6 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Supercharge their Morning (E128)

Notes: Start off the day with water1 literChill the night before5 minutes of silencePray, meditate, or just breathInsight TimerCalmJournal5 Minute Journal5 Minute Journal QuestionsMorningI am grateful for…What would make today great?Daily affirmation. I am…Evening3 Amazing things that happened today…How could I have made today even better?Leave it on your nightstandLeave the pen insideReadJust a few pagesKindle is greatLeave it on top of your journalDo not consumeNo emailNo newsNo social mediaPlanTake time to plan your dayProductivity PlannerMost Important Task of the dayImportant Tasks of the WeekKeep the pen insideKeep it next to the journalI prefer pen/paper, less distraction Sponsors: Drip – Get a free demo of Drip using this coupon code!Spark Shipping – eCommerce Automation Transcript : Charles (00:00): In this episode of the Business of eCommerce, I talk about 6 tips for entrepreneurs to supercharge their morning. This is a business of eCommerce episode 128. Charles (00:16): Welcome to the Business of eCommerce the show that helps eCommerce retailers start launch and grow the eCommerce business. I mean, it was Charles Palleschi and I've had today had talked about six tips to help entrepreneurs supercharge their morning. So I'm a big fan of frameworks and routine and having a certain way of kind of going about your day, where you kind of know this works for me, here's a pattern and his kind of a way of doing something to know to start the day on the right foot. So I've kind of lined up six steps and this is stuff that I personally do. And I think it's super helpful for entrepreneurs in general, but also anyone that just wants to start off the morning in the right direction. And this kind of just built up a time. So let's get into us. So tip one, always start your day, drinking water. Charles (01:07): I know this sounds ridiculous, but I always start my day by drinking a liter of water. Very first thing, some things to make this easier is a night before I have a very specific water bottles. I put them in the fridge, chill, the water they're actually I use the soda stream. So my whole family knows these are my water bottles. It's two of them kind of my thing. And that makes it, so I know in the morning they're in the refrigerator. I like cold water. They're ready for me. So there's no thinking involved. And that's kind of one of the big things with this. There's no kind of decision making. I know I'm going to wake up. Very first thing I do is go grab one of these bottles, put it in the soda stream. I like the bubbles of carbonation or just have regular cold water, but just do the same thing I found before most folks. Charles (01:57): And I was doing this for a long time. Starting my day off with coffee. You're already dehydrated from sleeping the night before. And when you have coffee, you kind of further your dehydration. So you starting your day off this very dehydrated state going deeper into dehydration. The coffee gives you a quick little boost, but very quickly you start to crash because you're dehydrated and then you usually compensate by coffee. So by the time you start working at this point, you're starting your day off this at this extreme, low, this kind of dehydrated. And you're trying to dig out of this like dehydrated whole how else to explain it, but you're already like in, in a very bad place. And then you're trying to play catch up the whole day. And a lot of times what happens is just so tired and you work at, you know, eight, 9:00 AM that you drink more coffee and it just starts this downward spiral. Charles (02:48): So I've kind of found by starting your day off. Very first thing, basically just chucking a liter of water. All of a sudden you have all that water back that you've kind of lost overnight and you start your day off this much better place. And when you do drink coffee, you'll find that you don't drink as much because a stomach full of water.