Nick shares some concrete tips about how you can start your day in an effective way!
Nick opens with a brief greeting and states he will discuss steps to start the day. This chapter quickly tells viewers what the video will cover so they can decide whether to watch on.
Nick describes his typical morning rituals—listening to a meditation on Insight Timer, saying AA prayers, writing with coffee, doing yoga, and taking a walk outside. He also notes the Minnesota cold as context for those outdoor walks.
Nick talks about trying to avoid heavy phone use but sometimes slipping into checking Slack, email, and social media, comparing the urge to a past cigarette addiction. He also acknowledges being a creative workaholic and how new projects can pull attention away from intentional habits.
Nick explains that starting the day with prayer and meditation helps him stay aligned with his goals and take the next right action during the day. He finishes by summarizing these steps as his approach to beginning each day.
Hey guys, Nick Hanson from Cadre here. How are you doing today? I wanted to talk about steps to start the day. So the way I've been starting my day recently is I usually listen to a meditation on Insight Timer, this app that I really like for meditation. And I say a couple of prayers from AA that I know. And then some mornings I write while I'm having some coffee and sometimes I do a little bit of yoga and usually in the morning at some point I try to go for a bit of a walk outside, even if it's cold out.
I'm in Minnesota right now. It's definitely cold out. So those are some steps, you know, to start the day. I try to avoid too much on the phone. Sometimes I'm not very good at that. Sometimes I'll jump right into Slack or work emails or Facebook or Instagram. I definitely check social media way too much. It's almost like when I used to smoke cigarettes, feels uncontrollable at times. There's always a new thing. to face on this healing journey and certainly with a history of addiction, oftentimes one will take the form of another.
I also am a bit of a creative workaholic. I just love to get going on all kinds of different projects. But you know back to steps to start the day if I start my day You know kind of in that right way with some prayer meditation and kind of centering myself then within that day I'm gonna kind of stick within the general realm of You know sensibility to my goals and my and my purpose and I'm gonna know kind of what to do next the next right action as some in the recovery movement will say the next indicated action.
So yeah, that's some steps to how I start my day.
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