I had a dream about you last night. Yup. You. Reading this... (2-minute read)

I don't know about you, but when I start doing something new that I care about, or that excites me, like a new job or like this newsletter and it becomes part of my daily routine - and sometimes I dream about it. Today I dreamt about people I don't know who read my morning thoughts, and I am grateful that I get to do this. Thank you for reading. You're awesome!

Are you a morning person?

I'm one of those who starts his morning routine with a cup of coffee and then another one. And one more. 😅 😅 You get the idea.

I would consider myself a morning person now, but I wasn't always this pleasant ray of sunshine and delight that now my wife hates when she wakes up. 😅 Because she's not a morning person, and it takes a lot of energy to deal with my "brand new dick jokes I just came up with" at 7AM. My terrible humour is reserved for her, so I save the good jokes for the stage and my audience.

Before I quit my last "real job" and started my own business, I hated every morning waking up, and going to work, commuting, doing the whole routine every day to get me to a place where I have to spend the entire day not doing all the things I want to do.

I just couldn't understand why my dad would wake me up at 8 AM during summer holidays, all happy and full of energy, telling me to get up and go Carpe the fuck out this Diem. To be honest, he didn't understand that I was playing Counter Strike until 5 AM and went to bed around the time he woke up and had his first three coffees.

My morning routine

I don't wake to an alarm clock, I wrote about my hate of them in my first email: Breaking Freelance #001 - the "Why" ❓⏰ - if you missed that one. And I still wake up around 6:30 - I love the quiet of the morning and listening to the city waking up.

I make some coffee, and I start writing this email, followed by 15-20min of meditation. Benefits of meditation are plentiful and scientifically proven. And since I took it on, it helped me so much in different ways (read about them in the link above), but the biggest benefit for me was going from reactive person to proactive. And a lot of shit doesn't stick to me as it did before. It's hard to start, just like the gym. Start small, with 3-4 minutes every morning; it will be worth it. I promise you. Headspace App is a great way to start. Google it.

I write my tasks and goals for the day — both work-wise and everything else. I love the feeling of crossing-off something from a checklist. On Mondays, I do weekly goals, and then do course correction every day, because life happens. Sometimes I will update stuff in the evening if something came up during the day that needs my attention the next day.

Before I start working, I write three things I'm grateful for. First time I heard of "gratitude journal" it seemed like a load of crap, but then I heard that numerous people I hold in high regard are doing it, so I have it a go. It has lots of benefits, just like meditation, and if you think you have nothing to be grateful every day to write about, then you are precisely the type of person that needs it. Google "Gratitude journal benefits" and you can also find templates that can get you started. If you do this for ten days straight - let me know.

That's my morning.

What's yours like?

Cheers.

T.

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psssst... thanks for sharing! :)