- Hey, what's up?
I am MuchelleB.
In this video I wanna share with you what I do to feel
motivated every morning.
When I was younger I used to stay up to like 2:00 a.m.
in the morning.
I'd be on tumbler.com.
I'd stumble to bed and most days especially
if it was a weekend I'd be waking up at 11:00 a.m.
if not later.
That was my life unless I had school.
Basically, I was the lazy, sleepy, member of my family.
Now every day I am waking up at 5:00 a.m.
I have a purpose, I have priorities set,
I am getting things done and working on my goals.
I feel like I am living proof that you can indeed change
your morning habits.
And in this video I'm gonna share my my learnings with you.
So a few easy things you can do right now to improve
your sleep is firstly, have a rough bedtime.
I just listened to a great Joe Rogan podcast.
I don't listen to Joe Rogan often but my partner does.
I'll link it down below.
It is by a sleep expert and something that the sleep expert
talked about in that podcast is that if you get under
seven hours of sleep it's been shown consistently
that you will have a lower function.
If you go to sleep at 2:00 and wake up at 7:00
for your job and you think that's okay, it's absolutely not.
It's causing a whole lot of damage to your body.
Firstly, turn off a whole bunch of lights in your house.
The lights in your house are keeping you awake.
It's completely unnatural.
Another thing that can be really helpful
is downloading f.lux.
f.lux is an app for your computer
that can basically turn your computer screen super orange
and it filters out all of the white light
so that you're not just blaring white light into your face
and telling your body that it's not time to go to sleep
because that can be really disruptive.
If you have an iPad or a phone, switch on night mode
and make sure that it's set so that it goes on
at a certain time every night.
I've been learning so much about sleep
in the last few months because I wanna create a quality
video on how to sleep better and all the information
that I've listened to and read has led me and Luke
to basically live our lives in the dark by 6:00 p.m.
The second thing you can do to feel productive every morning
is to have a vision for your life, for your year,
for your week and for your days.
I don't know about you guys but whenever I heard this advice
to create this grand vision for my future,
I have been in the past the kind of person that has flicked
past the pages of whatever book I'm reading or skipped
the bit of the audiobook that I'm listening to basically
looking for more actionable, nitty gritty advice.
But since I got intentional and I really put my time
and energy into creating a vision for my life,
I'm a convert.
Creating a vision for your life is possibly more important
than any of that nitty gritty actionable stuff.
There is really no point in learning more
about how to do do do and get things done
if you don't really have an idea
why you're doing all of that doing.
How'd that translate?
Fingers crossed I got my point across.
So think about things like what does your house look like
in five years?
Where are you living?
What have you learned?
How much money are you making?
What are you doing with yourself?
Put it all on one page and make it visible so an idea
is to chuck a vision board on your door
or to have your action plan as your desktop background.
One thing I will say about this is if your vision
doesn't fill you with excitement and motivation,
then you're not picking the right stuff.
My third piece of advice is to have some water
and feed yourself.
When I was younger I actually used to feel sick
eating every morning.
Even like a piece of toast or cereal.
I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
Instead, I would kick off my mornings reliably with a Milo.
But other than that, I would turn down any form
of nutrition before noon.
Over and over again, people told me how bad it was
that I was skipping breakfast.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
I was mucking around with my body by not eating breakfast.
Which is all totally debatable stuff
but that's another topic.
Slowly but surely I started to get myself to eat
a little bit every morning and now I am muesli gal.
Muesli is the easiest breakfast ever and I look forward
to my food as soon as I wake up in the morning.
So if you feel sick at the idea of eating
first thing in the morning I get you.
But if you're someone that struggles having energy
and motivation in the morning, food can do wonders.
When you think about it, when you sleep you basically
just starve yourself for eight hours so it's extremely
difficult to have the energy to do anything in the morning
if you don't fill yourself with nutritious food.
If you watch my four decisions that have improved my life
video, you'll know that I ditched coffee not that long ago
and since then I've been drinking so much more water
in the morning.
The days where I drink my big bottle full of water
versus the days when I forget and get swept up in something
I can notice the difference in my body and how I feel.
How energized I feel to get things done
just because I skipped out on a water.
Make your plans for the morning visible,
clear, and easy to start.
I cannot emphasize enough how important
it is to have a clear idea
of what you're going to do in the morning.
A clear vision for your morning.
Because waking up and then having to make a decision
about what you're going to do next,
how you're going to spend your time
is not a way to motivate yourself in the morning.
Pre deciding what you're going to do the night before,
writing it out, writing yourself a little plan.
You can do it hour by hour or you can just write
your little list of three things
that you wanna get accomplished
will allow you to just get up and do the thing.
No decision making energy required.
Make sure that you're getting specific
with your to do items.
So, write book.
That doesn't mean very much to your mind.
Instead say, open writing app, write one page of book.
To make things even easier for yourself, set things up
so that they're ready to go in the morning.
So open your writing app, ready for you to start writing
every morning so you don't even have to do anything
to get started.
I actually made a whole video on how to write better
to do lists so I'll have that linked in a card
and down below.
If you're doing work at your desk every morning
you might like my video
on how to create an inspiring workspace.
I will have that linked on the screen.
Follow me in Instagram if you haven't already.
Link down below.
I appreciate you guys so much and I'll see you soon.