do list.
It really doesn't bother me that much.
But, the gratitude list part is important because did you
know that gratitude is a form of mindfulness.
It's really quite fun, and I highly encourage you to make a habit of it.
And now, here I am making a to-do list. And then at around 11 to 12 noon I'll get up and I'll
make my first meal of the day and I like my first meal of
the day to be rich in protein and fat and lean on the carbs.
The reason why is because I like to prevent that mid-afternoon
car crash that tends to happen with more carb-rich breakfast.
I've never really understood why people eat sugar for breakfast
for example, it just, you know, what's a recipe for you crashing
later on. And you know what, to each their own. Nutrition is a very
personal choice. But me, specially if I'm in the zone
I have the ability sometimes to be so focused on my work
that I just forget everything else that goes on. And one of
the worst experiences is to have your flow state be interrupted
by grumbling stomach.
That's that's what I like to prevent.
Aside from that, I think that's it.
I am curious. So they say 15 to 20% of us are
highly sensitive people.
Are you one such person?
Let me know in the comments section below and if you like
this video and if you didn't like it, let me know because
every piece of feedback is very crucial to me right now as
l figure out how to take the direction of this channel.