my 6am productive morning routine

Good morning! Hi guys, it's me. Today I just woke up, as you can probably tell. I'm like super sleepy. It's currently 8:20 AM. I was planning to wake up at 6:30 AM, but I snoozed my alarm a couple of times, and I didn't realize it. And it's currently 8:20 AM. But no problem, it's okay, it's okay.

Okay, so let me introduce you guys to my alarm clock. For my alarm clock, I use this Yabaya sunlight alarm clock. This video is not sponsored. What is a sunlight alarm clock? So basically, a sunrise alarm clock or sunlight alarm clock is an artificial light source that is integrated into a standard digital clock. It is time to gradually wake a person at a selected time. It does this by mimicking the steadily increasing light of sunlight. So my sunlight alarm clock loves from 10 minutes to 60 minutes. So basically, because it mimics the sunlight, you don't ruin your circadian rhythm, and you wake up much more easily.

Time to make my bed! After that, I tidied up my bed. I realized that whenever my mental and physical environment is messy, my mind becomes messy as well. I cannot really concentrate, and I think my mind is everywhere. So by organizing your physical environment, it allows you to concentrate more, so I did that. After tidying up my bed, I went to the bathroom, and I did the necessary hygiene stuff that we all do.

I really started to meditate because these days I realized that my mind was very stuffed, and the stress and anxiety that built in my brain was getting bigger and bigger. So I decided to stop that, and I realized that I wasn't really paying attention to my mental health. So I decided to start the meditation, and I used an amazing app for meditation, which I'll introduce you guys on Sunday. I really love this app! I meditated in Japanese, and I did a body scanning meditation session, which was amazing.

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After that, I decided to work out a bit. These days, I realized how much of a couch potato I am, and I cannot tell you guys how jiggly my arms, my legs, my whole body is. I lost almost all of the muscles that I had back in the day when I was working out constantly. I feel like a couch potato right now, like a literal potato. So I worked out for about 20 minutes doing Cassie Ho's workouts.

I think these days the thing that I need is literally Cassie's positivity. The energy she's vibrating is like sunshine, and it really motivates me, energizes me, and gives me positive energy. So I really love her workouts. I did a full body workout and one with an ab workout. I guess I just pick like one or two random workouts every single day and I started to work out once again because healthy body, healthy mind.

When it comes to workouts, I think there is something that you truly don't want to work out, but after you work out, you feel so proud of yourself, and endorphins kick in, and you just feel immediately much better. So when I feel down, when I feel depressed, when I feel stressed, I meditate and work out, and it truly changes things.

I realize that when I don't do my workout during my morning routine, I don't work out because I simply make excuses not to work out. I say I'm tired. I say I have things to do. I say I don't have time, even though I have time, and I just like make a bunch of excuses. We humans are so good at making excuses, and every single day I come up with a new logical excuse not to work out.

So I decided to work out right after I wake up so that I don't miss my workout sessions. You don't need to go crazy for your workout sessions; you can just basically do 10 to 15 minutes of workout, and you can feel much better. My goal is not to lose weight. I mean, it will be amazing if I can shape up my body, but the goal is not that. I treat workouts as something for my mental and physical health.

After my workouts, I usually do like five to ten minutes of yoga as a cool down. Doing yoga as a cool down is a much more productive way to cool down. It really calms me down. The first time that I tried yoga was when I was six years old. My mom brought me to a kids' yoga class back in the day, and I truly fell in love with it. But now we have like an on and off relationship with yoga. Whenever I feel stuck, I do yoga, but I realize that I should probably do it more often.

I decided to include it into my morning routine so that I don't miss my yoga sessions. It truly helps. You might think, like, "Oh, this is like some sort of hippie new trend that everybody does," but yoga has a very long history, so you can research about it. But I think you can just like give it a try; you won't lose anything by giving a try to new things.

After my little meditation exercise and yoga session, I took a very cold shower, not because I'm a productivity freak, but simply because the outside is so, so hot. After my cold, cold shower, I did my skincare routine. If you're interested in my skincare routine, I have a full dedicated video about it.

The funny thing about the comments section of my skincare routine is that people say, "Oh, Asians have good skin." It's not about your skincare, girl! I had so many acnes back in the day. Skincare is not about curing things; it's just something supplementary to prevent skin imperfections that you can have in the future.

If you're interested in my skincare routine, I have a full dedicated video about it, and also I used to have a bunch of acnes. You can also watch a video about how I got rid of them, and now I have pretty good skin, in my opinion. After that, I dried my hair. I hate drying my hair; that's why I keep my hair short. You guys know me with short hair, but 90% of my time I had like long hair.

But then I realized drying your hair every single day is such a waste of time, so I decided to cut it off. After drying my hair, I made myself a coffee. The thing that I was really surprised about when I was in Germany is that when I said iced coffee, they brought me basically a coffee with ice cream on top of it. They said, "We don't drink iced coffee here," which was very confusing to me because in Starbucks they sell iced coffee, I guess in Dutch in Germany, right?

So it kind of was weird, but I don't know if it's something Asian because in Japan we drink iced coffee pretty often. So let me know if it's some sort of an Asian thing. I took a sip from my coffee because I'm a caffeine addict, and I prepared myself a breakfast. In Japan, my grandpa and my mom make like a super traditional Japanese breakfast. However, since I'm currently in Turkey and I don't want to spend a lot of time making breakfast, I made a simple chia seed yogurt banana sleep breakfast, which is fulfilling, delicious.

It looks awful but healthy, and I ate that. Chia seed is like so good for you; it has high fiber, high protein, good for your digestion, good for your every single part of your body basically. Anyways, I added some banana and I ate my breakfast. What do you guys eat for breakfast? I actually really love simit, which is a traditional Turkish bread, but every single time we buy simit to our house, my dad eats every single one of it.

We're like never able to eat simit during our breakfast. What works for you now might not work for you three months from now, so don't forget to keep asking yourself, "Is this working for me?" So bye guys, love you! You.