Miracle Morning Routine [0:00:00]
When I wake up, I love to give love. And, yes, my dog is the first one to wake up with
me, so she gets a kiss. I then, go over and kiss my wife, tell her I love her and tell
her it's time to wake up. A little bit later in the morning, each of
my kids are going to wake up, I make sure when I see them that I let them know I love
them. I always try to hug them, but sometimes they get away. And, I also am going to send
some messages out the family members I know they're kind of having some tough times. I
always try to send at least one message out in the morning to one family member to let
them know I'm thinking about them and I love them.
So, why do this first thing in the morning? Why send out these messages? Why do I kiss
a dog? Because, guys, when you give love even to an animal, guess what? It comes right back
at you, and all of a sudden you feel better about yourself, you feel loved. The exception
to this rule is cats. My cat doesn't give a shit about me.
In today's video, gents, I'm sharing with you my miracle morning routine.
Next up, I'm grabbing a drink. First up, I'm drinking a full glass of water. After that,
I'm moving on to coffee. Love my coffee in the morning. And I set it up as a reward,
something that actually I can enjoy with my wife. I have coffee with creamer with what
is it? Half and a half. A little bit of coconut sugar, I absolutely love it.
I go a little bit fancy in the coffee because I set up a time in which I can actually enjoy
drinking the coffee with my wife. Past 10:00 o’clock though, no caffeine in my body,
I'm going for red tea and I drink quite a bit of it, actually finding that was relatively
healthy. Put a little bit of honey in there. And, again, for me, this is how I'm going
to get most of my water. And, yes, I know that straight water is probably
better for me than the tea with little bit of honey, but, guys, I'm working on it. I'm
getting in my liquids. The next part of my miracle morning, I serve.
And that's a fancy way of saying that I do the dishes. I put in a load of laundry and
I start breakfast. So, every morning, I spend about 30 to 45 minutes cleaning, organizing,
and getting my kids ready for the day. Now, a lot of guys may be saying, ah, that's
a woman's job or I'm glad I don't have kids. That's a bunch of BS. A real man invests in
his family and he's not above doing the lowliest jobs in his household.
And, I have to admit I kind of enjoy this dead time in the morning on which I'm prepping
breakfast and scrubbing pans. Why? Because I get to listen to my favorite books on Audible.
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I'm listening to. So, the book I'm listening to right now is
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talking about how you should truly run a business. He's ran multiple businesses. He has worked
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prepping breakfast, but really I'm actually back in school. I am learning from the best
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Next up, I journal, or to be more honest, I try to journal. I probably only journal
about 25% of the time. But, if you think about it in a year, that's still ninety times I'm
going to sit down and I'm going to write in a journal in a planner and I'm going to actually
think through my day. That is better than nothing.
Most of the time though what I'm doing is I'm simply taking a sheet of paper, I'm either
writing down a to-do list or I'm building out a priority matrix. Every day, I just find
that writing it down and thinking through after I've been listening to my audiobooks
I've been moving around, all of a sudden, okay, I'm writing down what I'm going to accomplish.
When I write this down, what I love is then I can go back in and cross it out. If I'm
going to do a to-do list, I make sure it's a micro to-do list. I've talked about this
before. But, the idea is to break out all the small things, so you feel good you feel
the accomplishment of actually being able to mark them off.
And, with the priority matrix, I focus in on what is urgent and what is important. Those
are the most important things and then, the non-urgent, but still important. And then,
everything I put down here, I pretty much put it down because I know I need to ignore
that non-important stuff. Next up, we've got exercise. You got to get
the heart going. You need to get the body moving. Now, I'm going to be honest here.
I fell off the exercise wagon earlier this year. And, in fact, I didn't just fall off,
I think I fell under the wagon and I got ran over a few times. Point being is I'm now just
getting right back into this, so for me burpees in my living room.
[0:05:02] Yes, it's not as good maybe as going to the
gym and lifting weights. The point is, you got to get started somewhere. And that's what
I would emphasize even if you're just doing a couple push-ups a day. Yeah, you know at
the end of the year you may be only done 365 push-ups, but that's 365 more than the guy
that did nothing. And, let's talk about motivation. I find that
having a great playlist no matter how cheesy is just makes the workout so much better.
And if you're wondering about my cheesy workout music, I will link to it down in the description.
Now, the next part of my miracle morning and this doesn't happen every morning, but when
it does, it's amazing, I get out and go for a walk. Oftentimes it's just simply taking
the dog. My wife sometimes beats me. She takes the dog out.
Point is is getting out there especially when the weather is not good. When the snow is
on the ground and it's cold outside and it's still dark out, it's great to go out there
because you have that fresh air and it is clean and nothing really resets the mind like
simply being out in nature. I happen to live in a small town and we've
got nature all around us. Even if you're in a city though, going to a park just simply
walking around and being around others and getting in some of that fresh air, that is
key, guys. Now, in the book, Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
which by the way you can grab over at Audible, I’ll link to it down in the description.
He talks about silence, he talks about affirmations, and he talks about visualizations and how
important this is to his morning. I have to admit that I haven't fully incorporated
this. I do occasionally have silence, but it's almost on an accident. And, maybe when
I'm journaling and I'm writing, I'm actually, you know, affirming what I believe in. But,
I don't always go really long-term, although it depends on what journal I'm using.
And then, the visualizations, that's thinking about and imagining your end goal and where
you want to be. I'd love to hear from you guys down in the comments. Any of you guys
meditate and how has that been for you? I've tried it, I've stopped it. I've tried it,
I've stopped it. I want to get back into it. And that is going to be for me the three things
which I want to add to my miracle morning, so that I can start getting more out of my
days. Now, at this point you're probably wondering,
Antonio, what time do you wake up? What time do you start your miracle morning? 5:00 AM.
And, if you just said, oh, my gosh, that's way too early. Guys, go check out this video,
how to wake up at 5:00 AM even if you're not a morning person.
Why are mornings so productive? Because, guys, no one's calling you at 5:00 o'clock in the
morning with their problems. You have time for yourself. And I get into how you can start
waking up early in this video right here. [0:07:23] End of audio