Do you know what I love about the audio interface that I'm using it has big buttons So when I go to push a button to play the music, it's real big It makes it easy the one I had before had smaller buttons So I was constantly pushing the wrong button, but now that I have these big buttons I seem to be still pushing the wrong damn buttons It's Monday, and we're gonna talk about motivation and we're gonna talk about three things that we can all do about it I'm gonna try and push the right button And I did Welcome Welcome you all to the Daily Grateful. I am Michael crows, and I'm feeling are you feeling great? You're not? Oh, man.
I'm feeling I'm feeling good. I'm recording this the night before okay, which is a Beatles song Remember that the night before were you telling lies the night before? Oh anyway, man I want to hear that, but I gotta do the podcast when I'm done podcast and we'll listen to that That's what I'm gonna do. I'm at the night But I should write that down.
So remember because I have terrible short-term memory night before Too-shoo-choo. Anyway. Hi. How you doing?
It's Monday. We need to get the week started So I just think there's three things that I do that I try to do that I do That I do yeah three things that I do every every day, but you know, especially on Mondays the first thing is affirmations I know what you're saying affirmations are so lame and I think they are for the most part But you know what I I I learned this from my son. He would say this you know It's this is going to be a great day or he would say he would quote spongebob He would my son when he was young and you know, he's still not old he's 28 But he still will talk spongebob once in a while So that's one thing and I will say that I'm capable of being strong and you know something Yeah, not not terribly bad for being such an old fart and I you know if you repeat these things with convention with conviction It's supposed to work for you I don't know I just come around here and I do this stuff the other thing that I'm really bad at but I still do it I have a little notebook by my bad is gratitude journaling. I guess you can call it that journaling I I write down three things just three things every day that I'm grateful for and that's the particular day that I am that's that particular day And so tomorrow morning, which will be Monday morning, which you're listening to me right now While I'm writing this down if you're listening to me on Monday morning I'm writing down three things and I'm grateful for I'm gonna go to Harbor Island this morning And I haven't been to our Harbor Island in 20 years.
It's in Tampa It's just hard to get to because you got to go downtown. It's paid But I'm looking forward to that in seeing that so I'm looking forward to that That's one thing that I'm going to write down that I'm looking forward to the other thing that I'm going to write down that I'm looking forward to is that I should be home by noon and that is good and I am working on some writing projects And I'm going to spend two hours tomorrow working on the writing project I'm actually going to spend a good hour after I'm done doing the podcast tonight working on the writing project But that's you know, I'm gonna be grateful tomorrow For the fact that I'm going to be Off to Harbor Island I'll be home by noon and I can work on my writing projects and that makes me happy that makes me very happy Okay, the third thing that I'm going to suggest that you do and I don't do this very much, but I do it and That you know that daily goal setting this can be something just as Simple is you make a goal to take a 10-minute walk in the morning Which I need to do or you make a goal to finish a task that you have been trying to do But you've been putting off and I've got one of those right in the next room And you know that I was gonna do that today, but I didn't get around to it because I just didn't get around to it And I'm not happy that I didn't get around to it But when you achieve those goals that you set out you feel better life just gets better when you get things done I was watching a video today and I was watching videos instead of being productive But you know what this I'm recording this on Sunday. I'm I I wanted to go do something with my favorite ex-wife today But she couldn't and I didn't get started early enough had I got started early enough we'd gone off and we would have went somewhere That would have been fun, but I didn't do it So I basically sat around all day watching videos and I was watching a video from this very nice young lady called Chris The girl who makes her bed every day But you know you hear this all the time about these people to get up and make their bed because as soon as you do that You've accomplished the first thing of the day and you know what when I get up in the morning I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna wander out to the kitchen and I'm gonna get you know some diet soda because that's the way I do my caffeine is I'll have a small glass of diet soda That's I gotta get I gotta get caffeine rolling and stuff like that And then you know I then I've got other things I get going and I don't get my bed made first thing in the morning But Chris the girl was saying she doesn't either and she basically wants to pull her covers down a little bit and let it breathe And let that you know let the breathe the breath or the air remove all of her her Stuff I guess I don't know her body odor.
That's what I gathered from it and I guess that kind of makes sense I guess I kind of makes I had a girlfriend who lived down in Palm Beach and she did the same thing She made her bed every day, but she didn't make it when she got up in the morning She made it just before she left for work. She would get up in the morning She would do her coffee. She would do all of her other things She would do her makeup and you know blah blah blah get ready for work at all of these these things And then the very last thing she would do was make her bed. So bless her heart So that worked for her didn't work for her for a very long because she's no longer with us God bless her But that was her you know that I think that was pretty smart making the bed just before you walk out the door I might try working on that who knows so morning affirmations journaling Goal setting those are three things you can do tomorrow morning or this morning if you're listening to this this morning And you can do every day every day try to write down three things Okay, I have not great at affirmations.
I need to get better at when I do affirmations. I feel better my circulation gets moving And the goal setting I set I limit myself to three things for goals for a day. So for tomorrow I have two things and that's good. That's good Go to Harbor Island come home and work on a writing project.
That's that's it. All right. We will see you tomorrow on Tuesday. Have a great day