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Ok, alright. I feel a nice transition happening. Just a thought at the moment that is becoming more and more appealing. A new daily routine for weekdays.

Something doesn't feel quite right with my current routine. Mainly the exercise part of it. Exercising on a evening feels like the wrong approach for my body and mind. I'm naturally a morning person. I used to think the best use of all this morning energy was to code. But now I'm thinking, I should use this energy for exercise.

The biggest blocker I have had to this transition in the past it my current morning routine to have cacao, do mediation and breathwork exercises. By the time I had completed these activities, I was chomping-at-the-bit, want to start work. But now I thinking of moving coding work to after 09:00. I wake at 4:30. That gives plenty of time to wake, have a drink, do a great workout, travel to work and get dressed. And if I can't do all those things in 4.5 hours... Then there is some procrastinating going on somewhere.

Now then... This is a major shift in routine. So I'm not going to be too harsh on myself if I feel resistance. I'm going to write it all down and transition over a 3-week period. Changing routines can be very challenging. Your body naturally gravitates towards routine, What's safe and known. So every step of this is going to have to be a very conscious one.

A plastic mind. It's great to have a robust routine, but it amazing we have the ability to re-write our brains and change our patterns.

Knowing when something's not right I'm taking action to fix it.

How I Showed Up

Four scales recorded each morning — how sharp the mind was, how alive the body felt, how happy and how stressed.

Brain
4
Chill
Body
4
Slow
Happy
4
Flat
Stress

Morning Rituals

The daily rituals Matthew completed this morning before sitting down to write.

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