Imagine Yourself Setting the Tone of Your Day in a Beautiful Way
- Lanee and Sandy
- May 27, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 21, 2024
Buenos Dias
Bonjour
Buongiorno
Guten Morgen
Aloha
Namaste
Top of the Morning To You!
“Good Morning” is one of the easiest ways to set the tone of your day in a beautiful way, no matter what country you live in. It’s a universal greeting meant to brighten someone’s day.
So, how do you start your day? Have you ever considered intentionally and strategically setting yourself up for the best day possible, on a daily basis? Would you consider making a few tweaks to your morning routine if it empowered and strengthened you? What if it made you more adept at handling a long or hard or unexpectedly bad day? What if we promised it would only take 5 extra minutes?
What are you waiting for…
Rise and shine can be your new standard of what a morning looks like in your household. We dedicate an entire episode to incorporating inner strengthening activities that set you up for a fortified day. Just like a strong cup of coffee, a strong morning routine can make your day!
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Sandy Kovach [00:00:01]:
Life can throw a lot at you, but imagine if your life were different, better, not because of what's coming at you, but because of what's coming from you. Let's get there together. Join us and imagine yourself.
Lanée Blaise [00:00:14]:
Good morning. And maybe it's not actually morning for you personally, but I'm just practicing saying those beautiful words to kinda get us started on today's episode. So good morning. I'm Lanee.
Sandy Kovach [00:00:26]:
And I'm Sandy. Good morning to you or whatever Whatever part of the day. It is. But, Lanee, we're saying good morning because we are imagine our imagining ourselves doing what?
Lanée Blaise [00:00:35]:
We are imagining ourselves loving and appreciating what mornings really can bring as we strategically set the tone for the entire day.
Sandy Kovach [00:00:48]:
Morning us can make it or break it. Yes. And you know what can make or break mornings is coffee?
Lanée Blaise [00:00:54]:
I knew I was gonna say that. I knew were gonna say coffee.
Sandy Kovach [00:00:57]:
I knew it. And that is not about coffee though, is it? Or can it be?
Lanée Blaise [00:01:00]:
It can be if that helps make your morning better. By all means, bring it on. Alright.
Sandy Kovach [00:01:07]:
To the point where
Lanée Blaise [00:01:08]:
you're, like, jitter and shaking, but enough to make it happy and pleasant. Sip that coffee.
Sandy Kovach [00:01:12]:
I I love my coffee, and I think a lot of other people do too, but there are many other things about mornings or things that we can do that even if we're not morning people. Right. Because not everybody is a morning person.
Lanée Blaise [00:01:24]:
Right. And not everybody gets the opportunity to wake up at the time that they really want to wake up in their ideal life. But like you said, even if you're not a morning person
Sandy Kovach [00:01:32]:
Or even if you are, okay, working a late shift and you get up at 11 o'clock in the morning, that's still the start of your day. So what we're talking about is the start of your day as you get up out of bed and how that sets the tone. Exactly.
Lanée Blaise [00:01:45]:
How many of you set an alarm clock or your smartphone or you have a rooster nearby that crows to kind of intentionally and strategically set yourself up for an on time productive morning.
Sandy Kovach [00:02:01]:
So I do. I set my alarm when I have to get up. But get this, my husband does not have to set his phone. He just wakes up.
Lanée Blaise [00:02:07]:
If the time that he wants to wake up or at the same time every day?
Sandy Kovach [00:02:10]:
The time he wants to wake up, which is totally insane to me.
Lanée Blaise [00:02:12]:
He has an internal clock. He does.
Sandy Kovach [00:02:15]:
I do not. Maybe he's,
Lanée Blaise [00:02:16]:
like, one of those Androids
Sandy Kovach [00:02:18]:
like, a from Star Trek or something? Yes. That's
Lanée Blaise [00:02:21]:
who that's who you've got. Uh-oh. Or maybe maybe he just is blessed with that internal clock. That's a good way.
Sandy Kovach [00:02:28]:
That is a good way. But for the average person, they usually have to use their phone or their alarm clock or whatever. They're gonna do. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Lanée Blaise [00:02:34]:
So what if you have a part 2 that goes along with it and how many of you set up something intentionally and strategically to give you such an uplift that you will be equipped that whatever the day brings, you're gonna have a productive and powerful and meaningful day.
Sandy Kovach [00:02:54]:
So beyond the alarm. Beyond the alarm. Yes. And beyond the snooze. I don't hit snooze, though.
Lanée Blaise [00:02:59]:
I do like the snooze.
Sandy Kovach [00:03:00]:
You like snooze.
Lanée Blaise [00:03:01]:
I will push it 2 and 3 times. I like that snooze.
Sandy Kovach [00:03:05]:
that means I gotta set it, you know That's right. Before. So because
Lanée Blaise [00:03:07]:
I don't like to be frazzled. Right. How many people have frazzled, crazy, hot mess mornings?
Sandy Kovach [00:03:16]:
Most people. And depending on how many kids they have or what's going on in their job or many things can contribute to a frazzeled morning.
Lanée Blaise [00:03:25]:
A frazzled morning. What about this though? We did a podcast on change and we talked about how, and we even say this at the beginning of each podcast now, how life can throw things at you. Life can throw you a curve ball or give you unexpected situations and ink the rug out of your sense of normal. And we also talked about finding Lanee. Yeah. Podcast on balance and taking just 5 minutes out of your day and how much good that can do. Yeah. What if we merge those today on this episode, and we talk about taking like at least 5 minutes every morning to mentally, emotionally, spiritually get yourself fit for your day.
Lanée Blaise [00:04:07]:
Almost like you would do like a little fitness boot camp for your body. Do that for your spirit and your mind and your emotions.
Sandy Kovach [00:04:15]:
So you put that into your schedule just like an alarm whether you snooze it or not. Exactly. And you force yourself to give yourself 5 minutes or more.
Lanée Blaise [00:04:23]:
Because I'm just thinking, like, what is your morning routine, Sandy?
Sandy Kovach [00:04:26]:
My morning routine. You know what? It really depends because I have so many different things that I do. I do get up and I usually get my husband and my son smoothies or breakfast and stuff like that. And then I get my coffee and I go in my studio. That's it. Yeah. I'm confessing now. And sometimes I work in my pajamas for, like, until noon.
Lanée Blaise [00:04:49]:
Which now that's a that's a great thing, though, actually.
Sandy Kovach [00:04:52]:
And then I go to work, you know, at night. So I have one of those really long weird days. So I don't think I'm typical.
Lanée Blaise [00:04:57]:
And you mentioned to like some people who do have kids and early jobs or things like that. My wake up routine or my morning routine has changed in my life. Actually used to be terrible. It used to just be I'd wake up in a mad rush, hit the ground running, try to get my kids off to school, my husband off, try to get myself. It was just very frustrating. And so I had to actually start setting the tone for my day the night before.
Sandy Kovach [00:05:22]:
Okay.
Lanée Blaise [00:05:22]:
You know, but now that my kids are older and that I'm older, I actually have a different routine where I get the luxury. I do get to lay there for a minute. Do you ever just lay there for a minute?
Sandy Kovach [00:05:37]:
No. Well, okay. So you know how I've been in radio for most of my life. Right? Along with the other things that
Lanée Blaise [00:05:44]:
I do. Voice. Yeah. Yeah.
Sandy Kovach [00:05:46]:
Yeah. So when I did morning drive for a while in my career, which means you're waking everybody else up, and you have to get up at, like, 3 o'clock in the morning, stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Well, at that point, I knew that I could not hit a snooze because I I was afraid I wouldn't get back up.
Lanée Blaise [00:05:59]:
I don't blame you.
Sandy Kovach [00:06:00]:
So I stopped. I refused to snooze. Okay. So you can refuse to snooze if that's a problem for you, hitting the snooze.
Lanée Blaise [00:06:08]:
That is something that's, like, a temptation
Sandy Kovach [00:06:10]:
almost. So I I don't do morning drive anymore, obviously, but it's still happens.
Lanée Blaise [00:06:15]:
You kept that habit, which which is good for you. So that one yeah. That's the part where 3 AM, where it's still dark, that really can be a hard factor. But for mine, there is at least some form of daylight. Usually I can lay there for a minute. I get to quietly thank God and invite him into my day. And then I kinda start off fresh. I do grab my cell phone.
Lanée Blaise [00:06:40]:
I don't know if everybody does that too, but
Sandy Kovach [00:06:43]:
of course you do. Everybody does that. Yeah. Are you supposed to? I don't know. But Well, I But here's for you.
Lanée Blaise [00:06:47]:
Here's the thing though. I don't grab it to really check on emails and check on things because that's a little bit too hard. I go on Instagram, and I have an Instagram account that has like little pleasant things. So I look at all my little nieces and nephews and see what they're doing, and I look at the little inspirational quotes from little ladies that I follow, and there's this one man that I follow, Spice Adams. Everything on his just makes me laugh.
Sandy Kovach [00:07:14]:
Okay. So you've got humor.
Lanée Blaise [00:07:16]:
Yes.
Sandy Kovach [00:07:16]:
You've got positive stuff, quotations. You've got family. From family. Yeah.
Lanée Blaise [00:07:21]:
And the little prayers at first too. That's how I start my day.
Sandy Kovach [00:07:24]:
I like that very much. Now you mentioned when your kids were smaller
Lanée Blaise [00:07:29]:
Yes.
Sandy Kovach [00:07:30]:
That you had to start the night before. And that's one thing that I read about a lot, and I've never really mastered this discipline. But being able to set a routine, like, the top three things that you need to accomplish tomorrow or here's what I need to do right after I get out of bed. Those things. You know? Or if you work out, you know, having your workout clothes or whatever you can prepare the night before so that you're not crazy crazy the next day.
Lanée Blaise [00:07:57]:
To help. Yes. Setting out those clothes or having some kind of, like, you kind of alluded to, like, maybe even a written list or something like that, so that you can start with a clearer mindset. And of course, to remember, like I said before, I actually couldn't help it. Every day was just kind of ridiculous, and I was okay with that because I had still emotionally prepped myself the night before.
Sandy Kovach [00:08:22]:
Okay. So what did you do the night before?
Lanée Blaise [00:08:24]:
Oh, in that case, I could even take more than 5 minutes because as long as I figured I'd get a good night's sleep, I would read little lovely devotional books or give my mom a little call and talk to her before I went to bed and make sure I sat down and prayed with my kids before they went to bed and really just decompress and unwind and just relax. Knowing that the next morning is just gonna start up and being okay accepting that the next morning was gonna start up. Boom.
Sandy Kovach [00:08:52]:
Okay. So you're talking about 2 completely different scenarios, which both worked well depending on your stage in life. So what people need to figure out is their obligations, their stage in life, and to be realistic because when you got little kids and especially if you got little toddlers, you wanna come and wake you up or something like that.
Lanée Blaise [00:09:10]:
Pets do that too.
Sandy Kovach [00:09:11]:
Pets too. Yes. Yes. Come lay on your face, smack
Lanée Blaise [00:09:14]:
in your face, pull
Sandy Kovach [00:09:15]:
on your ear. You're dreaming that somebody's pulling on your ear, but it really is unknown. Right. Yeah. So in that case, you would suggest maybe a little nighttime routine or something.
Lanée Blaise [00:09:27]:
Because, Sandy, you and I were kinda talking about this before we even started today, how you said you have to know what works for you. And not everything smooshes into a formula. What works for me and at my age, first of all, may not have even worked for me personally at a different age, but definitely may not work for you or someone else who's listening. Yeah. Exactly. So you kinda have to, we love that word tweak, but you have to tweak it, you know, and you have to you said trial and error too, earlier to me this morning.
Sandy Kovach [00:09:54]:
Trial and error. What does work and what doesn't work? And as your schedule changes or your lifestyle changes, sometimes you go through different things. Now for me, I get up early, and I also stay up late because I yeah. Because I do my other this work during the day and I have my nighttime radio job. I don't have a lot of downtime. So what would you suggest? Something in the middle of the day or do I need to do something in the beginning of the day?
Lanée Blaise [00:10:18]:
Oh, that's a good question. I still say something even as simple as, and the fact that you mentioned radio. A lot of people wake up with the radio or at least they used to and they might wanna move back to that type of thinking Because radio shows, morning shows, many times are fun and funny and uplifting and laughter. You get a little information, but you also sometimes get some little positivity sprinkled in, things like that for your day. Yeah. It can be as simple as that. That's the big part of today's episode. It doesn't have to be some long outrageous routine.
Lanée Blaise [00:10:53]:
Something beautiful to drop down into your life can be all that you need.
Sandy Kovach [00:10:58]:
So one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day is always been one of my favorite quotes. I like that. One more time. One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. So I think that whether you're talking about if you have the time to lay in bed, look at your Instagram feed, or if you pop right up or you go running or whatever you do. Let's say you exercise in the morning, you go work out, are you go on a walk or run listening to like a positive podcast Yes. Like this Yeah. Something like that.
Sandy Kovach [00:11:30]:
Yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Or listen to the good news of the day all the time at 6:40. Just a little plug for them. I mean, it's all positive. So find something like that. Find something that you can incorporate, whether it's exercise or just listening in the background or even driving to work.
Sandy Kovach [00:11:54]:
Get your positivity in there.
Lanée Blaise [00:11:56]:
Now I have something to confess. It's in my head from when I was a little kid, and maybe I am just a little nostalgic softy, but I love thinking about things from the perspective of when we're little kids.
Sandy Kovach [00:12:06]:
Mhmm.
Lanée Blaise [00:12:07]:
Every morning when I was a little kid, I don't even think I had a clock in my bedroom, but let alone not an alarm clock. And I'm definitely old enough where there weren't smartphones.
Sandy Kovach [00:12:16]:
But but every morning, my mother would come into my room
Lanée Blaise [00:12:20]:
and kind of touch my arm and she would sing good morning to you, good morning to you. We're all in our places with sunshiny faces. Now this is the way we start our new day.
Sandy Kovach [00:12:33]:
And, like, if she was already at work and couldn't do it, my grandmother would come and wake me up like that. And as a little kid, it was so sweet
Lanée Blaise [00:12:41]:
and so happy. Your quote said that one positive thought, that was what I had every morning as a little kid. And it didn't guarantee that my day was just gonna be magnificent. But, but it did at least set the tone. It did have a strategy for making me smile and, you know, get me off beautifully.
Sandy Kovach [00:13:02]:
Yeah. And another thing is that's something that we should do as parents, I think. Try to stay positive, especially as your kids are going off to school. And, hey, sometimes they don't wanna go. They're trying not to go. I'm trying to tell you they got a stomachache or whatever. Yeah. And, a lot of times you're trying not to go to work, but you gotta do it.
Sandy Kovach [00:13:21]:
But you gotta go do it. Yeah. But getting that positivity into your head, to your kids' head, not that, like you said, everything's gonna go great. Not that you have to love your job. Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
Lanée Blaise [00:13:32]:
But you you know that you are loved in that case because I have I have another girlfriend, name is Lily. She would have breakfast cooking and clothes putting on for everybody and getting everybody set. And every day she'd say to her kids, because like you said, that part about the, oh, my stomach hurts or I don't wanna go whatever. She'd look at them and she'd smile and she'd say, the face you make is the day you make. And she wanted to see some smiles.
Sandy Kovach [00:13:55]:
I love it.
Lanée Blaise [00:13:56]:
Very simple. One simple little phrase that she'd say. She didn't do the whole singing like my mom did and grandma did, but one little simple phrase to just get them going off. What about this though, Sandy? What about people who are listening who might be saying that they're tired of the word positive?
Sandy Kovach [00:14:17]:
I hear that sometimes, especially because one of my little hashtags is positive pontificator. Oh. Yeah. I know. Because I like to do all the positive quote stuff, but I know not everybody appreciates that. Sometimes they get sick of my stuff.
Lanée Blaise [00:14:30]:
I don't know that if it's that they're sick of the concept. They just might think that the word positive is maybe becoming overused or whatever. But I do really believe that people deep down inside are looking for beauty and power and perspective and uplift. And those things are never gonna be cliche and overused. Right. Optimistic and positive. The only reason I say this is I don't want anyone out there listening to kinda shut down because they're just thinking that those are overused, but it can be very powerful. Do you understand the power of mornings? The power of knowing that the sun is gonna come up yet again every single day for us to enjoy.
Lanée Blaise [00:15:17]:
We're gonna get to embrace a new start, a new fresh way every single day, no matter what happened the day before or the night before.
Sandy Kovach [00:15:26]:
That's absolutely true. But depending on how tired you are when you wake up in the morning, how late you stayed out the night before, how much you've been tossing and turning, the worries that you have rolling around in your mind, you may not be doing that. And that's kind of the elephant in the room. Right? We can we can start out by saying, hey. Be positive. Have a positive thought. Look at your positive Instagram feed. Do all this stuff.
Sandy Kovach [00:15:48]:
But with the worries of the day and being so tired in the morning, very few people wake up and are just like, I've got a ton of energy right now, and I'm gonna go run a marathon, and then I'm gonna, you know
Lanée Blaise [00:15:59]:
Sometimes little kids do.
Sandy Kovach [00:16:00]:
Yeah. Okay. Right. Yeah. Yep. Grown people.
Lanée Blaise [00:16:02]:
Yes.
Sandy Kovach [00:16:03]:
How many grown people do you know do
Lanée Blaise [00:16:05]:
that? 0.
Sandy Kovach [00:16:05]:
And wouldn't they drive you crazy if you knew somebody like that?
Lanée Blaise [00:16:08]:
That's why I say even still I still believe there's something to that 5 minutes, Sandy. Yeah. There is something to it just clicking yourself back in. That whole, you know, pushing through. But just like, once again, with exercise and stuff like that, I don't know too many people who initially love exercise either. But getting into the habit, the routine, and we talked one time too about that 21 day rule. 21 days of just getting into a habit. Maybe we can retrain ourselves to get in the habit of trying to form a good setting, even though we're tired.
Sandy Kovach [00:16:44]:
Alright. You know you're going to be tired, but if you tell yourself I'm going to take these 5 minutes.
Lanée Blaise [00:16:49]:
Yes. And do I still think one of 3 things? Okay. You can go the route of listening to something positive either on the radio or you know, you've got YouTube, Instagram, all kinds of things like that to consciously have something that you know how to click on if necessary to listen to someone else's beautiful message and strong message come through to you if you don't have it in you. Because I don't know if you know, but there's a power of even things going into your brain, whether they're positive or negative that can affect your everything. Yes. Whether you're fully conscious or not. But pushing that good stuff into your brain, either through YouTube or Instagram or reading a little book, or if you have a little devotional to start your day or end your day. Humor.
Lanée Blaise [00:17:35]:
We talked about humor is another one that laughing can actually wake you up also. Right?
Sandy Kovach [00:17:40]:
I mean, that's true.
Lanée Blaise [00:17:41]:
It has dopamine. It has something that gives you a euphoria. It actually does physical things to your body. So humor and laughing.
Sandy Kovach [00:17:48]:
Funny memes. Just yes. There are pages on Facebook or people you can follow on Twitter or Instagram that are just do funny memes. Whatever your style is. Clean funny memes or, you know,
Lanée Blaise [00:17:59]:
it doesn't have to be. Dirty one. No. Or pet ones, you're talking about some of those ones with cats and dogs and stuff that are just hilarious.
Sandy Kovach [00:18:06]:
Exactly. Or just funny cat videos. Come on. Who doesn't love a funny cat video?
Lanée Blaise [00:18:10]:
Exactly. Even if you
Sandy Kovach [00:18:11]:
don't like cats. Yeah. Their ways are interesting.
Lanée Blaise [00:18:14]:
Little things like that. This is not rocket science that we're pushing, but it is something that you might not have thought about as a tool for your own happiness and joy. And then, so that's, you know, that's, you know, positive affirmations, laughter, humor. The last one is to consider prayer. Prayer is something that is powerful and can make changes in your life or can make changes in you. It can set our minds on a beautiful course in an upward direction, kind of like having a mattress stuffed full of cash and you didn't even realize you could use that resource. It's right there at your fingertips. And the prayer can be as simple as, please, just God be with me today, may I listen well, speak well, eat well, be well, sleep well, love well, live well, do good things, make good choices.
Lanée Blaise [00:19:04]:
Amen. You know, there you go. Thank you, God. You know, just and and again, thanks because I know that that's another one. Prayer can be a cliche if we're not careful, but it can also be a tool if we're genuine with it, if we really believe it. And this is Denzel Washington.
Sandy Kovach [00:19:21]:
Oh, you're talking about Denzel.
Lanée Blaise [00:19:25]:
Denzel Washington had a speech that I got the luxury. I didn't read it. I got to hear him say it on YouTube. And it was just
Sandy Kovach [00:19:34]:
He wasn't talking directly to you?
Lanée Blaise [00:19:36]:
Not this time.
Lanée Blaise [00:19:38]:
His wife be upset. No. My husband be upset. Everybody loses. No. But the
Lanée Blaise [00:19:45]:
way he said it, of course, I cannot do justice, but I am gonna go ahead and tell you even if you just listen to this every morning, you are set. What he said in that speech was, when you wake up in the morning, say thank you. Thank you for grace. Thank you for mercy. Thank you for understanding, for wisdom, for parents, for love. Thank you for kindness, for humility, for peace. Thank you for prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what's already yours.
Lanée Blaise [00:20:21]:
That's how I live my life and one of the reasons why I am where I am today.
Sandy Kovach [00:20:27]:
Wow. Denzel.
Lanée Blaise [00:20:28]:
And you know I didn't do it justice. You know he's got that voice. You know? Well, I
Sandy Kovach [00:20:31]:
was picturing him saying it. I hope you don't mind.
Lanée Blaise [00:20:34]:
But, that's what you have to do. That is inspiration in a bucket right there for you. Yeah. That's the uplift.
Sandy Kovach [00:20:42]:
It's a lot about that gratitude that we have talked about so many times. And we don't wanna make that a cliche, the gratitude thing either, but he is expressing gratitude. Yes. And we need to express gratitude. How many people, like you said, think about, I woke up another day? People are thinking about I'm so tired. I wanna go back under the covers. People aren't thinking about, well, I'm awake.
Lanée Blaise [00:21:01]:
Yes. And I'm alive.
Sandy Kovach [00:21:02]:
And I'm alive. It's a shift in perspective. We're not promised every day when we don't know. We're all going at some point.
Lanée Blaise [00:21:09]:
That's true. And that's one of those things where, like, a lot of things we've said today, we talk about the fact that it could be taken as a cliche. But I really hope and pray that you start really thinking about them more as building blocks
Sandy Kovach [00:21:24]:
Yeah.
Lanée Blaise [00:21:24]:
And things that are tried and true. And by no means do we wanna say that because you have a positive attitude, you're gonna have a great day. Everything's gonna go well. And at the same token, because there are many times Lanee has gotten up with a negative attitude.
Sandy Kovach [00:21:39]:
Not you.
Lanée Blaise [00:21:40]:
Oh, yes. Oh. And had, how about this? And sometimes I had, I don't want to go there. I don't like that. I don't want to do it. I don't even want to get up. Blah, blah, blah. And do you know that sometimes I was still blessed enough to have had a good day or a good experience, even with that nasty attitude? So it doesn't always do like a plus b equals c formula
Sandy Kovach [00:22:01]:
Magic formula. No. But it definitely is a shift in your attitude that can make you see things differently.
Lanée Blaise [00:22:08]:
That's all we want.
Sandy Kovach [00:22:10]:
And that's the whole, again, back to we want to imagine ourselves having a change in perspective and using these little tweaks so we can get through life with whatever it throws at us, whatever fires we need to put out.
Lanée Blaise [00:22:24]:
Yeah. Because there will be some. We know that there will be some. Sometimes too, even even in the Bible and in Psalms, it says, be still and know that I'm God. Sometimes you just need to be still and not even worry about if you're tired or worry about being positive or worry about all the positive. Just be still and soak in life.
Sandy Kovach [00:22:46]:
Another thing that we just touched on a little bit, I feel like I want to say before we wrap up here, is the power of movement, the power of exercise in the morning, if you can fit that into Yes. Can really change it because that is such a mood booster. And it's so healthy. It's like the healthiest thing that anybody can do for themselves. Right.
Lanée Blaise [00:23:06]:
Getting that blood flowing in your body that you've
Lanée Blaise [00:23:09]:
been given Another one I'm gonna tack onto that, jump on that is stretching. I've told you about I've had the foot surgeries and everything like that. My foot doctor, my podiatrist is like, you have to stretch every single morning for the rest of your life. I'm like, oh my god. Oh. And I fought it, but now it's a habit, and it honestly takes less than 5 minutes. I guess, technically, affirmations while I'm doing it. Yeah.
Lanée Blaise [00:23:36]:
And stretching it makes my little achy back. I feel so much better. So stretching your body, doing the exercise, getting your blood flowing, stretching your mind, it's just all good.
Sandy Kovach [00:23:48]:
Yes. And making sure that you have that time set aside in your morning for those things you wanna do. The stretching, exercising, positive affirmations, finding funny stuff on Instagram, whatever it is, And also having as much stuff as you can, like, on autopilot in case things do go wrong, like, you know you have to leave your house in such and such a time in case there's extra traffic or you need to put something right by the door so you can pick it up and walk out, whether it's, you know, your laptop, your phone, your keys, know where everything is.
Lanée Blaise [00:24:21]:
What you're saying is kind of equipping yourself.
Sandy Kovach [00:24:23]:
Equipping yourself. Yeah.
Lanée Blaise [00:24:25]:
If you're gonna get on a motorcycle, what is one thing that you need to do before you get on the motorcycle?
Sandy Kovach [00:24:30]:
Helmet.
Lanée Blaise [00:24:31]:
Thank you. Put your helmet on, equip yourself for if something happens that you didn't expect or want to happen. Right.
Sandy Kovach [00:24:40]:
Because traffic, you know. A little pebble in the middle because you know, a
Lanée Blaise [00:24:44]:
pebble can make a motorcycle pop wrong. Equipping yourself, strengthening yourself, daily inner strengthening, pushing good stuff into yourself so that hopefully, the hope is that good stuff will come out and that as much of a good day, your chances go up of you having a good day.
Sandy Kovach [00:25:01]:
Right? Your odds go up. Mhmm.
Lanée Blaise [00:25:03]:
You're playing the numbers and you're pushing good stuff in and believing that that will make your outcome better or stronger, and you'll be ready for things.
Sandy Kovach [00:25:13]:
Alright. Are we ready for takeaway time?
Lanée Blaise [00:25:15]:
Yes, we are. Again, I love takeaway time. In this one, I want it to be a little bit different. I want you to think of this takeaway as what if you had superpowers, and you used your superpowers every day. So there's the power of mornings. You kind of alluded to that before the power of that knowingness that you have your fresh start, your new day, your new beginning. And there's a power of inviting love and gratitude and humor and fresh perspective into your day and into your life every single day. These are easy takeaways.
Lanée Blaise [00:25:59]:
It's still, again, that same one, 5 minutes. You know, we're asking you. And now you might say, well, Linnae, and Sandy, you know, you've asked us for 5 minutes for bringing in uplifting things into your life, and you've asked for 5 minutes for stretching and exercise and things like that. But if you've even talked about merging those 5 minutes into one thing, but it's something. Start with something and continue it, and it can become a good, healthy, helpful habit.
Sandy Kovach [00:26:25]:
So that we can imagine ourselves.
Lanée Blaise [00:26:27]:
Imagine ourselves opening our eyes, blinking the sleep away and really learning to love what mornings represent, which is a new chance to start a new day in a beautiful, blessed, uplifting way, and a chance to set the tone of our day.
Sandy Kovach [00:26:50]:
Thanks for listening. Now we'd like to hear from you. Got an idea for the show? Want to share your story or just say hello? Make sure you connect with us. You can do that at imagineyourselfpodcast.com, and we'll talk to you again next time when we have something new to imagine.
