Hey,

Welcome back to Sunday Brief, this is issue 4 of my weekly email newsletter for creative professionals where I share my thoughts, inspiration, life lessons and interesting reads from that week.

This week has been a fairly quiet week by my standards, so when you don’t have a million and one things to do at times it can be difficult to stick to a consistent routine that helps us achieve our life goals.

So on the back of that, I found myself reflecting back to some concepts in the book Principles by Ray Dalio. One particular part that stuck with me was to to really achieve what we want, it’s important to view your life more as a designer of a machine and not just a cog in the machine. At the time of reading Principles I took some notes that I think nicely summarize this valuable concepts:

I’m aware that these kind of ‘guru models’ have the risk of being all fluff, but I think a more tangible way to start operating on a ‘designer level’ and not on a ‘cog level’ is to start adding structure and protocols in your day that align with what you love and also what brings you closer to the life you want.

Once you have those, you can easily identify or ‘diagnose’ the things that bring you closer to the life you want and change them accordingly.

So for me personally, I always make time for a variety of health and wellness protocols everyday in the form of a morning routine:

0700 - Wake up

0710 - Hot cold shower therapy

0730 - Mixed fruit and veg smoothie

0740 - Red light therapy (a new addition) with meditation / visualization

0800 - Water with added trace minerals and potentially supplements

0815 - Hot bullet proof coffee

Even though this may seem extreme to some people on top of regular work and life, I religiously stick to this routine everyday as I know in my machine, health and wellness are and will continue to deliver the output I want in life.

So on the back of this, I thought it would be fitting to share a few things that help me operate at peak performance.

A quote by Ray Dalio in Principles

So that’s it for issue #4 of Sunday Brief. I hope you enjoyed this and it brightened up your inbox ☀️Thanks again for taking the time to read and I hope you have a great week!

Kieran

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