I guess it's finding what brings you joy. It doesn't have to be anything extravagant, like it can literally just be something that's five minutes that brings joy to your morning routine because when you think about it, like life's too short to not enjoy your every single day. Hello and welcome back to the Rise and Conker Podcast. It is your host, Georgie Stephenson. As some of you may know, I'm currently on maternity leave, so Tim and I are soaking up the newborn bubble and new parent life with
our little baby girl. But I did not want to leave my ron C fan with nothing, so we are bringing back the best bits of the Rise and Conker Podcast. We have nearly over two hundred episodes, so I thought it would be a cool idea to bring you snippets from the most listened to, the most talked about episodes and just give you the best bits in a mini episode. So be prepared to get straight into juicy topics, to feel inspired, to feel motivated, empowered, and of course informed.
These episodes are shorter, but they're just full of the best bits. If you did like this mini app, make sure you go to the show notes where we have linked the full episode, and I just want to say I really appreciate you guys still supporting the show while I'm taking some time off to enjoy Baby Girl, and I just can't wait to be back in your ears with fresh episodes in the new year. We have been planning the next season and there are so many exciting
guests and surprises coming up. So I really hope you enjoy this mini episode. Let's get straight into the show. So let's get into it. These are five things I always include in my morning routine that just make it magical and like just set me up the day and is a serious form of self care. So the first thing,
which I think will be no surprise, is movement. I talk a lot about this and movement in the morning has just become routine for me because I have always noticed how much better my day goes, how much better I feel when I do movement in the morning. The second big block is gratitude. Now I'm not gonna lie to you guys. This is something that I always try to do, but you know, like sometimes I slip out of habit and I don't want to sit here and be like I do this every single day when I don't,
but it is something I try to do. If I can't write it down, I will try and think about it, and so when I can, I do a gratitude list of three things that I'm grateful for at that point in time in my life. The next thing that's really important to me is setting intentions for that day. So, as you guys know, I always do a to do list. I do my to do list after Jim, after my shower, before breakfast, so I write a to do list on the most important things that I have to do that day.
For me, again, that's about getting really clear the purpose of that day. It's like looking at my priorities so I'm not messing around and wasting my time. And then also I find it helps me stress less because I'm that person who I will have a million things going in my head, so until I actually put them down on a list, I will feel a lot of anxiety. And usually once I put them down, I'm like, oh, I actually have got that much to do, like it's
all good. The next thing that's really important for my morning routine is having breakfasts. Of course I want to say like a nourishing breakfast, but sometimes that's not the case. But obviously just getting some substance into my body so I, you know, can think and start my day. The next thing I do is I make sure that my morning has connection in it. So this connection can be either with myself or with others. Obviously it varies each morning.
And I really enjoy that connection time just with another human being where you just like chat about pointless stuff, but you feel connected to someone. So this might be for you when you first get into work and you have a quick chat with your colleagues. And so another thing is connection with myself. So you know those days where you kind of just you wake up and you just feel very almost like you're floating and very airy fairy,
and you don't feel grounded or connected with yourself. When I feel like that, it's really important for me to find connection with myself again. So I'm a big advocate for meditation. Again, I don't want to lie to you guys. I don't do this every single day. I probably do this four times out of the week, which I still
think is very good. And I just use that headspace app or I'll do like a guided meditation and I will just do five to ten minutes of meditation or self reflection, and I find that really grounds me and it is very important if I am feeling stressed or flustered or just not feeling that connected to myself. The last thing that I think is really important and that I do do every single day is I always make sure there is some sort of joy or something I
love in my morning routine. And I think this is important because if you enjoy a habit, it's so much easier to make so I find when I'm putting joy into my morning routine, I will stick to it a lot easier. So, for example, at the moment, a big thing that I do that gives me joy in my morning routine is I listen to a podcast or audio book while I'm showering and cooking breakfast and getting ready
for the day. So kind of like those in between times when you're having a shower and then you're putting on your makeup, and then you're getting dressed and then you're cooking breakfast, I will have a podcast or audiobook playing. So I guess it's finding what brings you joy. It doesn't have to be anything extravagant, like it can literally just be something that's five minutes that brings joy to
your morning routine. Because when you think about it, like life's too short to not enjoy your every single day. And I understand if you don't enjoy work during the day or anything like that, but it's so simple to just bring five minutes of joy to yourself in the morning. I think you'd be surprised how much you can really change your mood. So yeah, that is like the five blocks that I always included my morning routine. Thank you
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