Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have not,

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four times a week so that you can improve yourself because if you can

improve yourself, you will improve your life. So if that's what you want to do, get that

subscribe button. Today, I'm going to talk about the perfect morning routine that is backed

by science because everyone talks about morning routines. Cold showers, journaling, working out, all of that stuff, but almost

nobody talks about what's actually happening inside of your brain the first hour that you wake

up and how to actually optimize your brain, your body, and then your mood for the rest of the

day based on neuroscience. because what you do in

that window that first hour determines your motivation your action your stress levels your

cognitive performance for the next 12 to 16 hours and most people waste it but today i'm going to show

you how to program yourself like a neuroscience from the

moment you wake up in the morning. I'm going to go through eight different habits in your morning

routine that you should have. And I guarantee most of these you've never heard of before. As a bonus,

I also created a free worksheet and morning checklist for all eight of these that you can download

and print out to make

sure that you're staying on track. If you want to get it for free, you can go to the perfectmourning.com,

download it for free, print it out, and use that checklist. All right, so let's dive into it. Number one,

you want to delay dopamine for at least 60 minutes. The first hour of your day sets your dopamine baseline.

Dopamine is not just the pleasure chemical. It's the molecule of your drive, your motivation,

and your future pursuit. And so Dr. Anna Lemke, who's a Stanford psychiatrist,

explains that early high dopamine spikes, like looking at social media or email stress

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