Yesterday I promised that I would post every day, even if I spent less time creating the content. Well, I'm already procrastinating writing this because I don't have the pictures I want, and I'm already at the coffee shop and don't want to go home to take pictures of my place. So I'll make this quick.

My morning routine comes from various practices I picked up from Mindvalley: a platform with tons of practices and courses for self evolution. It has definitely improved my life. The All access pass is a part of my life every single day.

My goal is to go to sleep by 11:30 so I get my 7.5 hours of sleep. A sleep cycle is 90 minutes so I make sure to get enough sleep to complete a cycle:

7.5 hours * 60 minutes/hr = 450 minutes / 90 min cycle = 5 full sleep cycles

If I go to sleep later, I easily adjust it on my iPhone.

Immediately after waking up, I drink some nice spring water (I almost exclusively drink spring water, it's a cheap luxury that tastes better and makes it much easier to stay hydrated).

Then I meditate for 20 minutes using the 6-Phase Meditation by the Mindvalley founder Vishen which guides you through 6 super-beneficial practices:

1. Circle of compassion
2. Gratitude
3. Forgiveness
4. Visualize the future
5. Segment intending
6. A final blessing

Breakfast

Next I cut up lots of fresh fruit: usually mango, dragon fruit, and banana which are all local here in Thailand. I eat all this yumminess in the morning because Wildfit teaches that fruit digests much faster and thus causes digestion issues because of the differences. Then I have basically no sugar the rest of the day as my sugar monster is satisfied 😇

EDIT: I looked for sources about fruits digesting faster, and there seems to be little evidence for it. So maybe it is ok to have that mango smoothie in the afternoon!

And I eat my fruit as I watch whatever is my daily Mindvalley Quest.

That gets me ready for the morning. If I have a workout scheduled (yet another Mindvalley Quest, 10X) I will do that around this time, otherwise (like today)

And of course this being 2012, I look at my crypto portfolio. This morning I was sad that I sold COCOS at 1.40 and then it ran up to 1.87.

That still took longer than I thought it would.

I always want to give my readers information on why I chose a certain thing. Just blogging to answer a question doesn't satisfy me. However, sharing why I do a certain thing and links to other resources does give me joy. But of course that takes longer. Perhaps writing an article every day is less important than writing something consistently.

Thoughts?

♥️ shawn.