SUNDAY SPARK ⚡️ SESSIONS WITH ALEX MUIR!

And we're live Cadre. This is Sunday Spark Sessions with Alex Muir, the mindset podcast host, 6:30pm Pacific. And this episode of Sunday Spark Sessions is all about micro moments, micro moments of joy and why they matter. So a lot of us have difficulties staying in the moment, being in the moment, being present, and micro moments of joy. Right? Let's say we're dividing our our time, our hours, our minutes. Speak Wonder Rose, welcome. Welcome to Live. Andy Mac, welcome live. Thanks for tuning in again.

If this is your first time on my Live, I do Wealth Wisdom Wednesdays and Sunday Spark Sessions. So when Wealth Wisdom Wednesdays is on Wednesdays. Sunday Spark Sessions is today. I got an idea of them on 6:30pm Pacific. Samantha, welcome to Live. Give me a little emoji in the live. How you're feeling? How your Sunday's going? Was it sunny where you are? Give me the sunny emoji. Was it cloudy rear? Give him the give me the cloudy emoji. Was it raining? Give me the rainy emoji in the comments. Let me know.

But again, the rest of August, talking about savory moments, talking about being in the moment more. And one of the strategies that I like to use, oh, it's rainy speak wonder. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's kind of overcast, cloudy where I am, but like savoring moments. Savoring micro moments. A micro moment, for example, to help illustrate for you would be like, you wake up in the morning and you're really, really excited, ecstatic, in fact, about that cup of coffee, if you like coffee, or the act, simple act, and the routine of brewing your tea, if you like tea, it is I'm a lot of us are creatures of habit.

Luke talked about his wife being a creature of habit. She likes structure, she likes routine. And I'm very similar. Like, I, me and my wife are very structured. We, we like our, you know, she got she wakes up a little bit earlier than me in the morning. She works she wakes up 6:30 in the morning. I wake up usually 7, 7:30, sometimes a little bit later, depending on how late I was up the night before. Right. Getting work done or how optimized I was, how optimized we were. And one of the favorite things that we love doing is morning smoothie.

Morning smoothie we make the night before. So that's a micro moment of joy that we love that I make this smoothie because my wife loves it, I love it, and it gives us our nutrition for the morning. And I get boom, I get energized, we get energized to tackle the day right. And it's quick. It's a quick hit of protein, it's a quick hit of nutrition to start your day off right. So that's a one micro moment of joy. Second sorry. If you can hear my dog barking, Second micro moment of joy would be brewing your coffee in the morning.

Brewing your tea in the morning. That I get so ecstatic about that in the morning because I love. I drink coffee. I don't know if you guys drink coffee and give me a coffee emoji. Dog's name. Oh, dog's name is Pino. Speak Wonder Pino. Like Pinot Grigio wine. Me and my, me and my wife came up with that name because we love our wine. My wife's favorite wine is Pinot Grigio. We like our red wine too, but I don't like white wine as much as my wife does. But yeah, but we came up with that name kind of on the fly and we're like, oh, we love it because it's like P I N O T.

Pinot. Yeah. So, but Micro. Yeah, Pino. Yeah. Everyone loves. Every time we tell people, they're like, oh, really? It's such a cool name. Oh, coffee. I love it. I love it. Let me know in the comments. Everyone, coffee or tea? I'm a coffee drinker. I love the smell of coffee. I love it so much. We were at Walmart earlier, shopping, getting our groceries for the week. For the week, preparing for the week. And someone's like, I just had to say it. I was like, oh my God, that coffee smells good. And I don't know where it was coming from, but my nose is.

Was absolutely heightened my sense of smell because I can always smell coffee brewing. And then someone laughs around the corner. They had it in their hand and they had McDonald's coffee. And I was like. And then they laugh and then their wife is just like, oh my God. Like, it is really good. Or the guys like, it's really good coffee. And then the wife's like, yeah, it's great coffee. So we had a good chuckle about that. But. But yeah, I love it. Andy Mac. Love it. Speak. Wonder coffee drink is awesome.

So it's just. It makes you feel so good, right? These are things that we look forward to. Micro moments. Another thing that I love to look forward to in the morning. Let me know in the comments. Do any of you meditate or do any of you like to read? Get that sharpening of the, of the mind first thing in the morning or some people like to exercise. Give me a, give me an exercise emoji, a read emoji or a meditate emoji, like, or yoga. Yoga too. Let me know in the comments if, if you guys like to do your movement first thing you read first thing.

Or even a business suit or business suitcase. I think there's a business suitcase emoji if you like to do. You work really early on your business before you work really early on work before you start before you start your workday or on your business before you start your workday. Wordle. Love it. Nice. Yeah. Brain teasers are like, like Scrabble. Love it. Morning pages, journaling practice. Yeah, I've heard morning pages is awesome. I think Tim Ferriss does morning pages too. He said that in his four hour, four hour, four hour work week book, I think.

Yeah, that's awesome. Okay, we got journaling, we got wordle. Wordle. I think there was someone else. I think there was someone else that tuned. That tuned into the live. I can't remember her name. Oh, Samantha. Is it Samantha K. Samantha K. Or someone else? Let me know if you're comfortable in the comments. m. again, we're talking about micro moments of joy that we'd love to do that we wake up, we're like, oh, h*** yeah, I want to do that. Or I look forward to that. That would be okay. We're talking.

We got reading or we got morning pages. We got journaling, we got wordle. Love it. For me it's meditation. If I was to put down, if I was to be in the chat, I'd say meditation, emoji, exercise. Right. I like to do work and meditation first thing in the morning. Rose. I love it. Yeah. Oh, cold plunge, cold plunge and sauna. Okay. From the emojis, I got cold plunge and sauna and then a workout. So workout, cold plunge, sauna. Love it, love it. In that order. Even better. Gym, sauna, cold plunge. Okay.

Gym Sonic, then cold plunge, praying. I love it. That's awesome. Sweet. Yeah. So again, these are micro moments of joy that we're creating. And when we do these things, when we create these routines for ourselves, were creating leisure that you got it off the emojis. Yeah. You like that? I know my emojis. I always joke with my wife all the time. I love emojis. When we were first started dating, we were, I would, I was always like, you know, I would text. I was, you know, in my text, I text, but I would always add an emoji.

I try and be more descriptive with what I was saying with an emoji. So was just more, I don't know, I don't know, emotional, I guess. I don't know. Or descriptive. But it, I love, I just love emojis. It's fun, but that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. So what else? What's some other things? Yeah, there's so many different ways you can spin your morning routine. Yeah. So we got, we got prayer in there that could be like thank. Right. Thanks. Emoji. What else? What else? Again, these are all micro moments of joy and why they matter.

And I would say why they matter because it sharpens this and makes this feel more whole. Right. Sharpens your mind, makes your body feel better too. You're releasing stress before the day even starts. So even if you had a crazy day the day before, you're starting your day off right. Because you're baking in, building in those moments of joy that you really. Things that you really love. And when we bake in those things that we really love, that we're really passionate about, we show up better for those that we love.

We show up better that for our teams. We show up better for our business partners. We show up better for our kids because we're showing them that through self discipline and routinizing our, our leisure, our fun, our, our ways of improving our mindset, our physical being, our health and wellness. That's saying that's hitting the stage, that's setting ourselves up and that's showing, showing through doing that we're capable of things beyond our wildest imagination. And we're doing it in bite size micro moments per day.

So. So it's super. Hey, Anmar, welcome to the live. Thanks for tuning in. Happy to have you here. It's super helpful to think, to think, like to break down your hours that you have into moments. Right. It's not easy to do. My wife's taught me how to do it better and others that I've learned from too, to be more present, to be more mindful, more thoughtful. And one, one other thing, I'll probably talk about it in another live, but one other thing that's super helpful is cutting down the tech time.

Right? Like we're doing like this live and I'm doing myself, doing my content, but I kind of had to dial back my content a little bit because sometimes I get consumed by it, sometimes I obsess about it, sometimes I'm like on it 24 7. And sometimes we need breaks from it or maybe not breaks from it. But like, let's say I'm going on a walk, right? I have my phone in my pocket, but I didn't even look at it the whole time. And sometimes when me and my wife are on a walk and we're talking and stuff, I still have my phone and I'm looking at it and looking at my emails, looking, and it's just like it takes away from me being present.

It takes away from our time. So I've been trying to be way more intentional and enjoying those micro moments when we're, you know, bantering back and forth, when we're having a nice walk, when we're walking the dog. It's important, it's important to take time away from our tech. And as much as technology is like an enhancer and it is, you can talk to people all like all over the globe, virtually anywhere in the world. But sometimes we just need to be intentional with how much time we're spending on it because it can, it can definitely hurt our mental health if we're doing, if we're on it too much.

And so I've had moments like that where I've like been on it too much and, and so it's like sometimes like just, just, just leaving my phone home for an hour when we're on a hike or just leaving when we're at the grocery store and then it's coming back just having those extra moments away from it. Micro moment of joy. Flip flop weather. Yeah, flip flop weather. That's a great, that's a great idea. Yep. Another thing, if they had, if they had it as an emoji, like sweatpants, I love wearing T shirt and sweatpants because it's like Sunday spark session Sunday sweatpants Sunday.

So because it is getting a little bit cooler, it's going to heat up again, but at the temp dropped like 10 degrees in the last couple days because we've needed rain and there's lots of forest fires near, pretty close to us, not super close, but they're on our radar, so. So the, the rain is helping with that, which is good, like small amount, but hey, got to take what you can get. But yeah, flip flop weather. Yeah. So yeah, that's what I wanted to say. Micro moments of joy. We all want it. We all want them.

We all want different micro moments of joy. And they are so helpful when we bake them into our schedule and routinize those micro moments and ritualize those micro moments. They help enhance our life. They help enhance our mind, our body and our soul. So thank you for tuning into this Sunday spark session. My name is Alex. Host the Mindset podcast. I help individuals flex their mind, body and soul through brain and body optimization hacks. If you're new here, if this is the first time meeting you are meeting me virtually.

I also post daily on my YouTube channel at mind dash set, on my TikTok channel at mine set. Forest bath. Love it. Speak. Wonder. Yeah, Forest bath. Hiking. Being in nature. They are. They said being. Being outside for an hour in nature, in the forest, like forest bathing is the equivalent of one hour of meditation. So that's pretty empowering. That's pretty powerful. So that's why me and my wife try as much as possible. Like, we're in the summer. Summer's almost done. We try and hike like at least three times a week because there's a lot of good spots near us, like trails and stuff.

And I, I kid you not, like the sleep. Our sleep that same night is so much better because we get out in the wilderness and with our dog and see other dogs interact with other dogs and. And then it's bonding time for us and our pet and then us together as a couple. So it's great. So hope you guys enjoyed this live. Stay tuned for Wealth Wisdom Wednesday. Lots of content I'll be drumming up for September and happy to have you all here. And if you want to see any other content that I create, I do recipes, I do body training, mind training, soul optimization, hacks on Tik Tok and my YouTube channel.

So thank you all for tuning in and have the sh. A fabulous rest of your Sunday and a great week ahead.