Ep 325 - Motivational Monday - Power of a Morning Routine

Hey, everybody. Flip and Danny here, founders of the Freedom Real Estate Group family of companies. And welcome to another episode of our.

Podcast, which is called Freedom through Passive Income.

That's right. And welcome to another motivational Monday, the power of a morning routine.

Yeah, you remembered.

I got it.

Good job. I practiced, so I thought that this was good to talk about because it's something that we've always had different morning routines. And very recently, probably for the last month or two, especially with our dive into fitness and health, all of that has started to really build a stronger morning routine in order for us to fit in the workout. Because we were trying to figure out where to fit in when we started. It was like, oh, we can work out at like 3 in the afternoon. And so because my mind is always just on right in the morning and I want to dive into work because it's just there. Anyways, it's ultimately ended up that we kept on missing the afternoon workout that we said, okay, forget it. In order for us to accomplish this goal, we're going to have to change how we approach it. And so then I stopped having morning appointments and allowing us to say, hey, we've got until 10am because we're not doing anything else. It's us first prioritize us first, and our health first. And let's create this routine so that we can do it without the stress of an appointment or cause 10 was like a cushion. Right. It was a very good, like, if we wake up at five, so that gives us five hours, which is insane, but it calmed my anxiety. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because we just had enough time to do it. And then if I got to my computer earlier than 10, that was a win. Right. So now I feel really good about the day because I did everything I was supposed to. I put myself first and. And I started early. And so I got this additional boost of excitement and energy and fulfillment. So this is what I wanted to talk about today. So I know that you have a shorter routine than I do because I actually created a full checklist of all the things that I want to do.

Yeah, mine's shorter is because mine doesn't involve as many moving parts as yours does, but, yes, it's the same process.

Yeah. So part of this podcast is to, number one, kind of talk through what we went through and why we changed our morning routine and why it's become so important and the things that we had to remove to make sure that we were successful in putting ourselves first. And the message of having a morning routine is saying, you're putting yourself first, right? You are a priority and taking care of you allows you to take care of others and do a better job at whatever career you have or the other things that you have in your life that are goals or things like that. So that was the first thing. The second thing was to kind of share and talk about what the morning routine consists of. Because everybody's morning routine is. There's actually a book out there called Miracle Morning that we have both read and it gives you an example of a routine. I found that somebody else's routine is not necessarily something I'm going to embrace and keep up with because I don't embrace it. I ultimately had to come up with mine. And I'm a checklist type person to make sure that I do it because I want to feel good that I did it. I also want to hold myself accountable to doing it. Otherwise it's very easy to go, I'm going to do all these things and then forget one of them or two of them and pretty soon you're just not doing them. So I created a big checklist that I go through every single morning. My work checklist actually says at the very top because I pre planned my days, what I'm doing. My very number one thing says morning routine score. So I have to, if I forgot or if I ran out of time, I have to hold myself accountable to going, crap, I got a goose egg or I did half of it or whatever it is, but that's on my work list. So that this prioritization, me personally doesn't lose its luster or excitement. Because I'm just telling myself this is doubly important. I'm not only going to do it, I'm going to hold myself accountable. The first thing I do, the workday.

It doesn't surprise me that you keep score.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just who I am.

So the checklist. It feels good to be able to check this off every single day. So I'm just going to give you some of them because some of them are just more personal and related to me. Right. And this is what you should do too, because I add things to my morning routine all the time or change things going, hey, I don't need to do this anymore. I think I'd like to do this. And it's mine and I embrace it. So the first one is really both of us, 5am alarm.

And then that's a dog alarm that does not have a snooze button. That's right.

Yeah. So we're getting up at 5am we used to wake up at 4.30am but when we moved to Florida, we just decided, hey, 5am I think is sufficient. And so we changed it. So that's our wake up time and then we take the dogs out. I don't have that part on my checklist. I should though, I get to check.

It off, feed the dogs and take them off. When the hurricane was here, that was a workload.

Yeah, it was. And I also put on this 5am alarm. I put up no later than 7am If I need more sleep. So if there was a night that I just got a bad night's sleep, I'm giving myself enough grace that I can still jump back into bed after taking the dogs out and feeding them and sleep until 7am and I still feel like I'm starting the day okay and I get to check it off and feel good about myself. Because that's what you really want to do. You're promoting wins, right? You're giving yourself positive deposits in the morning to start your off day on a positive note. So I'll go through. We're already getting into the time, so I'll go through some of the other stuff. Obviously I brush my teeth. There's this prepare, shake that we make or drink, stretch, workout, cardio. I want all three of those done. Shower, eat, breakfast, vitamins and supplements. A five minute journal where I write down three things I'm grateful for. Three wins for the day and three wins for tomorrow. Sometimes that particular item is done in the evening, but I've added it to my morning to see how I feel about it in the morning because it does put a focus right. I pre plan my day, but this reminds me, what is it? What are those three things? And it gives me this grateful juice in the morning instead of at night. And I think both times I still have it on my morning routine and nighttime, I've left it in both. I have some mindset stuff that I have in there that I read every single morning. Like the very first one is I get to manage myself first. My happiness and my success is all directly linked to managing myself first every day. And that was a really important statement for me to read every single morning because I've never done it right. Right. I always just go to work and you know, I'm here to build the business. I'm here to take care of other people, including our investors and all. And I'll give myself, you know, I'll pay myself back sometime in the future. And so that was really important. For me to stop that and really put myself first so I do a better job for everybody else. And then there's a ton of other stuff. Read one chapter of a book and update our nutrition doc that's on there as well. Stephanie will be thankful that I do that every single day. And I do it because it's on this list. 10:00am Start work. And then right underneath that is a picture that I loved. It says, speak positive words into your life every single morning. Think big, Think healing, think success, think peace, think happiness, think growth. Mindset. Always start the day with positive energy. You deserve it. And so those are the things that I do every single morning. And it just puts me on this cycle of goodness right immediately of waking up. And it's been a game changer for me. So I wanted to share it because I wish somebody else would have said, here's my morning routine and make it your own and here's why it's so important to me and how it sets me up for success for the rest of the day. And so I decided, decided I'd share this today. So what's your morning routine, Flip?

Well, mine's evolved over the years, you know, I mean, at one point, like you'd said, we had done the workouts in the afternoon and then we just would never do them. Yeah. So I keep putting my workouts back in the morning and at one point it was, it was a wake up. You know, as I'm getting out of bed, I'm putting on my workout clothes and I'm just going straight to the workout room. And the dogs kind of got rid of that plan because they want them first.

Yeah.

They did not like me not taking care of them before going to work out. So with dogs and then it sort of evolved where I want something that when I wake up that I'm going to be excited about doing. Now some people, there are these people out there that are excited about working out every day. I think they're called weirdos. Just kidding. But I am not one of them. Even though that we do this now. And when I wake up, the first thing that is in my head is not, oh, I want to work out. No, you know what, I could just go for a cup of coffee in some sports center and you'll get me out of bed every day.

Yeah.

And so I get up and we feed the dogs and then I grab a cup of coffee and I sit on the couch and I watch Sports center and usually with the dogs because they come back to the couch and cuddle up and it's just a nice. I like the chill morning wake up. You know, it just ease into the morning and then as soon as that coffee's done, then I go and I get, I do the prepare and go, go do the get on my workout clothes and I go work out. And it's, it's worked out for me so much better because when I wake up, I'm like, I get to have coff in SportsCenter. Even on a night when there was just crap for sports on, I still enjoy watching SportsCenter. I don't know why. It just. I do. But anyway, so, you know, it's taken a while to get to exactly what I want and now it's exactly what I want.

Yeah. And I think it's important to know too that it's okay when you can't do your morning routine right. There's going to be days where you can't do it. The point is to keep doing it as often as you can. Like this morning we had a 8am meeting that we had to do and by the time that we woke up and addressed some things that we needed to address early on, I looked at my watch and I was like, I don't have time and it's gonna be stressful. Right. And the last thing I want to do is start my day off in stress mode. I would rather skip parts of my morning routine to again create a winning start to my morning.

Yeah. Rest of the day. Yeah.

So it just, it lifts off on a positive note. And not minding that I didn't get to work out today, but that's okay because I still feel good and I will work out tomor.

That's right.

So I think these things are like really game changers. Right. If you just go after it and don't get too critical of yourself as you're trying to figure out what your perfect routine is.

But the Miracle morning book is a good book to read too. It helped out develop that process.

It sure did.

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