We've all heard that if you could win the morning, you could win the day. One of the ways to doing that 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 and 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, 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.
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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 in 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 successful 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 worse than one or two minutes because, again, how you do anything, It's 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 excellence, 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 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 talked about quick brain, you know is your brain in your head, But you also have an incredible amount of nerve cells and your gut. And so I want to make Trump 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 on 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 can do another episode Dedicated to 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 some meditation puts me in that space. 15-20 minutes some of you use headspace have on 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 gives me burpees, But I just want to get into my body after I meditate And so I move it, 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, I'm 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 and 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. Its 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 to my normal routine right of Shaving and brush my teeth a lot of good stuff.
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Then I make tea. And My favorite tea is like a brain tea. You know 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, the journal, and they keep Diaries. I mean If you think about Edison, Einstein? Da Vinci even though their journals are are priceless! right from, there right, from journaling, since I'm writing and I liked writing. There's a lot of studies saying that handwriting is better than actually typing. Then, since I'm writing, already, I'm going 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. And 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! And you know, it's kind of like my friend clay a bear talked 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!" and in addition to my to-do list, I also have a list, to feel list because I feel like, we are a lot of our who we are as our states, and emotions and I think I don't want it to be just Where I happen to feel a certain way by accident, it's but 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 gonna 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 said in advance a standard, a goal, for my to-feel list certain feelings I want to feel throughout the day, so I could design it that way, to feel loved, to feel curious to feel bewilderment, right connection, the gratitude. I also have, besides that to-do list, and to feel list, I also look at my to-be list. Like who do I want to be today? And Do I want to be a good partner? Do I want to be a good friend? and 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...we're not...It's kind of cliche but there's a truth to it. We're not human doings, right? We're human beings! So who don't want to be today? from there, If I have time, I will make time for the things that are most important, I read. I read for about 20-30 minutes. So after my, 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, we have an online speed reading course, an online memory course, A 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, and that focusing in the morning. So after I do certain brain training which are all in our programs, then I really start my day!