If you follow me on social media you know that I start every day by taking a picture of my watch or screen shoting my phone as soon as I get up. I do this for accountability and leadership reasons. This is usually before 4 am.
People always ask me why I get up so early. “What do you get out of it?” they ask.
It’s not really what I get, it’s what I get rid of.
I have a lot of emotion and suffering within me, we all do. Getting up early and lifting weights lets me get rid of that emotion before something or someone has the chance to trigger me.
I have learned to harness these emotions and channel them into a discipline that creates something in the physical world, my own body.
I started waking up super early like this while living in a tent in Colorado in a Buddhist meditation center. It started all on its own and just kind of happened. Later I went on to find out that this is an ancient eastern practice called Brahma Muhurta. The idea is that the this is when the universe and the mind are most quiet and the wifi of consciousness is down so to speak.
I always seem my most clear minded at this time and do my best writing.
It feels like I am getting some kind of download that I have earned as a consequence of waking up before everyone else.
The western part of me loves the competitive edge I get from it as well. By 6 am I have already done my meditation, journaled, and done an intense weight lifting session for an hour. I have all of these things done and I know that most people haven’t even woken up yet. Every person I run into throughout the rest of my morning I know I am mentally tougher than, at least for that day.
People like to talk about self-esteem and confidence as if it’s something you can talk yourself into to. In my experience this mostly just results in a frustrating sense self-deception. The truth is you have to earn your confidence.
No amount of self-talk or positive affirmations will get through like waking up early in the morning and working out before everyone else. It just sets the tone for your day.
The corner stone of any behavior change in any area of life is always accountability. Commit to taking action!!!
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Andrew is a graduate of Wright State University and has over 10 years of behavior change experience working with a diverse base of clientele. He takes a holistic approach to weight loss and behavior change with an emphasis on Neuro Linguistic Programming.
Andrew is a graduate of Wright State University and has over 10 years of behavior change experience working with a diverse base of clientele. He takes a holistic approach to weight loss and behavior change with an emphasis on Neuro Linguistic Programming.
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