Mastering Morning Routines for a Productive Day

In this episode, we dive into the importance of morning routines and how they can set the tone for a successful and productive day. Whether you're a natural morning person or not, establishing a disciplined routine can make all the difference.

We explore the benefits of getting to bed early and preparing for the next day the night before. From organizing your work essentials to planning your meals, these small steps can help you start your day smoothly and efficiently.

Discover how a well-structured morning routine can help you avoid the morning rush, beat traffic, and be more productive. Learn from personal experiences and practical tips on how to make the most of your mornings, be present with your family, and achieve your goals with consistency and discipline.

Join us as we discuss the transformative power of morning routines and how they can positively impact your work and personal life. Don't miss out on valuable insights and actionable advice to help you start your day right!

Episode Transcript

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Good morning. Jumping on here to talk about actually morning routines.
Did you have one this morning? How was it? Did you climb out of bed at the last
minute, a bit of breakfast and straight out the door?
Or were you up this morning having a meditation session and getting really prepped
for the day and having a great day?

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So I've done both in some ways. I'll chat about them in a minute here and we'll go from there.
Music.
So, I don't know if you're a morning person or not.
I am not really, if I was to say. I don't know too many people that are,

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but I have started to get a little more disciplined in my morning routine.
And it does, it starts the evening before really, and that is getting to bed earlier.
So when I had a few guys more working for me earlier,
maybe one of them didn't turn up for work or couldn't make it in
i ended up going out during the day to do

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his jobs and then at the evening i
would be up all hours then catching up on all the
admin work that the business growing business
requires so doing survey or writing
up quotes or bids and sending invoices
and checking where everyone's going to be tomorrow and stock
and all those sort of things so yeah so i've been up to

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the early hours of the morning and then when six o'clock comes around
in the morning it's hard when you've had four four hours
sleep not advisable at the minute things are
a little more relaxed and i try to get into bed for 11 o'clock at night i am
up at five o'clock that's out of choice and i've got into routine now in the
mornings where i will get up and first thing i'll do is get a cup of tea and

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i will I'll have a Bible study,
I'll read my Bible in the morning and I will pray and that will.
Take up at least half an hour, about 30 minutes, sometimes a little longer and
that just sets me up for the day.
I have a faith and I'm a Christian and for me that is important to do.

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For others, it may just be sitting in silence and just contemplating your thoughts
and trying to get yourself awake and focused for the day or meditating for a
bit or just relaxing and just being still really.
So I get up early because it's before the kids get up and the house becomes

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alive and harder then to sort of find this quiet time of the day.
So it's been something I've been doing from January.
It's been really, really helpful.
And thankfully, I've kept up with it. Monday to Friday, that is.
I do lie in a bit on the weekend.
So Monday to Friday, it's working well and just gets me in the right frame of mind for the day.

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So after that, then, yeah, let's actually jump back just to the night before.
So yeah, getting into bed at
a decent time will definitely give you those hours of sleep that you need.
The other thing is then what can you get prepared for the following day, the night before?
So that may be if you're out in the van or you're doing work,
then what are you doing for lunch the next day? Have you got a sandwich made?

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Have you got whatever whatever snacks you're having.
If you're in the fitness and you have a protein shake to take first thing in
the morning, do you have all that set out, measured out, ready to go?
So there's these things that we can do the evening before, like is your uniform ready?
You know where your boots are, work boots are, your clean shirt, whatever it is.

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You want to get all these things sorted the night before if you can and make
that time the night before.
So not that you lie in then the next morning, but if you can get up early and
maybe it's doing a workout the next morning everyone's different but i would
advise you try and get the the night before sort of make sure you know where
you're going again if you're out in the van,

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obviously if you're in the office and you're doing
admin your day looks different but if you are out
in the van and you're doing the work yourself or
you're going around other guys you're doing the work then if you
have all that nailed the night before where you know
you're going where you know everyone's going you're not clambering
in the morning to try and work out where you're one

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of your employees is going to be starting and is that
gate going to be open to let them around the back of the house and all
these things so preparing the night before I've found has been helpful getting
that sorted means then when you're up in the morning you can have time for yourself
and then as the family wake up if you're family then you have I've time to sit

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and eat breakfast with them.
Chat to them about the day that's coming up for them without getting
running around looking for you
know your schedule that you've written a bit of paper or what tools
you're looking for if you can have your van sorted the night before
if you can have your lunch sorted your uniform
sorted your schedule sorted those things will really

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stand by you in the morning and why what what.
Is the problem with then just getting up later and
just just sort of winging the day and winging in
it as far as really just going with the
flow of the day well i find if if you're up
early you have all those things sort of the first thing that i
find is that you can get out a little bit earlier and in

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our case then it means that we can beat the morning traffic the
rush hour traffic people going to work and school and to
sit in traffic for 20 minutes is just a waste of time so
if i'm leaving my house at half seven
then it means i can be on my
first job at eight o'clock while other people are
still commuting to their day and that means if if things

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go well that day then i can get finished up earlier as
well in the afternoon maybe heading home at
four half four i'm again avoiding that traffic
that's going to hit about five or half five so
if you can get the morning started well you get
out get onto the job then it's going to help you throughout the day I think

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there's also with me anyway I find that if I'm on a job early and I look at
the my phone for the time and it's it's 10 o'clock and I know I've already done two hours of work.
Yeah it's it's motivating it's productive you're starting to make that money
earlier in the day so if you have a setback during the day well time's on your

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side really I've also been in the,
Other situation where maybe you didn't do the admin the night before and there's
a bit to catch up in the morning, you've slept in a bit or you've just kept
hitting that snooze button on your phone,
which I was awful for doing, especially up until January, I'd say.
And then you're out, maybe leaving the house at 8 or quarter past 8,

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you've sort of rushed around in the morning, haven't been present with your family.
And and it's just a bad start to the day that
you then haven't organized your stock for the
jobs that you need and maybe you have to call to the the suppliers
to pick up a few parts and there's a queue there so
then you're you know you're standing in the queue and you're like oh

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i wish i had been out here earlier and you might waste 15 minutes
doing that and then you've hit all the traffic of
the day so you could almost be starting the job at
half nine and and then a couple
hours into your job you're looking at it's nearly 12 o'clock so that's
the two options I really like the
first one it's something I'm speaking to myself here because

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it's especially getting started the night before especially
being present with a family and in
the mornings and we sit down have breakfast at the
table which again I enjoy but
if I have to rush then I'm standing in the kitchen shoveling something
into me quickly before get rushing out
the door so I've been been in both situations the first

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one definitely works best for me and I
think with discipline and consistency you can
really get that in the habit a lot of these things are habit you make a good
habit and you you will form good habits you will form bad habits and this is
definitely for me a good habit a good start to the day an early start to the
day that's that you get going at the job get through the job, get paid quicker.

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And you can squeeze in then another job even, or start another job.
So I believe your revenue will go up with this.
And yeah you just I feel more productive I
feel more motivated knowing I'm getting on it early harder in
the winter of course with the darker mornings and
yeah colder and you know you're putting on

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the layers to go out into the cold for eight hours
but again in the summer it's bright five o'clock
and it's bright and it's good to get on it and we'd advise
you to give it a go anyway definitely would
never have described myself as a morning person still i'm
trying to work through that and feel it's a lot of it's in our mind i think
and how motivated we are and what our goals are and and all that but yeah it's

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it's good to make the most of the day get out into it early don't don't be lying
in yeah and when you work for yourself of course there's no one gonna if you
if you don't get out of bed no one's gonna force you out of bed there's no one you have.
To answer to as far as what's going to be ringing you
asking where you are at nine o'clock and yeah so
there's that discipline that's self motivation you

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have to be motivated and you have to want it and
yeah so try it let me know how
it goes and see if you can and yeah and
as well one last thing as i
said earlier the the hitting the snooze alarm was
awful because you'd wake up when it originally went
at six you would knock it well i would knock it off for 10 minutes

(09:57):
it goes again at 10 past six it's like
having to wake up all over again knock it again 20 past
six and and then you know you have to be out by half six
and and it's just no fun get into the
habit it goes off once now and i get out of bed
and that's it and yeah it can be tough and it's
not easy every morning and do enjoy that extra few hours

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in the saturday i've got i've got
two young young kids so seven o'clock is a lie in now but
yeah give it a go let me know how it goes we'd love
to hear from you any feedback on that and hopefully
it helps so thanks again for listening and i say any other questions or queries

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you have any other thoughts or on topics that you would like to do thank you
for subscribing and thank you again for listening talk to you soon,
Thank you.