Morning Habits That Change Everything

Episode 299: In this lighthearted and thoughtful episode, Vonda and Lori kick things off with karaoke night plans, road trip shenanigans, and a few laughs before diving into something we all wrestle with—morning routines. Inspired by an article on 10 simple habits that quietly make you unstoppable, they share personal stories, practical reflections, and how even small changes like making your bed, stepping outside for a few minutes of sunlight, or choosing three priorities can set the tone for your whole day. Whether you’re running a flower shop, a business, or just trying to start your mornings with more intention, this episode will encourage you to reset, refocus, and bring your best self forward.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:01

They felt more intentional. And weirdly, my whole apartment just kept getting a little tidier because my brain started expecting completion in other areas.

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Welcome to the Business and Pleasure of Flowers. We're your hosts, Vonda LaFever and Lori Wilson.

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And we believe that business and fun are a perfect combination. Kind of like us, Vonda. Good morning, Vonda LaFever. How are you? Good. How are you, Miss Lori Wilson? Great. I'm just drinking some coffee from my cup. I don't know. Is that backwards to you? No.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

If found in microwave, please return to mom. There you go. Well, that's so sweet. Yes. Isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 0:52

Yes. It was given to me one Christmas morn from my three children. Because, you know, that evening, that's where my coffee is found in the microwave. Oh, shoot. I wondered where that was. That was kind of a thing growing up when my kids were young. So they found me a cup that says it's perfect. If it's in the microwave, it's mom's. She forgot she put it there. Anyway, so I have a request, Vonda.

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Oh, my boss.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Okay. I I need time off on Friday, September 26th. I need to get off by 4 30. Okay. Instead of 5. And I want to be able to do it. Yeah. Yeah, because we're so strict. I don't want you to ask me why.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Lori, why do you need off on September 26th by 4 30? Oh my god, I'm so excited.

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I'm so excited. Because I've been asked to be a driver slash chaperone for my dad's senior living to take him to karaoke night. And karaoke night starts at five o'clock.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Oh boy. Oh my god.

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I cannot wait. I'm just beside myself. You you are so funny.

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So bus driver Mike is karaoke Mike. So the guy that drives the bus for the senior living also does karaoke. He's really good at it, so I hear. And he's my buddy and he loves my dad, but his bus only seats like 14.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Okay.

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So every once in a while he takes a group to this place called the Pirates Cove, which is a little restaurant, but they'll do karaoke, but they do an early version for seniors. And he's gonna perform, but he can only take 14 people. Well, the whole place wants to go because it's and they need extra drivers. I went to sign my dad up and they're like, Well, the bus is full, but if you would agree to be a driver, I'm like, would I agree? Are you kidding me? This is my dream. I cannot wait. And they're like, Well, you need to be here by four. I was like, I I will be here at three. I'll be here whatever time. I'm so excited. I've got a big car. I anyway.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

And my dad is looking at me. He's like, Well, I don't like to be out after dark. I was like, Daddy, it's over at seven. We'll be back before dark. It's okay. And he's not as excited as I am.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

That's not surprising. I know it. He's like, Well, what am I gonna do for supper? Everything in his world is changing because we're gonna be out after 3 p.m. It's like, daddy, it's okay. There's food there. Well, don't they bring me my supper? What's my it's always anyway, just bring his favorite snack. I know. I'm like, I'll buy you something when we get there. And I was like, Daddy, are you gonna do karaoke with me? And he's like, I don't believe I will. Tell him you need to be practicing. Yeah, I'm just not sensing the excitement from him. So anyway, you have enough excitement for both of you to cannot wait. I think it's gonna be hysterical. So I'll report back.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Yes, please do. But the sad part is you still have a couple weeks, Lori.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

I know, I know, I know. I told you it was good news, bad news earlier before we press record. There's potential I might not get to do it because my daughter, her move date, she's moving apartments on the 27th, and then she throws in, I might need you to come down on the 26th and help me pack. And I'm like, hmm. I have moved you, I don't even know how many times. I don't know. We're coming down on Saturday to help. So I'm just taking deep breaths. That's right, figure it out. And I was like, maybe, maybe your dad can go down, maybe whatever. She's hired movers to do like all the big stuff, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

Anyway, well, it you you've got to do karaoke because we need a hear back through that.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

I wanted pictures, videos. Come on, we need some videos. I am gonna get up with bus driver Mike and sing. I'm trying to think like what songs? What songs are we gonna sing? And my dad just needs to get on board. I know he won't sing, but I at least want him to clap. I want him to just be a part of it. But I know all he's gonna do is sit there and wonder, what is he gonna eat? Because he likes to eat at 4 30. So maybe if I feed him first. There you go. Feed him early.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

There you go.

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Feed him early. Anyway, okay. That's all figured out now. That's figured out. That's it. That's my big news. That's well, that's what's going on in my life, Vonda. I love that, Lori. I love it. That's the highlight. It's the highlight of my life. I know you're getting ready for Rome, as am I, but that's the highlight in my life right now.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

Well, first, by the time this airs, we will have already been back from RW wholesale in Douglas, Georgia, and have a little fun there.

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And very excited about it's gonna be fun to see Randy and all of his clients, customers, and we're gonna get to see Julie Poulter.

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We are Sue Julie, and I think Marlon's coming.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

Is Marlon coming? Oh my gosh! I didn't know that.

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I'm glad you told me. I don't even know what I would have done if I wasn't prepared to see his beautiful face.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

That's exciting. So getting Julie and Marlon together will be a trip. Let me tell you, the two of them. Well, hey, the four of us.

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I'm gonna just have my phone on record the whole time and just sit back and whatever happens, happens. It'll it'll be great. I might have to do like a random podcast and not even tell you guys while it's going, you know, the shenanigans of a road trip. Who knows? That will be so much fun. So all right.

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Today is a pleasure pod, if you will. We can kind of tell that off. It's kind of started that way. It started that way.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

So good. It's kind of business-y because when I was reading this, what I thought about was first of all, I have gotten myself, if I'm being completely transparent, I've gotten myself in not great morning habits for a while. And I used to be very self-disciplined in my mornings. And what I have learned is you get in a rut, and it's really, really hard to get out. You know, you you get up in the morning, you take a walk, you've gotten yourself disciplined. You didn't always do that, but you did that, and I think you got motivated with the wedding, and you know, you you you started doing these things, but I got myself doing walking even before the engagement, let's say.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

Right. Right. You know, so that's it. But it does motivate you more when you're like, oh, now I get a goal to get to.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

I want to feel good, I want to be able to walk all around and I gotta have some energy. But I've gotten myself out of it and I've struggled getting back in. I used to get up every morning, even before my husband, and I would get my cup of coffee and my Bible and go sit in my kitchen table and just have my moments. Anyway, I found this article, and it's like the 10 morning habits that quietly make you unstoppable. And I almost didn't look at it because I'm like, I'm not 10, that is daunting. No, I'm not looking at 10. I can't even do two, right? Like, I'm just done. And it's 10 are a lot. Right, right, right, right. So I I opened it because the first thing was I didn't want to do it. I mean, the author said this, but I tried it for six months and the results were honestly unreal. And I was like, okay, well, let me see. Sounds salesy, but they weren't selling supplements, so I was like, okay, I'll read it. And everything it is is like quick, everything's doable. Everything's doable. And when I read it, it kind of gave me reprieve. It made me feel like, wow, this might help me. And then it made me think, these are things every woman and man that owns in our world a flower shop or a business could actually attain before they turn that key to the door. Like these are things I think. And so I what I wanted to do, I didn't want to even share them with you until we're live because I wanted to see if you felt that way also. Or you're like, no, there's no way they can do all this. Cause when I owned a business, I could barely open my diet coat before I washed in the door. Like, because you know, that's real life for a lot of people, and I get that too. Okay. And then we'll be real honest with we do or we don't. Number one habit was that she had to stop doing. I had to stop waking up to my phone. And she said for the first six months when she did this, no phone in the bedroom at night. She purchased a $12 alarm clock, which my husband literally uses the same digital alarm clock we received as a wedding gift from 1992. Yes, and yes, we get made fun of from our children. It's no, but it still works. It's like the worst noise. But he uses it because he doesn't bring his phone into the bedroom. We don't have a TV in the bedroom. He doesn't bring a phone. And no, he is not 92 years old. That's him, because he doesn't believe you should bring I bring my phone into the room. She said it was terrible the first week. She said her fingers literally twitched. She would wake up in a fog because I wake up at night. You know, I wake up like last night I woke up and I was having a hot flash and I was like, oh, and I couldn't go back to sleep. And I was like, do I open my phone? Which I did you open your phone? Normally do. I did. Okay. What I've been doing is I'll open my phone. I won't get on social media, but I will get on like my Bible app and I will just read like Psalms or I try to read something soothing, but I used to think that helps lull me back to sleep. I don't know if it does or not. What my husband will say is it doesn't because it's the light that stimulates you awake. So I don't know. I feel like it does because my eyes get tired of reading and I fall back asleep. I don't get on social media because I know that wakes me up because I'll accidentally see something that you're like, ah, that you don't want to see. Not like inappropriate, but you know, just something that makes you mad or whatever. Stimulate your yeah, that stimulates any kind of thought. Like I only want to see puppies or babies, right? That's like, oh, that's so cute, and fall back asleep. That doesn't always happen.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

So what about you? I have my phone beside me plugged in on my bed, but I don't use it for an alarm. I I wake up on my own. I mean, I never set an alarm. Yeah. Because I figure my body will tell me if I need to sleep longer and I will sleep longer. Right. But I just wake up, just you know. Do you ever wake up in the night? I do. I wake up in the night, and but I never pick up my phone. The only thing I look at my phone is the time because it gets like you said, I don't need to look at the email. I don't need to do any of that. If I truly can't get to sleep, then I turn over and actually do prayers just quietly. Right. I don't look over my phone. Yeah. If I can't sleep, then I do get up and go in my office. That's when I'm really can't sleep. Right. No, as far as a phone, I don't I don't look at the phone at night. Yeah. Because exactly that reason. I don't need to go down a rabbit hole of, oh my gosh, you know, I need to answer this email now or I need to do this. I just can't. I didn't see. I don't open my email until after I take my walk in the morning. So I get up, get out of bed. Yeah. Don't even look at my phone until after my walk because I need to fly open. That's what you should do.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

She said the first week was terrible. By the third week, a strange feeling of mental space greeted me in the mornings. Wow. Not starting the day with other people's emergencies. I even stayed away from doom scrolling before that first sip of coffee. She said the outcome my morning saw a sharp decrease in my anxiety. I stopped feeling like I was hijacked by other people's agendas and started my productivity curve from zero.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

I think that's so true. As far as a shop owner, don't open that email. You can't do anything about it until you walk in that shop in the morning, maybe a half hour before, you know, or something. But if you do it too early, it's not helping you. You can't solve it before that point. So that's my suggestion too. Just have that quiet space for yourself.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Well, what about if you're a shop owner and you know, let's say it's three in the morning and you look and you received a bunch of sympathy orders in the middle of the night. Like that would keep you awake, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Oh, yeah, it definitely would keep you awake. So you don't look. Typically, you're not going to get them in the middle of the night, right? I mean, and a lot of times those aren't coming in on your email, they'll be coming in on your system, maybe in the store.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

Yeah. Yeah. Check that on our phone or anything. Well, they might. Yeah, they might check those things. Like I'll check Slack in the middle of the night. And then how did I do that? I don't know. It's just stupid. You know? And the minute I click it, I'm like, why did I just do that? It's just habit. So anyway, habit number two. I made my bed every day. She said, yes, I do roll my eyes at this one when I read about it. The expression making your bed always sounded like productivity, like flossing. Technically, it's good for you, but it's super boring, easy to skip. She goes, here's the twist. It's actually not about the bed, it's about momentum. If the bed is made immediately upon waking up, what has been accomplished is something concrete within minutes of starting your day.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

There's a lot that's said about there. You can read that. The advantages to making your bed during the day. And I've read it before. Like you're saying, you're complete one task. It's like done, and it doesn't have to be perfect. It's done. You have completed a task and you're like, woohoo, let's go.

SPEAKER_02 16:41

Yeah. I went. I never ever thought about it that way. She goes on to say her outcome here. My mornings felt cleaner. They felt more intentional. And weirdly, my whole apartment just kept getting a little tidier because my brain started expecting completion in other areas. Interesting. I would have never guessed that. Wow. Wow. This is good for me because you know, my office is right off my bedroom. I jump up, walk out, and I tend to just kind of live in this space, but I kind of forget, you know. And so to make the bed and make it feel more like something I want to go back to even at night makes a big difference.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

Yeah.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

Sense of accomplishment, increased productivity, and a tidier and calming environment. Yeah. And improved sleep. Interesting. 100%.

SPEAKER_02 17:43

Don't you like getting into an a clean, tidy bed more than a messy one?

SPEAKER_01 17:50

Agree. 100%.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

Along with this, something that my oldest son Davis and I do that we learned a couple years ago because we both struggle with ADD. Is we learned every time you get something out that was this tagline like, don't put it down, put it away. Like toaster. I'll get a toaster out and I'll use it before I even eat my toast. Don't put that toaster down, put it away. Like don't take your hand off of the thing until you've put it back in its place. Or you'll never put it back because not because I just don't care, but because I will literally forget and move on to the next task.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Yeah, it's that 30-second rule.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Put it away. I have to don't put it down, put it away. I like that. I like that a lot.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

Do that when I'm doing laundry. Like after I've put everything in the basket and I bring it in here, I'm like, don't put that basket down. Put the laundry away. Because that basket of clean folded laundry will sit there the entire week if I don't. Okay, there you go. Great. I have to do that. So okay, habit number three. And you know, I try to do this one. Get sunlight before coffee. Yeah, you do. I'm well, not well, you do when you go on your walk, but it's dark, but outside. So the hard, hard part about this is depending on where you live, right? Um your environment. Science is though very clear. The sun in your eyes anchors your circadian rhythm. It promotes cortisol, the good cortisol that transforms cortisol in the morning and it gets your body up prior to caffeine and probably healthier than caffeine does. She said, I instructed myself always to get outside for five minutes before even thinking about coffee. That'd be hard. It would not matter whether the day was cloudy or light. After all, light is light, you know, as long as it's not like pouring rain. She said the first week I hated it. It was cold. Sometimes it was misting. My neighbor's dog was offended my existence. She said, the second month, I realized something weird was going on. I was sleeping better at night. I was falling asleep faster. And I was waking up before my alarm at times. The outcome? My energy patterns became more predictable. My mid-afternoon crashes dissipated, and I no longer had to beg for that third hit of coffee to get through dinner. Now, I don't know. That's her outcome. You and I don't drink coffee that late. We would be up all night. What I do is I go out in the morning. Sometimes I will go out with my cup of coffee. That's me normally. It's usually together. And I put my bare feet in the grass. That's my thing. I ground my feet in the grass, even if it's wet, and I just kind of feel it. I just feel it. And maybe I say a prayer. Maybe I just sit there. And then I go and I talk to my hydrangea plants and I ask them to please don't die. I don't really know how to care for you. And I apologize, but I am doing the best I can. And, you know, I give them a little pep talk. And then I go over to all of my flowers, wild flowers and plants where all of the big huge bumblebees live. And I say thank you. And I say thank you for not stinging and attacking me and staying away from my swimming pool. And so I just have these little conversations. Conversation with nature. I do. I do. And it's silly. And my dog wands around. But I I try to do that. And as goofy as that sounds, when I have those moments, it does. It kind of grounds me a minute. I love that, Lori. That is pretty cool. That's my moment. I don't know. Like she said, she sleeps better because of it. I don't know. I haven't tracked that. I'm not as self-aware as she is, I guess, on that one. Yeah. Yeah. That would be a tough one to track. But I do like when I start my mornings like that. So this one is always a good thing to do. And when I don't do it, I notice I don't do it. I drink a full glass of water before I do anything else. When I don't do it, I'm very aware, like I'm thirsty. So before you drink that first cup of coffee, I always think it's important to drink a water.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Yeah, that's good. Habit five, doing five minutes of movement every morning.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Yeah, if you're not going to take a walk or something, at least walk around the house, do something to move around.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Right. When I read that one, that's why I was like, that's why these things are doable for any person.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Just five minutes, five minutes of stretching or walking around, or I would say most people do that if if you're running a shop because you're you're gathering things around that you need to take with you. Maybe you're taking your kids to school, right? Or you have things that you have to do. So I think that's probably one that most people achieve, but you don't give it thought. You're like, oh yeah, I've already done that one. So right.

SPEAKER_02 23:23

She, I think, is talking about like she did would do five minutes of push-ups, squats with stretching, like intentional, just you movement. She goes, it's never about the calories burned. It's just sending an unmistakable signal to my brain. We are alive. I'm thinking of you, my body. I'm doing the best I can. I'm starting my day. I'm in tune with every part. I'm gonna try to make it work today. Like that type of thing. Okay. So more intentional exercise. Yeah, but just five minutes, not like a full-on hour-long hit class or whatever. She said, by month two, five minutes became 10 minutes. Six months, it turned into a habit. So much at skipping felt like not brushing my teeth. The outcome I never felt stiff again. My posture became better. And when I sat down for work, I felt more alert. Okay. So five, ten minutes. To me, I'm like, I can do that.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

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SPEAKER_02 25:35

Number six, we're getting there. We're getting there. I wrote down three things I wanted to accomplish. She said she used to start her day by making like a massive to-do list. Oh, yeah. Never get it done. We never get it done. We've talked about this, and we have those. And Ellie and I talk about because we have those and we get lost in them. They become overwhelming. And so you feel so much pressure. You're like, I don't know where to start or what to do.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

So you just shut it down. Well, there's been massive studies on that. Three to five things. You'll accomplish three. Yeah. If you have 10 things on your list, you might only accomplish one. Right. So yeah, definitely three things on your list. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

I wrote down the three high impact tanks that for just that day. They're not errands or busy work, but the three high impact have to do these. You got to prioritize, just like Leslie, our coworker, ours says, prioritize this. What do you need me to do? What are my top things here? She says, it helps you be honest about what matters. What matters here. And that was good for me to read because I, in my brain fog mornings, every once in a while, can go all over the place in my mornings and trying to get them scheduled on what's important here. But if I go back to what is due by EOD or EOW, I can start backtracking and go, oh, this is a very simple answer here.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

What my suggestion is instead of doing that in the morning to do it to at night before you go to bed, because you wake up already knowing those three things that you need to accomplish tomorrow. The next day.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

That is a good idea because you already sort of have it in your mind too. Oh, well, this is due and this is okay. That is a very good idea. Her outcome, I thought was interesting. She goes, not only did my focus sharpen when I only get it to the three, she said, I stopped chasing the fake progress. Yeah. And started actually moving the needle on big projects. And I think about how much time does get wasted on fake projects. Yeah. But we don't realize it. We go down rabbit holes. We say here, we don't call it fake projects, but we do. We'll go down rabbit holes. Ellie and I do it all the time. It's not intentional. And you're like, why where where was our starting point on this? Like, whose big idea was this one? You know, but it started with good intention.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

Yeah, most of the time they do.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

It wasn't a priority. But we thought it was, but it wasn't. So anyway. Um, habit number seven spending two minutes in silence. Morning silence. We're virtual company, so I feel like I'm not hard with that. She said, This one I felt surprised me. I had this image of a morning silence associated with hardcore meditation. She said, You don't need to chant mantras or seek zen. She goes, I just sat on my couch with coffee, no phone, no music, no agenda, and just breeze in my apartment. I mean to me, my silence is unlike yours, is our prayer time is, and that's not really silence, it's just quiet time. Quiet time. Yeah. I I'm a big believer in that. This one I believe, and I know this is important. Read just one page of something a day. Just it could be inspiring, it could be part of a book. My youngest son did the thing called 75 Hard. I've talked about it before. That's kind of what jump started his big workout regimen in his mind. He thought he was overweight. He was a little bit, but he started this. And part of 75 Hard was you have to read at least 30 minutes a day. It's just the discipline. It's strength, mind, body, soul, everything. But part of it is you read 30 minutes a day. I don't care what you read, but you read. And like I said, he started this two years ago. He's still reading. That's right. You know, because like, wow, I forgot how much. I'm like, well, when you were a kid, you were obsessed with chapter books, like any kind of chapter book you loved. It does something for you. It relaxes you, it expands your mind, you know, depending on what you're reading. Don't read scary, weird stuff, but you know, depending. But I think reading one page of an inspiring book leads to two pages and three pages and four, you know, that type of thing. When you and I read a book about how to be a better leader or something, one page to two pages, it makes us feel smarter. Right. Absolutely. You know, so usually the outcome is positive. Because we're like, wow, I gained knowledge. That's good. You know, habit number nine says, I avoided fake work before 10 a.m. I'm not sure that we have a lot of fake work, and I'm certainly not sure that a flower shop owner has I was gonna say, I don't think that's anything we have to worry about with the flower shop owner.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

They don't do fake work, let's just say.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

I mean they don't have time for I think they would love to have some fake work, but yeah, yeah, they don't have any fake work. And then habit number 10, I practiced a win review before starting work. And this is she says the final habit wasn't about scheduling the day, but a reminder that I am powerful enough. Before I got my laptop out, I would jot down a win from the day, no matter how trivial my day was. And I do love that. I think every single day, we've talked about that, your highs and lows, whatever, every single day you need to be able to look at that day and say, what was a win? What did we do good? Even if it was, hey, I cleaned the bathroom today. It was really clean, it was sparkling or you know, yeah, whatever. But she said after doing this for six months, the whole thing, she was less reactive, she got much more work done, she felt healthier, and she had more trust in herself.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

I love that. I mean, all those things are really important, but it it really is it's focusing on herself, but not self-absorbed. Right, right. So one of those things it's like these are all like an inform, yeah, for clarity, really. Clarity and an improvement of self.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Right. And then she does go on. I mean, the article's really long, it we could go on forever, but she talks about how do you start these, don't dive into all 10. Yeah, right, right. We got to pick what works for us. Some people are in apartments in New York City, you don't have grass, so don't go step on grass, but maybe start your day going outside. Mm-hmm. Or opening a window and opening a window for air, you know, a couple that you're like, okay, I can do these and and sit with them for a while. So I don't know. I just thought it was interesting. I think every one of us on this planet can reevaluate, hey, how is my morning routine? Am I bringing my best self to work?

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Yeah. And your morning is what sets you up for the success of the day. Right.

SPEAKER_02 33:14

We talked about that in sales prep school to every employee, bring your best self. And I'm like, well, we as business owners have to do the same. I have to practice what I preach. And a lot of days I'm not. Oh, you do a pretty darn good job. I know, but it's good to reflect and and remind ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

And we can't be perfect, and some days we can't do those things and we want to, but that's okay. You start the next day and hit the reset button and go again. Yep. All right. We'll talk to you later.

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