We recorded our podcast at 5:30 in the morningI am writing this just after we recorded our podcast. We recorded it at 5:30 am in the morning, it’s now just before 8am and I have already recorded the podcast, recorded my daily video, responded to my social media interactions and for most people, they are just getting up and I am now starting to write my blog. This allows me to do what I need to doSo I usually do get up early every morning to get my coaching pieces done. This allows me to do what I need to do before other things come into my day and start eating up my time. You see this allows me to work on my vision and my mission to get coaching into peoples lives, to help spread the message that you can achieve what you want to achieve if you commit your most valuable resource which is time. No matter how wealthy you get you can never ever buy yourself more time. We all have limited amounts of it and since I’ve been getting up early I’m much more productive and feel much more on point when I start my day. I’m ahead of a lot of people because most people don’t wake up at 5am. I was like that about 2 to 3 years ago, so I always felt that I didn’t have the time to concentrate on my own self-development. This early morning routine allows me to concentrate on me, and what I want to achieve, then when I step into my day I’m much more resilient, I’m already fully alert so when problems land on my plate I’m much more effective in the way I deal with them. I also interact so much better with people because I’m fully engaged and awake so I can give people my best self so I can help them achieve their goals through the power of coaching. I always thought I was a night personIt never used to be like this. I always thought I was a night person, and now since switching I don’t even set an alarm any more, my body is so used to it that I wake up naturally. I start stirring around 3:30 am to 4am and then I get up. I now find it very difficult to have any type of lie in. I have to make an effort to lie in and when I do I really do have to lay there and feel uncomfortable! I have a purpose and I have a missionWhen I reflect on that as I’m writing it’s because I have a mission, I have a purpose and I’m really excited about stepping into my life and working on my passion which is coaching. My coaching journey has lead to creating the podcast, my daily videos and has really given me a whole new perspective on life. This is what living a coaching lifestyle has given me, that excitement in my life which you get at times like Christmas when you’re a child excited about opening presents. Most days are like this (but not all), of course, my world isn’t perfect and there are times when I don’t feel excited. But most days I’m raring to go and want to get on with my day and that’s because I have found my purpose and my mission. I have found the thing I was built to do and I want to share this with you and the world. Most successful people get up early!I study success, I have countless coaching books and also look at what successful people do. Most successful people get up early. One of the first books that really started to make me aware of getting up early was a book by Hal Elrod which was is called The Miracle Morning. At that point in my life I was not getting up early but I was into self-development. So I started getting up early because of that book, now it didn’t stick the first time. I went through a patch of getting up early say for two months then I would slip back. The thing that worked for me was really bedding in that morning routine and knowing I was accountable for something. This is when I decided to do a morning video every day. Now I have this accountability it makes me get up, I have a purpose I have a mission and I’m excited about my life. I have to be honest I’m not excited every morning, but having my morning routine gets me excited and gets me to a place where I feel more motivated than when I first woke up and that’s the key. Through the routine, I change my state of mind and it goes from a negative place to a positive one. My anxiety subsides when I execute my morning routineIn the morning I wake up and can feel quite anxious, but by waking up early and executing on my morning routine my anxiety subsides and this allows me to get done when needs to be done. This has helped me be a better husband, dad and has generally given me more energy. The reason for this is I’m giving time to myself, to work on myself and to see progress. I don’t feel that I’m just going through the motions of life I feel I have direction and purpose and this is why getting up early has huge benefits. Yes it’s different to what most people do, and of course, it’s one of the things that successful people do, that’s the key! If you want to give this a try then have a go at this:1 - The night before plan to get up early. Have a routine planned out whether it’s 10 minutes of meditation or doing say 10 minutes of exercise. Whatever it is, it has to be a routine that you want to do to make you get up early. 2 - Get up at the time you say you are going to get up. If you say to yourself I’m going to get up at 5am then get up at 5am. Don’t break the promise to yourself because you will be letting yourself down and that creates negative habits, so stick with it. 3 - Make sure it’s sustainable for the rest of your life. This is not a short term plan, it’s a lifestyle. If you want this to stick it has to be sustainable for you and this means doing it every day. Of course, you might have one or two days where you don’t do it. but you must get back on it the next day because the more you let it slide the less likely you are to continue. This is how you form good habits! |
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September 2021
AuthorJoe Noya, founder of JN Coachingtechnologies. Categories |