Wake Me Up: Morning Positivity - Morning Routine - Small Habits, Big Life (Premium)

Episode Date: July 6, 2020

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Thanks so much for listening, and I hope you have a fantastic day. Good morning and welcome to Wake Me Up, the podcast where morning people are made. As always, I'm Tyler, your host. And I'm really excited for this episode. It's the 50th episode of Wake Me Up, and it's a small milestone in what will hopefully be the long life of this show. Because of that, I wanted to do an episode which has been requested by, a lot of you, and it really gets to the heart of what this show is about. Today's episode focuses on how simple habits are really the key to living the life you want.

However you define happiness and success in life, the little habits you have are what will allow you to live that life. Now, let's get started. We'll begin today's episode, like pretty much every episode of Wake Me Up. We'll take the next few minutes and slowly get out of bed. All you need to do is follow along with my voice. First off, go ahead and open your eyes if you haven't already. Let some of that morning light in and use it to help fuel your energy for the day.

Now take a deep breath with me. So inhale, hold it at the top for just a second. And then exhale. Let it all go. Now feel free to take some light stretches in bed, move around and loosen up in any way that feels good to you. We often place a lot of focus on the big moments in life, like graduations, promotions, marriages maybe.

But it's not every day you have a big milestone in your life. Most of our days, on the grand scheme of things, are somewhat mundane. Studies show that half of all human cognition is the execution of habit. loops. And some studies suggest it's even 90%. Humans are habit-making machines. Most of our habits are pretty small, though, like your bedtime routine, how you drive your car, or the food choices you make. It's the culmination of these little habits that add up day after day, month after month, and year after year. And they create the real momentum in our life. Habits are engines. They move us forward, inch by inch. The milestones we reach in life are the result of executing those habits over and over.

So it's important to consider what habits we have. In a large part, they'll determine where we end up. So as you lay here this morning and you're starting your day, think, broadly about the type of life you want to live. What are a few of those big milestones that you'd like to accomplish in life? And once you know what your goals are, you can begin to think about simple, daily habits that you'd need to execute daily in order to reach those milestones. And keep it really simple.

You don't need to make big leaps today. Small, sustainable steps will get you much farther, much faster. It might be as easy as committing to show up to work on time every day. Or just drinking your coffee black to cut down on sugar. You have to make those decisions for yourself. And we're all going to be a little different. Because we all want different things, and we're going to get them in different ways. But if you commit to small steps each day, your success and your happiness are inevitable.

So now, let's go ahead. and get up. Take a deep breath in, and as you exhale, just roll over in bed. Bring your feet around and place them on the ground. And then stand on up.