Hey, Dan here, and today I'm going to share my six
musts for an amazing morning routine as an ENFP.
Now, you might be looking for the perfect ENFP morning
routine, and I have some bad news for you. It doesn't really
exist. I've been coaching ENFP for years now. And of course, I
am one myself. And the one thing I found about routines is that
the perfect routine for an ENFP is often the new routine that we
are most excited about. And therefore we have this energy to
actually follow through and stick to it. And also, because
it's new, it's probably more designed about what we're
actually trying to achieve in the moment. I've been working
for myself for almost a decade now. And during that time, I've
had phases where I've been writing a book, and that's about
it. I've had phases where I'm having 15 coaching calls a week,
I have phases where I'm doing some combination of all of the
above, or times like today where it's just an offline day, I
haven't turned my phone on, and I'm just working on filming
videos. And so the same routine probably doesn't work throughout
the lifetime. But what I have found is there's certain
elements that for me as an ENFP are essential to a successful
morning routine. And I will take these elements and remix them a
little bit depending on what my goals are for that period in my
life. So I have three don'ts and three do's and we're going to
start with the first don't, which is don't Eat That Frog.
There's an old book by Brian Tracy called Eat That Frog. And
it's basically about doing that difficult thing that you're
putting off first thing in the day, so that you don't dread it
for the rest of your day. That makes sense in theory, right,
like get up handle that, then you'll feel good for the rest of
the day. The thing is, is how much excitement and energy Do
you wake up with with the first thing you have to do is
something that you're really dreading doing. Not a lot,
usually. So that leads us to our first do which is focus on one
thing, which can be a win for the day, which is important, and
it's something you actually enjoy doing. For me, this tends
to be creative elements, maybe it's to write for two hours, or
film a few videos or record some podcasts or plan out a training
I'm doing later in the week. But something that I actually enjoy
doing. But that's important. And the thing with this is, you
might have heard maybe just a rumor that occasionally ENFPs
get distracted. Never happened to me ever, not once. But I've
heard it happens occasionally to other people. So when you start
your day off with something that's important, and you get it
done. So then if something comes up later in the day, like I
don't know, you have to save a family from a burning building
or advise the Prime Minister on a global crisis, something like
that comes up right? Then you can look back at your day. And
you'll still feel good because you've got something important
done. And if you look back over a month, if five days a week,
seven days a week, however much you're working, you do something
important every single day, even if it's only an hour of your
day, I can guarantee you're going to have a lot more success
over that month, than if you spread things out in a totally
different fashion. The other bonus of doing this is you feel
good about yourself. And I used to think that if I do something
really important and it's done, I'll lose that momentum for the
day, I'll think, oh, I've got something done. I can go be lazy
now. But actually what happens with me is I feel really good
that I've got that thing done. And then I do more. And so I'm
actually more productive. Later in the morning or in the
afternoon because I did this one important thing I feel great
about myself and it's built some very positive momentum. Speaking
of momentum, be careful about starting your day with anything
passive that you can get caught up in and want to stick around
with like a two hour interview on a podcast or a video series
somewhere or Netflix show or anything like that can get very
easy for us to hijack our brains essentially and you start
listening to this podcast, you just thought I'd listened for 15
minutes while I have breakfast or whatever it is and then an
hour and a half goes by you're thinking about the subjects that
we're talking about on the podcast. And you haven't really
got into that main thing you want to do that most important
thing for your day. So some media and material is okay of
course all Dreams Around The World and Dreams Around The
World related media is of course approved of this. No, I'm just
kidding. But some stuff is a bit better than others. But my rule
when I really want to ensure my days go well is nothing no input
until I get through that one most important thing just to be
on the safe side of it. Now our second do here for an amazing
ENFP morning routine is
To do get moving, to do something that is going to get
your body going, could be going for a walk, going for a run,
doing something at home, as well as some kind of home exercise. I
personally like leaving the house, I think there's something
about this stimulus of walking around seeing other people
seeing other things, having that variety to start off the day, I
think that can be very positive. I think one of my favorite parts
about running is running and just new areas that I haven't
been to, and seeing things in that way. But whatever you do
something where you are getting moving in the day, so get up,
get going, it's a great way to build momentum for the day. And
it's again, one of those wins. Like if it's something that you
don't currently do go for a walk or run in the morning, let's say
you start doing it. Now you have another win and feeling good
about yourself. And building that positive momentum is
really, really important. So not only does getting moving, change
the way you think and function, it also builds your confidence
in yourself. And that positive momentum in the day. Speaking of
feeling good about yourself, or last don't is don't open social
media, no matter what. In fact, I would strongly discourage you
from opening any inbox in the morning that includes WhatsApp,
text messages, and email, but especially the all social media
as ENFP is our primary function is Extraverted Intuition. This
is where we think about all the possibilities. When someone asks
us a question, we don't usually turn to them and say, here's the
exact answer, there's only one way to do it like maybe an ESTJ
would we think about all the options and the possibilities?
And what could even be done that's never been done before.
And what happens when you open an inbox of questions like you
open your WhatsApp first thing in the morning, and you have
messages from a friend saying, hey, do you want to do something
on Friday? What should we do? You have a message from your partner
say, Hey, we should take a trip together? What would you like to
do? Where should we go? You start to think of these guess
what you've just done, you've loaded in these questions into
your extroverted intuition. And whether you want to or not, your
brain is now using a huge amount of its processing power to
answer these questions in the background or the foreground. So
an hour later, maybe you just find yourself a bit more drained
than you normally would be because you've been thinking
about this, or maybe more likely to find yourself on a flight
site, looking at flights or looking at restaurant reviews,
figuring out where you should go. Questions are very dangerous
for us. And pretty much any inbox that exists is a question
factory, you open your inbox, and there are questions there
and things to think about. Some days are not going to be bad,
some days are no problem. But other days will be and
unfortunately, there's no way to predict when that will happen.
And of course, with social media specifically is in most cases,
it's not set up to make you the happiest. Now I know some people
who have their newsfeed really well set up my girlfriend's
newsfeed just makes her laugh. It's all funny and inspiring
videos, because that's what she reacts to and likes. There's
very little politics and other stuff on it. But in many cases,
myself included when I do look at feed and that I don't
have a good feeling from it, it doesn't leave me anything
positive. So don't do that. That's a pretty simple rule. How
you start your day is probably going to carry over in terms of
your moods and energy and that as well. And it's usually for
most people, the time of the day where you have the most energy
and focus, so don't waste it on any kind of inbox. Speaking of
your energy, and this is our last do here is take a moment to
remind yourself of your WHY and what your intentions for the day
were. And by intentions, it can be something like I intend to be
a more positive loving human being today. That's great. It
can also just be reviewing your to do list which you should
always write the night before, I might make a whole nother video
on this and why this is important with how our brains
function. But your to do list should be done the night before,
never the morning of. So when I say review your intention, it
can even just be getting up and looking over. Here's what I'm
going to do today and going through that list. When you
first wake up in the morning you have a bit of a blank slate. So
it's really a great time to load up your attention what you want
to get done, maybe how you want to feel what you want to
accomplish, and get that in before some other crap gets into
your mind. Right. So always review what you want to get done
in the day first, before getting into any kind of inbox, any kind
of other input from other people that has a huge chance of
hijacking your day. As I said at the start I do not think there
is one perfect ENFP morning routine. I think we have to
adjust it based on our phases in life and who we are and just to
have some novelty but these elements
I have found consistently lead to a great morning routine for
myself. And I would encourage you to pick at least a few of
them if not all of them to add to your morning routine. If you
are new to the channel my name is Dan I am an ENFP as well and
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you in the next video.