#295 Snippets of wisdom: The minimum morning routine.

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Agi Keramidas  0:00  
Welcome to Personal Development mastery podcast. And this is another snippets of wisdom episode where I select my favourite most insightful moments from previous episodes of the podcast. Today's snippet of wisdom comes from my conversation with Tim van der Vliet, who is a breathwork instructor and YouTuber. The snippet I chose to play for you today is about the seven minute minimum morning routine. It's about starting doing something yourself every day. I hope you find this snippet of wisdom as insightful as I have.

Tim van der Vliet  0:46  
I call this a dentist model. So we brush our teeth every day. And we go to the dentist once a year, or we clean up everything and we have a checkup and everything. Why do we have clean teeth, of course because of both. But minimum morning routine is like brushing your teeth every day for a minutes. This is the 80% 80% of your of having clean teeth is from brushing your teeth every day. And then once a year, you have to checkup and clean up everything. That's the other 20% you could say. So what I've seen a lot is people are searching for a lot of people don't know what they're searching for. But what they're searching and becoming a finder is basically starting doing something yourself every day. And this is what I call the minimum morning routine. And of course, consists of three pillars, as you said, it's exercise, breath work, and cold trading. Exercise two minutes can be longer, but two minutes is enough. Breathing five minutes can be longer, but five minutes is enough and ending your shower cold say for 30 seconds or a minute. That doesn't cost you any time. So in my philosophy, I have a minimum morning routine, which is that seven minutes that includes exercise and breath work. And a goal training doesn't call us anytime. And I have a maximum morning routine, which is as big as you want. It can be three hours. It is I have one day a week where I practice for two, three hours, including an hour of meditation and all that stuff, you know, like sending on my hands, trembling, jumping, running. The five Tibetan rites, you know, like yoga 45 minutes of breath work. It's really big. It's so big. That's a rationally big and the funny thing is you never have to get there. You move but your minimum morning routine is what you let's call it what you have to do. And a maximum morning routine is optional, and you flow somewhere every day between the minimum and maximum morning routine. The good thing of keeping it this minimal, is for example, yesterday, I was in the plane from Argentina back to Amsterdam. And I downloaded all these videos on on Netflix, you know a series that I'm watching about time travel, of course. And there were some good series too, but we're also flying through in today, you know, so I slept half an hour. And I come back and there's a bunch of kids, there's the full time job that I'm having here. I had to give a session you know, a two and a half hour session group coaching for for my crowd. So there's simply no space to to have a jet like I don't do jet legs. It's very simple. It's just a mindset thing. And I'm okay with even with a half an hour of sleep, and that's, you know, like my energy level now from being okay is compared to say seven years ago when I was a spiritual teacher, it's five times bigger. So even if I'm at 3040 or 50% Today, it's still way more and I'm 100% say seven years ago. And that is because of that minimum learning routine because if you do two minutes of exercise and five minutes of breathing, and I'm walking here in the streets of Amsterdam and I'm feeling a bit off because I slept only half an hour which is no more than normal. Instead of going into a story in my head like oh, it's because I didn't sleep is because I have a jet like you know, like we we we are making ourselves crazy with rational brain. We cannot live without it and we're living Wait, it is a challenge as well. But because I did my two minutes or my five minutes instead of going into, oh, I'm screwed up today because whatever story, I'm going like, I'm getting into that thought of our I didn't sleep await a demo exercise, I did my breathing, I entered my shower cold, I'm okay. So this is a mental thing, but if any limiting thoughts or call it a negative thought and sweat, but I did my exercise, breathing and cold training, so I'm okay. It's not a negative thought anymore. And that is the power of doing a little every day.

Agi Keramidas  5:47  
Thank you for listening. You can find the full conversation in Episode 208. The link is in the shownotes and I also have a free resource to share with you a catalogue of the best 10 episodes of the podcast in three main categories of life. So the top 10 episodes about money, the top 10 about health and the 10 about mastering your personal development. To get this free book go to personal development mastery podcast.com/top 10 You will also find the link in the show notes

Agi Keramidas  6:27  
until next time, stand out don't fit in