Building A Morning Routine To Set Yourself Up For Success

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is over on perpetual traffic.

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com forward slash YouTube are more

along the lines of personal, development

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niche, not necessarily traffic tips.

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and I'm throwing this one out to you,

but maybe we can banter just a little

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bit here of some of the things that we

do on a day to day basis or some habits

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that have helped us get to that next

level of success, for me personally,

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talking about just what we talked about.

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I do a meditation every morning

called a gratitude meditation, I

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think it's either seven to 12 minutes.

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Unfortunately, I didn't do it

this morning because I had to

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rush off to the auto dealership.

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But usually I do it the

first thing in the morning.

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It just sets the whole day

and on the right path for me.

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Mindvalley was a customer

of ours for years and years.

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huge fan of Vishen Lakhyani.

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There's a lot of people that

you can follow out there.

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the apps that they have in there

is gratitude apps that you can find

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them on YouTube as well for free,

but definitely check out Mindvalley.

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Anything like that, that

sets the day on that path.

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it's continuously reminds you of

the things that you're grateful for.

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And by extension, the whole idea for

gratitude is what you put out there.

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You receive back more from it.

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So I'm a big believer in that.

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So that's one of the hacks

that I do every single day.

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There's actually an app.

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Friend of mine uses all the

time called the gratitude app,

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which is actually a cool app.

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I don't use it quite as much,

but that's one of the sort of the

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hacks that I start my day with.

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How about you, Kazim?

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I love that, dude.

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so you're talking about

my favorite topic, Ralph.

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You probably need to shut me up.

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I, publish my habit journey

every morning to Instagram.

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There's a story.

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I wake up at four o'clock in the morning.

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I work out.

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I do what I call deep work, which is,

visualization, affirmation, prayer.

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I'll read something that feeds my soul.

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Right now, I'm actually reading

the Bible, which is interesting

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because I'm not, what I would

consider to be theologically aligned.

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But it's a book that's

important to a lot of people.

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And I was raised Baptist, and so there's

some, call it indoctrination there for me.

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I do a sauna.

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I do a cold plunge.

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that's my favorite part of the morning.

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Yeah, we've talked about the cold plunge.

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I do a cold plunge every morning.

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I don't recommend the cold plunge,

the brand, if you're from plunge

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and you're listening, hear me.

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cause that damn thing breaks down so much.

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I've had that tech out to

my house six fricking times.

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but dude, there's

nothing like an ice bath.

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Like it's an, both just

mentally and physically.

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and I do the gratitude journal too.

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I actually, I was encouraged by a friend,

who's on this podcast, Christine Marie.

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I was inconsistent with it and so she

challenged me to write five things

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every day and I've been tracking

since she told me and I think as of

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this morning I'm on number 1, 415.

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Wow, which is fun.

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You know what I mean?

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I've, it's only been this year,

obviously, but, I think over time

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you'd start to extrapolate that.

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You'd start to build up things and you

realize how much you have to be grateful

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for it to the point that you made at

the beginning of the show and do it.

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I don't think there's anything better or

more effective you can do for yourself

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than wake up early in the morning.

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there was a really interesting study.

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It was a multivariant study of outstanding

successes across the United States.

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Every potential level of analysis.

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So they had CEOs, obviously

entrepreneurs, but also military

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generals and, Olympic athletes.

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And the one common denominator

among all of them is waking up

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two hours before their peers.

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And that's what really separated

it's a more productive timeline.

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Two hours in the morning is worth

four hours throughout the day.

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People aren't there to mess with you.

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You're, juiced up and hyperproductive.

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and dude, I'm a night

owl is the other thing.

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People are like, ah, that's easy

for you, you're a morning person.

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No, I'm not.

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if I had my druthers, I would live

my life at around 2am with a pot of

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coffee, a pack of Newport cigarettes,

a stack of books, and my journal.

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And that would be, that would just

be, that's heaven for me, Ralph.

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that is, I love nothing

more than going to IHOP.

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And sitting out on the patio,

and smoking myself to death,

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and drinking too much coffee.

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But all those things are ruinous

for your health, and so waking up

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early keeps me from doing Anyway,

that's more than you wanted to know.

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But that's my habit stack.

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And so to get up at 4.

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I know we've talked about this before,

but it's probably like the last

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time We did a live podcast together.

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We're going to try and do one next week.

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Cause we're actually going

to be in Cancun together.

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We're going to be like, I hope we can,

cause it's going to be all kinds of,

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super smart people there and bring a

lot of that juicy goodness over to a

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professional traffic hopefully next week.

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But the last time I think we spoke,

we talked about all the habits and

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what you do and to get up at four

o'clock in the morning is meeting them.

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Yeah.

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When do you go to bed?

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I know you've got young kids, but

is it like eight, nine o'clock?

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Is it that I'm in bed by

nine 30 and I'm asleep by 10.

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So invite by nine 30

read for a little bit.

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and then I'll be asleep by 10.

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And the other thing I do for myself is

about once a week when I'm done with

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my habits, usually like a Saturday

or Sunday, I'll go back to bed.

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So I'll do that whole stack that I

just mentioned, it takes me about

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two hours, two and a half sometimes.

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And then after my cold plunge, if I'm

still exhausted, I listen to my body and

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I'll go get another, hour and a half.

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Because I don't think you should be tired.

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But 4am arbitrary, it could be 2am.

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the important thing is just being able

to get up when your alarm goes off.

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It's like whenever it is you've decided

to wake up, that's the commitment

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and that's the habit to cultivate.

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The alarm goes off and I fly

out of bed and I keep, my wife

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and I keep our phones out of our

bedroom for weird hippie reasons.

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and I'll fly to my phone and I take a

picture of my watch and that's the very

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first thing I post to Instagram is bam,

4am, I took that from Jocko Willink.

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And so I think if you want to cultivate

a habit, maybe 4am is a little excessive.

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right now, but just go cultivate the

habit of getting right out of bed.

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Cause staying in bed, hitting

snooze, scrolling through your

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phone, like all that stuff.

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That's deadly.

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horrible way to start your morning.

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I jump out of bed, grab my phone,

take that picture, throw on

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my gym clothes, and I'm in the

garage where I work out by 4 or 3.

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And my workouts aren't great.

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been offered that criticism.

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Somebody on Instagram was like, is

that the best time to do a workout?

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And the answer is no.

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they're not exceptionally inspiring.

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It'd probably be better if I did it after

the cold plunge, cause the cold plunge.

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spikes your testosterone, but I like it

cause it's just a great way to wake up.

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you just instantly start moving.

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I thought you went to Orange Theory

in the morning, and then you'd

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have to drive and then go and.

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No, I used to do Orange Theory.

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Yeah, I go straight to the

gym, straight to the garage.

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I don't like leaving my house.

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it's inefficient.

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And the time you have to

spend is, it's costly.

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for me to go to the

gym, a 15 minutes ride.

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both ways.

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Yeah.

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it's a half hour time lost.

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but every episode though, you

could listen to you get smarter.

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A hundred percent.

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I could go back and listen

to previous episodes.

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I think you have to have a morning

routine to a certain degree.

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And I think yours is an extreme routine.

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I would suffice to say it's probably

more than most people are doing,

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but I think the idea of having a

routine that you stick to every day

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without fail is a recipe for success.

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if you just get up.

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I find this every time I get up at 5 a.

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m.

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I don't do it ordinarily.

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It's anywhere between 6 and and 6 30.

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I need more sleep than you.

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There's no doubt about it.

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And then I look at my whoop, which is,

the thing that sort of, I like, it's

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all about recovery and strain and sleep

and all these other sorts of things,

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which I really do like sometimes.

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I don't know how accurate it is.

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It tells me I need a certain amount

of sleep and it's more than six hours.

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A hundred percent.

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So I couldn't do what you're doing

unless I went to bed earlier.

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So you do you have to listen to your body?

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I think that's one of the things,

especially with the health

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issues that both of us have

had the last couple of years.

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It's like you do have to listen to your

body before I am working out is too

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much for you, then you shouldn't do it.

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Yeah, and I've taken things

too far to I've, learned that

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lesson a couple of times.

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So that's probably good advice

for everybody listening.

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the very least, the cold plunge idea,

like I swear to God, like this makes

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such a difference in my productivity

is doesn't work quite as well in

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the summer because the cold isn't so

good in the shower, but going from

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hot to cold in the shower, and we've

talked about this before on the show.

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It's a hard thing to do, but I did it

this morning than the plunge, for sure.

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Cause you have to physically

stand there and turn around.

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We've talked about that a little

bit here on the show before, but

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I'll tell you what, that wakes you

like you died on a cup of coffee.

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I'm a huge coffee guy,

like really good coffee.

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Like I am ready.

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For the day when I do that, at the very

least have some kind of routine, some

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of these apps are really good for it.

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Like I said, I have the dictionary app.

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So I learned new word every morning.

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Is that then I've got like this

gratitude app and then mind valley.

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and, or YouTube videos, there's

a six phase meditation by

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Vishal Akyani who I love.

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That's about 20 minutes.

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If I only have 10 minutes, I do this

other gratitude meditation by Tom Cronin

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who I really Some people can't stand him,

but I actually think he's really good.

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And he's also got a YouTube video,

but it's like starting the day that

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way your mind is just so clear.

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Even if you don't work out, I'm more

of a nighttime workout guy, but I do

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it in the morning when I'm traveling.

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I actually feel.

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So much better like next week.

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I mean you really work out right?

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you lift heavy weights.

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Yeah, I work out inspiring You'd

make fun if you saw my workout.

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it's about moving the body, I

think is the important part to it.

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It's if I get up and I have motion

immediately in the morning, I almost

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think like I'm getting that benefit.

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The cold shower definitely makes me move.

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I'm like, it gives you that jolt.

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So it's almost like artificially doing

it, but yeah, it depends on what types

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of workouts that you do really, but

next week when we're in Cancun, I'll

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probably be down in the pool at 6 AM.

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doing laps, which is great.

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I love that.

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Oh, dude, I'm cold plunging

in Cancun, by the way.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah, my EA, it's an all inclusive

resort, which means you can ask

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for really obnoxious things.

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And, my EA figured out that they'll bring

me the ice that I need in the morning.

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I'm gonna get the bags of ice brought.

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my god, that's awesome.

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And I'm gonna try to talk some Driven

members that are doing cold bath with me.

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So you'll be one of them.

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All right.

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that'd be like the perfect thing

for me to do, right after a swim.

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Yeah, so we'll coordinate on that.