The 1 Billion Dollar Morning Routine Habits of the Worlds Most Successful People

We've all heard that if you could win the morning you could win the day. One of the ways to doing it is to create regular rituals and routines so you don't have to think about what you need to do. And if you can set up routines and habits, especially early in the day, you could benefit from this science momentum and create positive momentum as opposed to being reactive like how a lot of people do. They pick up their phone the first thing and they start reacting and driving distraction and reaction as opposed to proactively spending time with self-care and self-love and having a vision and a direction for your day. So let's get into it. Now as I jump into this again, this is my ideal day. So sometimes I can't do all of this but I could do as many as I can. So the first thing I do when I wake up is I recall my dreams. When you're dreaming is that you're actually processing and integrating and working on solutions your subconscious mind to the things that you're focusing on during the daytime but most people forget their dreams. After that, I get out of bed and I make the bed. Okay and now this is something that is obvious that most of you do but if you don't do it, take two minutes and make your bed because that's a success habit, right? If we're talking about positive momentum, the science momentum, getting things done, checking things off, doing it with excellence, then make your bed. It's worth the one or two minutes because again, how you do anything is how you do everything and have a good check mark on something like making your bed is very powerful because it teaches you to be able to do something really well and excellent like they do in the military. And the other benefit is when you come back at the end of the day, you come back to success. You come back to your bed already made. After that, what I'll do is I'll go into the kitchen and I'll have a tall glass of water because you know we we use a lot of water and most of us are very dehydrated at night. I'll take my supplements there. I take my probiotics which is the big one because your gut is your second brain. We talk about quick brain, you know, being your brain in your head but you also have incredible amount of nerve cells in your gut and so I want to make sure that's being fed and healthy so I take my probiotics. Then what I do is I do my breathing, right? I'm thinking about the things I'm focusing on here. I'm thinking about excellence. I'm thinking about hydration. I'm thinking about oxygen. Whatever your breathing technique is, I focus on breathing. So whether it's box breathing or alpha breathing, whether it's Wim Hof's method, I do a breathing technique because I want to fully oxygenate my body and you know my brain which is obviously part of my body also as well and maybe we could do another episode dedicated towards that. I do my meditation in the morning and also later in the afternoon or evening sometimes before I go to bed but I always do an early morning meditation. I do it for about 20 minutes. Mindfulness is so important so I want to have a clear mind as I enter the day and so meditation puts me in that space. 15-20 minutes. Some of you use Headspace app. Some of you use the Muse device. Use some kind of technology. I meditate then. From there I do one or two minutes of just movement and this could be different. It could be calisthenics. It could be burpees but I just want to get into my body after I meditate and so I move my body pretty intensely for a couple minutes and if I'm in a hotel room, maybe I'm just doing jumping jacks but I'm basically doing crunches for two minutes straight. I'm just waking my body. That is not my exercise for the day. It's just for me to get my heart rate beating and getting some movement in my body. From there I take a shower and it's a cold shower and I do believe in cold therapy. It works for me. It helps me to reset my nervous system. Ice baths are very powerful because it helps. Like if you hit your knee, you put ice on it to reduce swelling and inflammation. Cold therapy is a very powerful way of resetting your nervous system and reducing inflammation so I take a cold shower. When I get out, I go through my normal routine of shaving and brushing my teeth, all that good stuff. Then I make a tea and my favorite tea is like a brain tea. It's a combination of gotu kola, ginkgo, lion's mane, some MCT oil and some other gems. As I go through it, I sip my tea and that's where I write my journal and I'm a big believer in journaling. I've been doing it since I've been in college and I feel like some of the most amazing thinkers of our time and in history, they journal and they keep diaries. I mean you think about Edison, Einstein, Da Vinci. I mean their journals are priceless, right? From there, right from journaling since I'm writing and I like writing. There's a lot of studies saying that handwriting is better than actually typing. Then since I'm writing already, I go to my to-do list and we all have an ongoing, most of us have an ongoing to-do list of things that we need to get done. For me, the big thing is I just want to be able to accomplish as a total win three things for work and three things personally. They don't have to be all epic big things but I just feel like that if I could get three of my work goals done on my to-do list and three of my personal things to do, then it's been a great day. It's kind of like my friend Clay Hebert talks about a champagne moment. It's like your champagne moment when you're looking back at the end of the day saying, yes, today was a great day. Today, I crushed it. Today, I won. In addition to my to-do list, I also have a list to feel list because I feel like a lot of who we are is our states and emotions. I think I don't want it to be just where I happen to feel a certain way by accident. It's by its design. It's the metaphor I always talk about, the difference between a thermometer and a thermostat. A thermometer reacts to the environment and I feel like sometimes if I act like a thermometer, I'm just going to react to everything that's going on in my world and I just might have some good positive states as opposed to being a thermostat where I set in advance a standard, a goal for my to-feel list, certain feelings I want to feel throughout the day so I can design it that way. To feel love, to feel curious, to feel bewilderment, connection, gratitude. I also have besides a to-do list and a to-feel list, I also look at my to-be list. Who do I want to be today? Do I want to be a good partner? Do I want to be a good friend? A good leader? A good teacher? A good coach? I feel into what I want to be that day because it's not just about, it's kind of cliche but there's a truth to it. We're not human doings. We're human beings. Who do I want to be today? From there, if I have time, I will make time for the things that are most important is I read. I read for about 20-30 minutes. So after I do my reading, then I go and I make my brain smoothie, brain berries which are your blueberries and avocado and your leafy vegetables and water and everything. When I'm done with that smoothie, I go through my brain training in one of our quick learning online programs at quicklearning.com. We have an online speed reading course, online memory course, thinking course, academic success course. That's where I do my brain training and I like to do it in the morning because I want to jumpstart my brain, my mind if you will, and also my body and that's the goal for me in that focusing in the morning. So after I do certain brain trainings which are all in our programs, then I really start my day.