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and i'm here with my co-host rob glasser
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he's also my son welcome to mind your
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mental health we talk about mental
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health teach the importance of inclusion
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and share why we should be kind we hope
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to see you each week as we talk about
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those topics that shape mental health
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today so whether you're here live or on
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replay let us know where you are tuning
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in from so our topic today is about the
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benefits
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of a healthy morning routine
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so rob
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good morning
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yes at 12 30 in the afternoon um yeah
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good morning to you as well um so as you
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know and anybody knows me routine is
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what i do i got a routine for the day
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and i gotta say routines are
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the best you know and if you are a
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youtuber you will know that many people
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are sharing their morning their day time
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their their routines
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so what is a morning routine so morning
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routine to me and i'm giving you my
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definition here
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is what you do to get prepared for
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your your day so to speak
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it could be little things it could be
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big things um and you'll come to find
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that when we share our routines that
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some things we do are pretty normal you
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know almost everybody doesn't and then
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we have some things that might be more
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specific to each of us
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now interesting enough actually read
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this this morning this is a pretty old
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idea um and i just told you this earlier
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the first known description of one comes
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from the 1700s and wow would anybody out
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there prefer to guess who it's from
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i mean it's kind of funny
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no
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but it is from the
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the man we know is benjamin franklin you
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know that guy that famous guy in the
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government
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um so not only did he invent lightning
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i'm just kidding um
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so the first person to have a diary so
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to speak was was him
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um and the article i pulled from inc.com
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says that we while we might expect a
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litany of exercises and activities
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franklin instead gives us little more
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than an airy glee
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he basically wrote he'd rise he'd wash
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and he'd address powerful goodness from
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there he moved on to urgent business
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scoping out the day
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and at some point in time he grabbed
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some breakfast
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maybe granola bar i don't know what they
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back then but who knows
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so that's kind of funny to think because
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we're gonna see and maybe learn that
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it's not so different today from the
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1700s
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um now i mentioned a minute ago that i'm
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a big fan of watching the youtubers who
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do this
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and some of the things that we do now
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came from
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some routine that i actually
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you know that i looked up
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so i know if you're ready do you want to
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go into our routines sure you want to go
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first
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all right cool
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so my morning routine uh fairly simple
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so it's from rise to about 10 a.m yes i
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know i start late but that's when i work
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so first thing i do is i make the bed
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doesn't have to be fancy doesn't have to
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be perfect
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just fluff the covers move the pillows
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there's a there's a lot of talk out
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there that
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just making your bed in the morning if
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you just do that that sets up your day
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for success
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interesting we talked about on the
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meditation video uh the the monk that we
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went over one of his things is you make
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your bed just just do it all right so
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afterwards i grab you know after doing
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that go in the bathroom really quick do
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a quick wash to wake me up and then it's
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right out to our exercise so this is one
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of the brand new ones that we've done we
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haven't done this before we've actually
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been doing it for
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actually almost a month now on the 15th
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it'll be exactly a month so that's kind
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of cool um and we pick a
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aerobic or a somewhat high intensity now
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i know it's early in the morning you can
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only do so much with your body but they
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say that if you do something like
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aerobics you get your brain pumping your
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heart all that or your brain working
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you're heart pumping i did that last
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time too
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uh so i think you have the name of the
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person we uh watch a girl jana fit
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has
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a slew of short videos like eight minute
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videos that are perfect for us because
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my wife does start earlier than i do and
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then she has some videos that are 20 30
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minutes so let's say in the afternoon
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you want to pick me up she has 30 minute
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videos and all it is are very easy
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exercise routines
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after we do that uh go back to the
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bathroom do my actual wake up you know
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brush your teeth comb your hair all that
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good stuff you know things that most
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people already do
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because you kind of gotta look when
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you're on camera presentable right
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you know get dressed do all that
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make myself look good
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do that from there we go downstairs eat
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breakfast but we're doing it without
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technology now now she has to have her
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phone on because her company is
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different uh areas so there's always
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somebody sending a message but when it
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comes to
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tv
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or random texting we keep
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the phones the tv off and just eat we
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don't necessarily talk sometimes we do
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but it's nice to just kind of sit eat
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your breakfast enjoy the moment
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and not have much else going on
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and that's fairly new as well we used to
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go down there and you know me i'm a tv
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person i turn the tv on i have to watch
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i'm like you know what i don't think i
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need to know i think i'm just gonna sit
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eat my cereal whatever
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and go
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um from there
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that's when i pop on the phone or the
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computer and do my research for the day
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so whether it's prepping for my videos
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whether it's grabbing a new topic for a
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video or whether it's seeing what people
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are talking about in my niche whether
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it's fandom whether it's mental health
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everything in between and i spend a
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little bit of time doing that
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uh i then go upstairs with my wife we do
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our first of two meditations our morning
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meditation and that could be anything
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from you know the call map like you do
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uh insight timer kind of whatever we
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find on youtube as well so not only do
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we use her for exercise but we'll use
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youtube for
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finding a good meditation channel
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and then from there it's about time to
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start my first video so
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i am fresh
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and ready to go so how long have you
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been doing a morning routine when did
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you start doing a morning full-on
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probably mid-august uh really making me
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do it there are things i did obviously
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you know the the brushing teeth the
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stuff like that that just you do
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regularly but i wouldn't count that as
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as a good um
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habit routine whatever you
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um
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i would say it's been like i said i
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think september 15th will be about a
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month when we've done
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the stuff
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and i gotta say even just in the first
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two weeks of doing it so if you uh uh
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the first week after doing it in august
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i was like
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i feel good yeah this is the difference
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right
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you know you yeah it's it's kind of
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interesting um about having morning
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routines i've been doing my morning
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routine since
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2014
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and it is
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and evolved but it started with uh a
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book by the name of the miracle morning
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by hel
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hal elrod
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it's been written in 37 languages around
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the world wow and
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multiple different versions of this book
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like the miracle morning for teachers
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the miracle morning for real estate
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brokers but in my case it's just
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the miracle morning what i like about it
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is the structure but even within the
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structure rob i've changed that as the
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years have gone on so
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something called savers it's an acronym
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i'm gonna put the uh the thing up so you
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can see it as i'm talking about it
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savers is an acronym so the first thing
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that i used to do i don't do this
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anymore as my first thing but is is your
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silence and that would be meditation in
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my world it would be meditation so i
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tend to go have a glass of water take my
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vitamins and do all that and then i sit
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down and i do my meditation and i do
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lots of different meditations i use the
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calm app i use insight i don't use
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youtube because i close my eyes and i
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always want to look at the youtubes it's
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a you know it's a visual thing so i tend
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to do the audio or sometimes i'll just
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put music on and just meditate so that's
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the first thing that i do the second
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letter is affirmations things like i am
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grateful
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i am blessed i am
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superwoman i am i am and the reason why
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i do i ams you know there's a reason
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there's actually a theory around the
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words i am that you don't say i want to
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be
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you say i am because our minds think in
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the present and so if you say i am you
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are you literally i am grateful in this
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moment and you and so i encourage people
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that when you're doing affirmations
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do it in the present tense so if you're
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doing an affirmation that um i am
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a
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good coach
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instead of saying i want to be a good
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coach you're saying i am a good coach
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put it in the present's hands so first i
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have meditation and then the
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affirmations and the affirmations lead
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right into visualization why because if
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i'm saying i'm grateful i can literally
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close my eyes and visualize what i'm
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grateful for
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or the people i'm grateful for or if i'm
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whatever that is so it kind of goes
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hand-in-hand affirmations and
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visualizations
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then exercise so in my case i walk the
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dog i i take the dog for a walk every
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morning whether i want to or not whether
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i want to get out because as we all know
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you and i was talking about how hot it
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is here but i'll get up in the morning
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i'll do everything and then i'll take
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the dog and christopher you know my
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puppy knows that we're going every day
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and if i don't if i'm sitting there not
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going what is he doing he's like on me
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wanting to go so i do my exercise and
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then the next thing i do is read i like
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to read every morning like 10 pages it's
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not too much it's not too little i read
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10 pages and then finally and we were
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laughing about this earlier the s is for
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scribing i guess they couldn't come up
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with a word that meant journaling or
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writing a letter so scribing in this
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case is journaling so i did mention in
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the beginning that my morning routine
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has changed rapidly and i would say that
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in the last year or so i get i get up at
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four in the morning that's my thing i
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get up four in the morning and i do this
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at four in the morning i sit down i ha
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after my water and whatever i will put
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my bose headphones on so it blocks all
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the noise
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i will meditate i will journal i will
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then walk the dog i will then come back
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i will do my reading
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so it's not the same order
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but it all well it's funny to say about
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the changing because one thing that i
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always like to do is see what i can
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implement
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along with what i'm doing obviously not
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overdoing it but one thing that's
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important is seeing what else you can do
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because as i mentioned
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you learn about what other people are
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doing whether it's maybe you know a
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supplement there's one person who did a
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routine that changed their gut and
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manage their gut health and while part
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of it was was vitamins a lot of it was
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actually exercises you do to help your
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gut some of it was you know obviously
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you're changing diet so i like how you
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said the changing or the
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change because if
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you you know me i don't you know that i
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don't want the same thing every day so
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while i do have my regular thing once in
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a while it might be fun to add something
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so maybe i will start a journal once in
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a while maybe i will do a little reading
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i gotta see what works for the time
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frame i have and then as i mentioned
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beginning my entire you know day is the
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routine so let's say it doesn't go into
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the morning maybe i'll throw it in
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somewhere else so you don't have to
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necessarily
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get rid of it you can
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you know and i think we say multiple
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times work work around you and see what
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you like and
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yeah yeah exactly and if you don't like
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it don't do it do something else yeah
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and it's all about the habits and
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actually the the subtitle for the
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miracle morning is the six habits that
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will transform your life before 8 a.m
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one of the challenges that i've heard
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about people when they were looking at
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this is like how am i supposed to wake
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up at four i don't wake up at four or
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six or five or whatever
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and that is a challenge so i'm going to
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challenge you rob
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actually i'm going to challenge you you
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can accept it or not but maybe start
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your your morning a little bit early and
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see what happens when you do that for a
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few days you know just a thought just a
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thought you know i i would be okay not
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not so much her but i'd be okay doing
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that um but yeah no i it it does make a
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difference even even if it is you know
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now we're doing it around
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let's say 6 45
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right that's still a difference from
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whatever was before you know usually it
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was eight
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you know what i mean so exactly exactly
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and i think the message that both rob
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and i want to get out to all of you who
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are watching and by the way we're
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talking about
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healthy morning routines now our morning
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routines may be at lunch time it might
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be in dinner time whatever whenever your
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routines are we happen to do them in the
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morning we'd love to hear what your
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routines are if you have a morning
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routine put it into the chat we'd love
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to see it and if you're on live let us
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know i'll pop it up on the screen so we
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can see your um what you do
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actually what you do but the message
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that rob and i have is that
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we all can create what works for us
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neither one of us are saying take notes
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right now and you need to go get this
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book and you need to do this first and
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do this that's not what we're saying
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what we're saying is is that it is
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healthy
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to have
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a routine of habits that you do
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why is it healthy it's healthy food our
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emotional health right
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yeah and actually in the order that i
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wrote it down
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uh helping emotional and then helping
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physical because you know if your brain
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is good the rest of you is good
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um so how does it help well i mean i
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think we've kind of already explained
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how it does
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um if you do good you feel good i feel
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like that's a yogurt commercial
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somewhere um
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but if you you know if you get in the
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habit of doing it or you get in the flow
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whatever word you want to use
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uh your brain's going to go hey i can do
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something i got it uh there you go i
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like waking up early the alarm is early
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enough or
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rob likes i'd be happy waking up earlier
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but you know that's that's a different
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conversation but rob that's important
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because we if you have a partner
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significant other or that special
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someone that doesn't
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kind of meld with your routine that's
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okay really that's okay don't figure it
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out figure it out you do you
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yeah exactly yeah but amber you know i'm
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i'm very happy to have her do with me
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you know we do the extra in the morning
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together we do the afternoon exercise
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together we meditate together so it is
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nice having a addition somebody
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especially somebody special to do it
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with you because it makes you want to do
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that much more
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um and that goes also to the emotional
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too because when you have a good reason
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to do it when you have a good bond to do
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it
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your brain is like hey this isn't so
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hard this isn't bad this is fun let's do
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it and if that's the case then why won't
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your body feel good too right if your
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brain is happy your heart your lungs
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your liver your all your organs whatever
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there's too many um
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and yeah there are things like the
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exercise that help you physically but it
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also you know it's not just the physical
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it's the it's the
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internal how how it makes you tick oh
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endorphins they're called endorphins
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thank you yes when you exercise if you
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are stressed and you decide i'm going to
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go out and i'm going to exercise you
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hear that all the time for my mental
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health get out there and exercise for
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mental health
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the endorphins kick in and all of a
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sudden whatever you were stressed about
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before
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starts to ease because the endorphins
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kick in i think that's how their
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correlation right that's how they
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connect in some ways yeah i mean uh it's
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yeah that's exactly how it goes if if
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all parts of your body need to be at one
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to do its job so if half of the body's
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not
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up to its thing the rest of you is gonna
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be a little
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so in order to have your body doing what
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it's supposed to you got to make sure
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all its parts are working it's like a
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car you can't have a car with half the
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parts working you got to make sure
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everything's running so
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you get it checked up
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it's a word you know but you know what i
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mean you get it checked up you make sure
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everything's going the gears are turning
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and that's how you know that it ruins um
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and you and i have similar things even
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though we don't do the same exact things
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they are very similar we exercise we
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meditate
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we might um
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listen to maybe i read maybe you don't
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read but we have similar things and i
16:53
think that
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again you do you but you would i my
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suggestion is is that for all of you who
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are watching and you've never done a
17:00
morning routine if any of the things any
17:02
one thing sounds interesting start with
17:04
one thing your morning routine can be
17:06
one habit and that morning routine can
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be i get out of bed and i make my bed
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that might be your morning routine start
17:13
with something small there is nobody
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that's saying you have to jump in and
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all of a sudden be a master meditator or
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a master journaler or you know you're
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that's not it and i i think that that's
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a really important message that we have
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for all of you who are listening is that
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you figure out what works for you
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and then build on it
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yeah definitely
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so we want to make sure that um
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azure as this is a show about mental
17:39
health and we want to make sure that if
17:41
you are listening and you need some
17:43
support there are a couple of websites
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out there that you can check out
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nimh.nih.gov you can also check out nami
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and finally um the
17:53
988 number that is relatively new you
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can call in they can route you to
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anywhere that you are if you're having
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some mental health issues you are not
18:03
doing well call the number it's also
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good for veterans you can use that as
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well as rob told us a while back
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um let's make sure you know how to
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follow rob you can follow him on his
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website at alta universe live you can
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follow him on linkedin at rob glasser
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he's also known as altered universe on
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youtube which has really great videos as
18:23
well as on twitter at altered universe
18:26
without any adam one and i'm on karen
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glasser everything any last-minute
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thoughts rob about the importance of
18:34
having these morning routines
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um yeah i would just say uh when you
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start out i think when i was doing my
18:41
research it's the mindset
18:43
doing the activity is not going to
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change your viewpoint right you put
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yourself in that mindset so while you're
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doing these things
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appreciate them enjoy them you know
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think about it so really the importance
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of a routine is not necessarily just the
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routine
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but you got to get your mind in the
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right spot
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right to keep it going
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and i bet if you track this not you rob
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but people who track this when you do
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this like you said you've been doing
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this since august
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get yourself a little journal with lines
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and start just ex each day that you do
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something check it off
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so that you can you can remember that
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you did it number one and number two
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you're proud about it and that you've
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done it so just start so our message is
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just start minding your mental health by
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creating a healthy morning
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set of habits
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as always we're thrilled you joined us
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today whether you were live or on replay
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go out give somebody an awesome day and
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we'll see you next week on the next oh
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you know what before we say goodbye we
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have a special mind in your mental
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health next week we have a special guest
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oh yeah yeah we are inviting on uh rob's
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brother my son we're gonna the three of
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us we're talking about photography and
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it helps in your health your mental
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health and matthew is an amazing
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photographer so stay tuned join us next
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week go out give somebody an awesome day
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and we will see you next time goodbye
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everyone
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