Four daily practices to stay steady when markets shift: gratitude journaling with Five Minute Journal, morning meditation using Abide, building schedule margin by blocking time and keeping mornings free, and strengthening your community through church, masterminds, and business partners.
So there's a few things I want to cover here. Number one is a practice of gratitude. You need to employ some practice where you're regularly acknowledging all the good things that are happening in your life. And there's an awesome app called I got away from it for a little, from a little while, but I'm going to get back to it. And when I went to redownload it, somehow it went off my phone. So I need to, I'm actually going to write that down right now. Literally writing down five minute journal. It allows you to attach images to like the things you're grateful for and the amazing things that happened in a day. You do it morning and night. That, committing to that practice that one app and doing the morning and evening parts of it. In a 30 day period, your psychology will completely shift. You will be in not a scarcity mindset, not a like, oh, everyone's got it figured out but me. You'll be in a complete sort of content and fulfilled psychology and mindset just by doing that one thing. So that is gratitude. Number two is meditation. I've gotten really, really good at this. In the mornings I'm getting everyone together, right? Making lunches, feeding, getting book bags together, getting my kids in the car, my wife takes them to school. And I've got about 30 to 45 minutes where I am using an app called Abide A B I D, E where it's a, it's a bible, like a scriptural meditation app. And you can use any meditation app if you, if you don't share my faith. But I'm taking time to meditate for about 15 minutes and then I just sort of sit with some meditation music on, on Spotify for about a 30 minute period. And I'm just sort of clearing my mind and I'm just kind of getting ready for the day. I'm not thinking about what's going to happen in the day, but it's straight up meditation. And I'm usually it's, it's gu in the Abide app. So you can kind of, you can kind of think about the questions that are being posed or the scripture that they're using as the basis of the, of the meditation that is really, really powerful. And then number three in terms of emotional wellbeing is, is margin. And what I mean by margin is having enough time in your day to not have to like go back to back to back. And this is me preaching to me on this one because I am the worst at this. I've gotten better here recently where I don't take appointments before 11 o'. Clock. I generally am done before 5 o'. Clock. I do most of my work Tuesdays through Thursdays. Mondays are content days in the afternoon, Fridays are sort of a flex free day. And then I have. Obviously weekends are off. But I've learned about myself that if I don't have margin blocks of time where I'm not responsible for something, or I've committed to not be on my phone or to not be working and have a time block where I'm taking, taking my son to volleyball or spending time with the family or those sorts of things, it is not a good situation for me. Emotionally. I am stressed. I am bringing that stress to the family and nobody wins as a result of it. So that is number three. So the last thing I want to cover here, and this is something I struggle with more so than anything I have shared so far, is if it goes down any kind of major economic shift or worse than that, which I'll talk about my theories on that next week. You want to make sure that the community you're plugged into and the relationships that you have, whether it's in your church or in a mastermind where you share the values or the people you partner with in your business, that you're really taking care of those relationships.
