How to Hack Your Mornings, With My Morning Routine’s Benjamin Spall (RECAST)

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🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Mornings. Many of us hate them; some of us love them; all of us want to make the best of them. But how exactly do we do that? First we ask Benjamin Spall, co-author of My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired, about creating the ultimate morning routine. We also talk to Vanessa Marin, a licensed sex therapist (and regular “After Hours” Lifehacker contributor) about why we should occasionally ditch the routine and just do it. And Melissa quizzes Alice about the quirky (and sometimes bizarre) habits (morning and otherwise) of famous artists. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, upgrade listeners, it's Melissa coming to you from Upgrade Headquarters. We'll be back with all new episodes later this month, but for now we wanted to share a favorite from 2018 to kickstart your new year. How to Hack Your Mornings with My Morning Routines, Benjamin Spall. In the meantime, if you have ideas for things you want the upgrade to cover in 2019, get in touch with us. Email us at Upgradeat
0:21.6	at lifehacker.com or leave us a voice message at 347-687-8109. Enjoy. Hello and welcome to the Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:46.1	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker.
0:48.8	And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHacker's deputy editor.
0:51.7	And today we're talking about how to hack your mornings.
0:54.5	What should you do first thing when you wake up in order to have the best chance of having the best day?
0:59.9	We're going to find out.
1:01.7	Our first guest is Vanessa Marin, a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in sexual issues
1:07.1	and a frequent contributor to Lifehacker about why we should drop everything and just do it
1:12.2	in the morning. Just do it. So morning sex actually can increase your productivity. And Benjamin Spall,
1:19.0	co-author of My Morning Routine, How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired. A lot of what I don't like
1:25.6	about the subject is kind of the whole, you know, you have to get up at 5 a.m.
1:29.2	You have to do this. You have to get that. Hello, Alice. Hello, Melissa. Good morning. Good morning to you.
1:33.9	It is 1.38 p.m. Not morning. Nope, not morning. But I'm just waking up. That's my morning routine. I roll out of bed at 122 p.m. Roll into the podcast. Eat a croissant.
1:46.7	So, Alice, tell me about your morning routine.
1:48.7	I've actually become somewhat obsessed with my morning routine.
1:51.1	Really?
1:52.0	The trick really is to get up really early.
1:54.6	I know you've been sounding the get up early alarm.
1:58.5	Yeah.
1:58.9	For low these many months.
2:00.0	Yes.
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