#523 The minimum morning routine (Most replayed personal development wisdom snippets)

Are you struggling to maintain a consistent morning routine that actually makes a difference?

Snippet of wisdom 81.

This is one of the most replayed personal development wisdom snippets.

My guest, the breathwork instructor Tim van der Vliet, who I recently had on the show for the second time, talks about the minimum morning routine.

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Transcript

Agi Keramidas: 0:02

Welcome to Personal Development mastery podcast, and this is another snippet of wisdom where I select my most insightful moments from previous episodes. Today's snippet comes from my first podcast conversation with the breathwork instructor Tim van der Vliet, who I recently had on the show for the second time. This snippet today is about the minimum morning routine. Let's dive right in.

Tim van der Vliet: 0:33

I call this a dentist model. So we brush our teeth every day, and we go to the dentist once a year, and we clean up everything, and we have a checkup and everything now then going to the why do we have clean teeth? Of course, because of both. But the minimum morning routine is like brushing your teeth every day for a minute. This is the 80% of percent. And 80% of your of having clean teeth is from brushing your teeth every day, and then once a year, you have to check up and clean up everything. That's the other 20% you could say. So what I've seen a lot is people are searching for. A lot of people don't know what they're searching for, but, but they're searching. And becoming a finder is basically starting doing something yourself every day, and this is what I call the minimum morning routine, and it costs consists of three pillars, as you said, it's exercise, breath work and cold training, exercise, two minutes can be longer, but two minutes is enough. Breathing, five minutes can be longer, but five minutes is enough. And ending your shower, cold, say for 30 seconds or a minute, that doesn't cost you any time. So in my philosophy, I have a minimum morning routine, which is that seven minutes that includes exercise and breath work and the cold training doesn't cost any time. And I have a maximum morning routine, which is as big as you want. It can be three hours. You know it is. I have one day a week where I practice for two three hours, including an hour of meditation and all that stuff, you know, like standing on my head, trampoline, jumping, running the five Tibetan rides, you know, like yoga, 45 minutes of breath work. Just it's really big. It's so big that's irrationally big. And the funny thing is, you never have to get there. You move. But your minimum morning routine is what you let's call it what you have to do. And the maximum morning routine is optional, and you flow somewhere every day between the minimum and the maximum morning routine. The good thing of keeping it this minimal is, for example, yesterday, I was in the plane from Argentina back to Amsterdam, and I downloaded all these videos on on Netflix, you know, a series that I'm watching about time travel, of course. And there were some good series too, but we're also flying through in the day, you know. So I slept half an hour, and I come back and there's a bunch of kids, there's the full time job that I'm having here. I had to give a session, you know, a two and a half hour session, group coaching for for my crowd. So there's simply no space to to have a jet lag. I don't do jet lags. It's very simple. It's just a mindset thing, and I'm okay with even with a half an hour of sleep. And that's the, you know, like my energy level now from being okay is compared to, say, seven years ago, when I was at spiritual teacher, it's five times bigger. So even if I'm at 3040, or 50% today, it's still way more than 100% say, seven years ago, and that is because of that minimum morning routine. Because if you do two minutes of exercise and five minutes of breathing, and I'm walking here in the streets of Amsterdam, and I'm feeling a bit off because I slept only half an hour, which is not more than normal, instead of going into a story in my head, like, oh, it's because I didn't sleep, oh yes, because I have a jet like, you know, like we, we, we are making ourselves crazy with that rational brain. We cannot live without it, and living with it is a challenge as well. But because I did my two minutes and my five minutes, instead of going into, oh, I'm screwed up today. Because whatever story I'm going like, I'm getting into that thought of, ah, I didn't sleep, I wait. I did my exercise, I did my breathing, I ended my shower cold. I'm okay. So this is a mental thing, but if any limiting thought, or call it a negative thought, ends with, but I did my exercise, breathing and cold training, so I'm okay. It's not a negative thought anymore. And that is the power of doing a little every day.

Agi Keramidas: 5:36

Thank you for listening. You will find a full conversation with Tim van der Vliet in Episode 208 The link is in the show notes. If you have found value in this episode, consider supporting the show by visiting personal development mastery podcast.com/support you will also find the link in the episode description. I appreciate you until next time stand out. Don't fit in.