Shawn Buttner breaks down how morning emotions set the tone for your whole day and offers four tools to shift them: physical activation, sensory cues like music, acts of kindness, and connecting to a larger purpose. Small annoyances like misplaced keys or early meetings can spiral into anxiety, but intention and practice rewire your response.
We talk about concepts, things, and personal development and high performance that'll help you make your day awesome so you can build the life that you want with daily habits and daily tactics and tricks. So today we're going to be talking about how we make our day with our intention and our ability to create the feelings that we want. Because if you've ever, like, woke up and something small completely throws off your day, right, Maybe you got off on the wrong side of the bed and, you know, you can't find your keys, and so it sets you off into a spiral of anxiety and angry emotions. Or maybe your spouse or kid or family member or housemates just a little too chipper before that cup of coffee or before you've had that time to wake up. And, you know, maybe, you know, had this idea like you're a night owl and in a world of early risers and, you know, the world really discounts the fact that you need to wake up at noon or that when you wake up before then that it's going to take you a little bit to kind of get into, you know, being a full human being and not just like a, you know, zombie of reaction. So if you get up in the morning and you feel frustration or annoyance or you have a case of the grumpies, maybe, I don't know why I said it like that, you know, if you're just grumpy. But if you have these feelings as a high performer, it's your job to transform that into productive energy and into how you actually want to feel each day, with intention. Because, you know, you can acknowledge those feelings that aren't maybe ideal or that's how you feel. You want to bite everyone's head off before the second cup of coffee, maybe in the morning. It's a little bit like me. It takes me a little bit to kind of have all the systems come online. We can't let those feelings spoil the day. And so how can you shift your energy? It's really all about having a tool set tailored to you that you can shift your energy with habits or with things that, you know, can. Can help elevate the mood or create the. The mood and feelings that you want. So how can you do this? It's moving your body, right? It's stuff that we talk about all the time in high performance. You know, exercise, going out for walks, doing some stretches, doing some breath work, activating your body. It's knowing what elevates your mood. It could be a playlist that has the feeling that you really want. So if you're really into music. You can have the, like, angry, productive music. You can have the, like, chill, happy music. You can have the creative ambiance like classical box station or whatever it is for you. You could do a quick meditation. You can do an act of art that something you create that just brings you a little bit joy or gardening or the like, right? It's knowing the people around you that you can cheer on or appreciate to get out of your head so you're doing something good for someone else. And that feeling of, oh, I made a positive impact in someone even when I'm grumpy, you know, that type of action can help switch the direction of your day. So doing that early in the morning, appreciating someone, cheering them on can really help. And before I say the last point, you know, a lot of managing your energy is what I help people do as a coach. And so you can always go to shroudwater.com coaching to, you know, sign up for a free strategy session. If you struggle with feeling buoyant, with feeling joyful, feeling confident in that you can manage your day and manage your emotional energy. You know, we have tactics and tactics in all of these points that we've talked about just now and the next one that I'll make, but it's all aligned and it can really help you perform at a higher level. If you find yourself getting stuck in the same feeling every day and you're like, I need a change. So check that out. Seanbutner.com coaching the last point, last tool you should have in your toolkit is to know and connect every day with your mission, with your service, with your purpose, and placing that above all the things that might, you know, trouble you. So if you're feeling grumpy in the morning, but you know that, that you need to build that homeless shelter because that's, you know, you're helping the homeless. That. That's your thing. Trust in that and discount that grumpiness is going to get in the way of serving the greater good, because sometimes when we extend those benefits to other people, you know, family members, our communities, our. Our big goals and aspirations that can give us the perspective to say, this is not going to define me. This feeling that I have right now is not going to find me. It's time to perform. It's time to get into action. It's time to do something greater. And a lot of times you get that in your head, that grumpiness goes away and you're like, oh, yeah, I got this. So we all need tools to help us manage and shift our energy, because the day is made by our intention and our ability to create our emotional states. So hope you enjoyed this, guys. I'll see you tomorrow for Ask a Coach a Question. If you have anything that you're struggling with, any topics you'd like covered can at least direct message me or comment below this video. I'll review those before the Friday show or go to seanbutner.com backslash ask or check the link in the bio for all of this. And that can help you. You know, you ask a question and I'll talk about it. So I love doing that for you guys. Building the community. See you then, guys. Take a.
