088: Upgrade Your Appreciation

Today’s show is about appreciation…. but not in the way you’ve heard about appreciation before! I share my morning routine with appreciation so you can hear how it really works and see how it may make you feel. This quick episode is great for anyone that wants to raise their vibration of happiness and appreciation in the morning or someone who wants to shift or implement their current routine. thanks for listening and sharing with your friends! xo, Betsy Transcript: Welcome to the art of living day. I’m your host, Betsy Pake. And this podcast is designed to share interviews and new ideas to help you redefine what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. everybody. Welcome to the show. All right. So today I wanted to do this show, because I met with a girlfriend this morning, we went out for coffee, I hadn’t seen her, like in a couple years, and we got talking about morning routines. And I was saying that several years ago, probably three or four years ago, I had a very specific morning routine that I did, right. So I would get up, I would feed my dogs, you know, that whole rigmarole. And then I would read for 20 minutes, I would meditate, I would visualize, like I had these very strict and structured way of doing things. Now at that time of my life, I was pretty strict and structured about lots of things. And that’s okay, that’s the season I was at in my life. But since then, I’ve learned a little bit more, I’ve learned to relax a little bit about things. And I’ve learned that things that make me happy, may not always be the same every single day. And I was doing that morning routine, so that I would get happy, right? So that I would be doing something that would be helping me that I would be learning something new every day, all of those things, which are super important. But every day, it really changes for me. And so I wanted to talk about that a little bit. Because the way that I do one thing in particular, sort of surprised her. And I thought, in a good way surprised her in a good way. And I thought I’m gonna share that with you guys. Because maybe you’ve heard of this thing that I’m going to tell you about, but you don’t do it in the way that I do. And maybe the way that I do could help you. Okay, so here’s the thing. So now in the morning, when I wake up, I get up and I do my deal with my animals and feed them and all of that stuff. But instead of having like a super structured like I read, I do this, I meditate, blah, blah, blah, I really do the next right thing that feels good, because my goal every morning is to get in a really happy place. So that when I start work, I have energy behind it, that comes from a place of alignment and joy and happiness. So I was telling her that I will not record a podcast if I’m not feeling happy. That’s what comes sometimes my podcasts come out on Tuesdays and sometimes Wednesdays and sometimes. I mean, I think a couple weeks ago, there was even one that came out on a Saturday morning, because I wait until I feel really good. Now I have the flexibility to be able to do that, right? Because it’s my podcast is my show. But my point was I wait until the energy behind it is really what I want it to be. Okay, so here’s the thing that I do that’s different. We talked about gratitude. And I think that gratitude is underappreciated. I also think that people may do gratitude in a way that doesn’t really bring them the full amount of joy that it could. So back in the day, when I was really structured, I would write down 10 things I was happy for typically, it would be about 10, you know, eight to 15 things that I was happy for. And I would write down stuff like I’m really grateful for my animals,