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Hey you've completed another module.

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Well done for that.

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Now today I want to talk about the idea of having a routine and building a routine because when you

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have a routine that's really helpful.

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It means that you don't have to think so much about what do you have to do at each point of the

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day.

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So for example I have a morning routine, I actually have a daily routine which I try to stick to as much

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as I can unless I'm traveling or I'm speaking or I'm teaching. So I tend to wake up around the same time about

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7:30. And as soon as I wake up I jump out of bed,

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I brush my teeth and I go for a walk.

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Just getting some air into my brain.

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For some reason I feel like just like I suffocate while I sleep or something, but moving along, getting the

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blood flowing, getting some air into my lungs and then after like about a half an hour walk, I come back

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and I try to do something difficult.

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The first thing that I do during the day is usually something that I want to put off,

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I don't really want to do

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but it's something important, right?

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It's not like you know like paying bills or taxes or something.

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I mean those things do have to be done

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but not like as important as building towards your goal or doing something that's going to further where

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you are right now.

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So I try to get that most disliked thing done first thing because once I've gotten that done then I have

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this huge sense of achievement and if it's something that takes many days to do I'll try to get in at

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least an hour of it.

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So for you if you're learning to code and even putting off like a difficult module or difficult concept

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or something you've been meaning to read up on but you just can't bring yourself to do it,

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do that thing first thing in the morning.

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And once you've gotten over that hurdle you'll feel so proud of yourself 

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having done like the hardest thing of the day.

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Everything else you'll just be able to knock out

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easier. So

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have a try at that trick. And have a think about what you want your daily routine to be like.

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See if you can structure your morning and your day so that you don't have to think about it, but it

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just happens automatically.

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Let me know what your routines are and what has helped you.

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And I hope that this will also help you build up towards a habit of learning to code every day.