Welcome to the Mindset Bay podcast.
If you want more confidence and motivation then you're in the
right place every week at your dose of self development advice
and strategies. I'm your host Perry Richardson,
life coach, N OP practitioner, motivational speaker and mental
health advocate. My mission is hope you find more
happiness and take more action in your life.
Now let's begin. Hello, hello, hello, babe.
Welcome to the Mindset Babe podcast.
In today's episode, I'm going to share 3 simple ways to boost
your energy that I started doing probably in the beginning of
this year. I wanted to completely shift my
energy because I was tired when I woke up.
I was tired during my work, I was tired after work, I was
tired before my period, I was tired after my period and during
my period. I was just tired.
I just always had low energy and I wanted to not have that
problem anymore. And so I want to share three
things that I have been doing every single day for the past, I
guess six months now since we're in June.
Happy June. Hope June is treating you right.
Sending you so much love. I can't believe we are halfway
through the year. It's literally so crazy.
Time does not wait for anyone. So it's going to say that Are
you waiting for time? Are you waiting for the right
season to change your life to do the thing?
Let me be the first to tell you life isn't waiting for you.
You got to get on the train. We got to go.
Time is fine if you haven't noticed.
But in today's episode, I want to talk about energy in three
simple ways to increase your energy.
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these three simple ways to increase your energy?
And I want to start off, they're not sexy and they're not
complicated. They're very simple and they
work and I truly believe every single one of them is actually a
act of self love because energy is self love.
The way you take care of your body determines the energy you
have available for your life. Alright number one, this list is
so simple so do not make fun of me because I was not doing these
things #1 take your vitamins. I never thought I was going to
be a vitamin girly because I hate swallowing pills.
I hate it. I feel like it always just gets
stuck for me. And my husband has always been
into vitamins and supplements. Like every single day.
I swear to you guys, there's an Amazon package with some
vitamins, some supplements in it.
And meanwhile I'm over here like pretending vitamins like don't
exist. And then I turned 30 and I
thought, OK, maybe I should start acting like adult, start
taking some vitamins and start taking care of my body a little
bit better. So basically I let my husband do
all the research and like all the things to find me the best
vitamin since that's like his jam.
He loves to do that. And I let my husband be my
personal vitamin dealer. And so now I take a daily
multivitamin in beef organ supplements.
And I was literally shocked by the difference on how much I
felt, how much energy I actually had.
Like I had so much energy like the week before my period.
And typically I'm mad and I'm like irritated.
I'm like, get out of my face and I'm just so sluggish.
I felt inspired. I felt energized.
It was so crazy how much energy I got back just from taking some
vitamins in. The crazy thing, I think it's
all of these things like put together, but I don't need
coffee in the morning. Like I do love a good cup of
coffee. I have like my own espresso
machine. We like ground the beans.
Like we are very obsessed with our coffee in this house.
But I could honestly go a whole day without coffee, without
caffeine and still feel fine. My brain is still alert.
And I think it's probably a a combination of all three things
I'm sharing in today's podcast episode.
But vitamins, vitamins, vitamins, vitamins.
I'm taking beef organ supplements by all right, I had
to go through like my Amazon purchases.
It's Bloomio BLOOMEO babe, I'll blink that in the description
box for you guys. It's a beef organ complex for a
woman. And I love it because it
supports your hormone balance, your cycle health, and really
helps you get that energy. And it's great for your skin and
nails. And then also, I just take a
daily vitamin. I do gummies because it's hard
for me to swallow. And I do black girl vitamins.
They really sold me on that marketing.
I saw like an ad on Facebook and I was like, oh, and I clicked on
it and I was reading it had great reviews.
And so those are the two vitamins I take and I will link
those up in the description box. But I think a lot of women are
deficient, especially right in iron, magnesium, vitamin D,
vitamin A. So many women are vitamin
deficient and we need these vitamins.
These vitamins are the building blocks to our energy.
So that's the first thing. Are you taking vitamins?
You should. And if you are taking vitamins,
are you taking them consistently?
All right, I told you, this list is super simple.
Number one, take vitamins. Number two, you don't even have
to pay for anything. Get more sleep.
I know, I know, I know. Nobody wants to hear this.
Everyone wants the magic pill. Everyone wants more energy.
Nobody wants to go to bed. What's going on with that?
And I hear this all the time, like night time is the only time
I have for myself. So then you stay up late, you
scroll, you watch Netflix watching one more episode, then
another, then another, because this is the only time you have
for yourself. Then all of a sudden it's
midnight, and then it's 1:00, and then the next day you're
exhausted. I really want you to listen to
this with so much love. With so much love.
I understand the temptation, right?
You worked all day, you take care of everyone else, and
finally the house is quiet. Finally, no one needs anything
from you. And you think this is my time,
but this is the problem. But I really want you to hear
you're stealing energy from your future self.
You're stealing energy from your future self and your future self
is paying the price. I work full time, I run a
business, I have clients, I have family, I have friends.
I even post 2 podcast episodes every single week.
And if you've been following me on Instagram, you know I've been
posting more. Follow me on Instagram.
The mindset, babe. And in fact, I'm recording this
right now before I have to head into work, but I still protect
my sleep every single night because I know how important it
is. I want you to think about your
phone. This is like the best example I
can think of. Imagine waking up every morning
and your phone is at 25% and then you have to like go to work
and like the whole day. You're like trying to play catch
up to like charge your phone battery.
But it's hard because you're like using your phone like on
Instagram and you're listening to podcasts and like doing all
the things like you're using the phone, but at the same time
you're trying to like catch up because your battery didn't
charge. This is you.
So many people wake up on a 25% batter battery because they
didn't let themselves fully charge at night.
I have an electric car and if I don't charge my car at night,
I'm not going anywhere the next day.
You have to make sure you charge yourself at night.
Please get some sleep. I think a lot of people think
I'm up in the middle of the night doing things I am not.
I have a strict bedtime. I am in the bed by 9:30, asleep
by 10, sleep by 10. I go to bed at 10 and I wake up
at 5:00 AM Monday through Friday.
That's still 7 hours of sleep in the days where I don't have
anything to do. Like I'll get home and I'll just
be on the couch and I'll just be on my phone and I'll just be
watching Netflix. And it's so crazy how much time
I still have. Like last week I got home and me
and my husband, we were just on the couch and it was like 3
hours, like 6 from 9. Just three hours.
Just went by watching TV and it was I guess kind of nice to
relax, but it was just so crazy how much time I just slept.
Fly right by me. And so you can spend 3 hours
after work not doing shit. Three hours.
That's a long time of not doing a lot of nothing.
And so allow yourself to still go to sleep and to go to bed,
because your sleep truly impacts your mood.
It impacts your memory, your focus, your decision making,
your emotional regulation. And so when you're not getting
enough sleep, there's an exhausted version of you not
operating at full capacity. No wonder you're not getting
your To Do List done. You're not operating at full
capacity. No wonder it's so hard for you
to get like shut down and push away the negative thoughts
because you're not operating at full capacity.
No wonder every little thing gets you sensitive and makes you
want to cry and you get frustrated and angry and
irritated because you're not operating at full capacity,
because you're running on empty. And so when you sleep, you have
a opportunity to be at full capacity, to have 100% charge
battery so you can actually make it through the day.
Self love is not bubble baths and getting your nails done and
getting your eyelashes done. Self love is going to sleep,
taking care of your body, watching that one episode left
of Bridger 10. Whatever it is, that's not self
love. It's not.
I'm saying this because I love you and Netflix and Instagram
and Tiktok, all these things is literally killing yourself love,
killing your opportunity to be motivated, to be inspired to get
the things done all right. Are you ready for #3 And this is
something I need to personally hear myself.
Move your body. This third thing has always
increased my energy movement and I think this one surprises
people the most. Especially if you don't work out
or never had the experience of going to the gym, moving your
body and actually feeling energized and refreshed
afterwards. I swear it's true.
You will feel refreshed afterwards because you get
energy from movement. I want you to think about a
river. When the water is flowing, it's
fresh, it's clean, it's alive. But when the water sits still,
it gets stagnant. Stuff starts getting in the
river, it gets dirty. There's like a lot of plastic.
The river turns into like a different color because that
river doesn't have that constant movement to get the gook and get
the things out of that body of water.
And your energy works the same way.
Movement creates momentum. I'm a huge believer a body in
motion stays in motion. And most people think motivation
creates action, but often it's the action that creates
motivation. I'm going to say that again,
most people think motivation creates action, but it's the
action that actually creates the motivation, not the other way
around. I have two stories I want to
share. The first one is my husband and
I. We love to go on sunset walks
and we'll walk for about like an hour and we never want to go.
We're like sitting on the couch like yesterday.
This was literally me yesterday. We were sitting on the couch.
We had our frozen pizza and we're like, like, we were like
watching YouTube videos, like memes, whatever, fail army.
And we're like eating the pizza and we're like, oh, we should've
moved our body. Like we don't want to do it.
Like we weren't motivated, but we're like, OK, we're going to
do anyway. Like we serve like 20 minutes
until like sunset. Let's start getting ready.
We weren't motivated to go on the walk.
And then we went on the walk and we walked for about 3045
minutes. And when we got home, we had so
much energy. We ended up cleaning the
kitchen, cleaning the counters, doing the dishes, putting away
the laundry. All of a sudden we had the
motivation to clean and be productive.
That only happened because I took the action of moving my
body. And the second story I want to
talk about on occasions, sometimes I babysit.
I babysit a professional athlete, their child.
And I remember one day I came like super early because he was
like training for a fight. And I was there super early and
I was like, have fun. And he turned around and looked
at me and he said, this isn't going to be fun.
And that just was like, wait, what?
It doesn't have to be fun. It doesn't have to be motivating
or inspiring. We get it done.
And that's how a world champion acts, how a professional athlete
plays. They don't go on the field
because they're motivated. They don't go on the field
because it's fun. They go because they are a
champion, because they are a fighter, because they are
athlete. And that's just what they do.
That's just who they are. They don't rely on motivation to
get it done. They just get it done.
That's what I have for you in this podcast episode, 3 Simple
Ways to increase your energy. Number one, take vitamins #2 go
to sleep, please put the phone down and go to bed on time.
Don't make me come to your house and take the phone out of your
hand. Go to sleep and #3 move your
body and you don't have to go to the gym and get our workout.
Like yesterday I didn't go to the gym.
I literally just walked around my neighborhood.
That's what I have for you in today's podcast episode.
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you in the next one. Bye.
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