Ascent Life Ep. 6 - Morning Routine with Ski Guide J.T. Robinson
Guest: Skier, Guide, Entrepreneur, J.T. Robinson: http://www.jtrobinson.com/
Intro: Wake up, do hard things. What are you doing today to be the best version of yourself?
Today, I woke up at 5:30, prayed and gave gratitude, read “The Greatest Mindset” for 30 minutes, made some goals for the remainder of the week, lifted weights for 15 minutes, then walked on the treadmill for an hour.
I then showered and got ready for the day, and was at my desk doing focused work by 8am.
That is basically the morning routine goal. I rarely hit it. I often sleep in until after 6:30am, which, I have my phone locked out of apps until 6:30am, so when I wake before then, I have to manually unlock any app I want to use. That’s a pain in the ass, so it allows me to focus on gratitude, reading, working out…
When I wake up after 6:30, I jump on my phone, and BAM!!! There’s social media, and all the notifications, and an hour later I’m like, damn, I need to workout and get my day going… and I’m behind on the day for basically the day.
I have no boss. I have few real deadlines. The deadlines I have are mostly self-imposed.
So, what’s my motivation to get up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning, and be disciplined? It really is to just be the best version of me I can be.
Morning quotes: “Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The morning is wiser than the evening.” — Russian proverb
“Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.” — James Russell Lowell
“God had infinite time to give us… He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carpe diem.
As poet Robert Herrick wrote:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. Welcome to the show, I’m your host, R. Brandon Long and this is Ascent Life LIVE! We’re here with the mission to inspire 1 million people a day to live their best lives, and be the best version of themselves. That is living an Ascent Life!
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