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Brain hack #1: Wake up right

Brain hack #1: Wake up right

(light music) - [Jessica] So previously, I walked you through my morning magic routine. Here it is again as a reminder. Wake up right. Suit up. Get moving. Fuel your mind. Fuel your soul. Set your course. Fuel your body, And write. Now, after all that nagging I did about prioritizing writing, you probably noticed that there are a few things on this list, seven to be exact, that come before writing. And that's because I found that these specific things actually help me wake up and get into the writing zone. They help with productivity instead of hinder it, so I do them first. But you'll soon find, as we work our way through the morning magic routine, that these steps don't take up a lot of time. You can complete them very quickly. After I wake up, I'm at my computer writing within a half hour, sometimes less, and I found that taking the extra time to do them pays off tenfold in creative output. In this lecture, we're going to talk about the first step in the morning magic routine…

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