Hey Reader,

When life feels like it’s constantly demanding your attention, it’s easy to feel behind.

Even sleeping with my phone in the restroom, it still feels like my phone begs for me to check it the moment I wake up. I can literally feel my impulses pulling me to "just tap and see."

What if we have ourselves a pleasant surprise?

Hardly ever works that way lol. Without fail, I immediately feel scrambled and have the urge to hurry myself into work mode.

I see two roadblocks causing this:

1. I’m snoozing too much (one of my worst habits)
2. I’m not allowing my mind to wake up before checking my phone

It’s only on days when I don’t immediately check my phone that I feel the most in alignment, regardless of what time I wake up.

So if you’ve been also feeling scrambled lately, I invite you to join me on this challenge:

• [30 min] Wake up, no snooze, and practice solitude. Meditation and/or nature walks are ideal during this time pocket. Avoid music, noise, electronics, and notifications.
• [30 min] Grow, learn, read, write. Take 5 minutes here to ask yourself two things:
  • What is the biggest constraint in my business?
  • What is the ONE thing I can do today to breakthrough that constraint?

Once we’ve completed this 1-hour block, only then can we check our phone… but if you want brownie points, I suggest waiting until you’ve completed at least one deep work session on top of your morning routine.

Doing this has personally brought feelings of euphoria – wild what can happen and how simple things can be when we don't immediately check that damn phone.

One thing we haven’t covered yet… social media.

Save checking that MF until noon, at the very least. For 99% of us, there is absolutely zero benefit in checking Instagram before getting our most important work done.

You deplete the dopamine – your motivation receptor – that you need in order to complete the needle-moving tasks in your business.

This is why after a doom scroll, life feels meaningless and you have zero energy to get back to work.

Please, please, please… be obsessively mindful about this and protect your energy like you would a newborn baby.

The life, business, and content you’re creating depends on it.

Good luck this next week and have a beautiful rest of your weekend.

Much love,

Ashton

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