Daily Motivations - Habits of the World’s Most Successful People- Morning Routine

Starting point is 00:00:00 Get ready for Las Vegas-style action at BetMGM, the king of online casinos. Enjoy casino games at your fingertips with the same Vegas-drift excitement MGM is famous for when you play classics like MGM Grand Millions. Or popular games like Blackjack, Baccarat, and Roulette. Download the BetMGM Casino app today. BetMGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly. BetMGM.com for T's and C's. 90 plus to wager. Ontario only.

Starting point is 00:00:19 Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BidMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Welcome to Daily Motivations by Tolu Dave, where you get motivated and inspired. 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 could set up routines and habits, especially early in the day, you could benefit from the science momentum and create positive momentum as opposed to being reactive, like how a lot of people do. They pick

Starting point is 00:00:59 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

Starting point is 00:01:29 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 to 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

Starting point is 00:02:04 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 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

Starting point is 00:02:48 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

Starting point is 00:03:33 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 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 doing crunches for two minutes straight. I'm just waking up 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.

Starting point is 00:03:58 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.

Starting point is 00:04:19 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. 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, 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, I like writing. There's a lot of studies

Starting point is 00:05:02 saying that handwriting is better than actually typing. Then since I'm writing already, I'm going to my to-do list. This episode is sponsored by InsideTracker. InsideTracker is the ultra-personalized performance system that analyzes data from your blood, DNA, lifestyle, and fitness tracker to help you optimize your body and reach your health and wellness goals. For a limited time, you can get 25% off the entire Inside Tracker store. Just go to insidetracker.com slash daily motivations. When you do what you love, like running, like racing, like enjoying the great outdoors, you want to do it for life. InsideTracker can help. InsideTracker was founded in 2009 by leading scientists in aging, genetics, and biometrics. Using their patented algorithm, InsideTracker analyzes your bonus data to provide you with a clear picture of what's going on inside you and to offer you science-backed

Starting point is 00:06:14 recommendations for positive diet and lifestyle changes. InsideTracker tracks your progress every day, every step of the way toward reaching your performance goals and living a longer, healthier life. We all want to take charge of our health and wellness. We all are seeking and striving to do all the right things for our body to give us more energy, better sleep, a healthy immune system, or improve our personal performance, and we have the vitality needed to live longer, better, healthier lives. So we can continue doing the things we love for the rest of our lives. But it's confusing out there. There is a barrage and cacophony of biased, misleading, impersonal information that creates doubt and confusion obscuring our way forward.

Starting point is 00:07:18 But as a result, most of us lack three important things to help us get a clear picture of what our bodies look like on the inside. Secondly, a clear measure of whether our diet and exercise choices are helping or hurting. And lastly, a clear idea of who or what to trust when it comes to health, wellness, and performance guidance. This is why InsideTracker is here to help. InsideTracker is the only human performance system that integrates real-time physiomarker data from your fitness tracker with your existing blood and DNA biomarker data track your progress and adjust based on real-time feedback from your body as your body improves your blood biomarkers change to retest every three months and you are good to go. For a limited time, you can get 25% off the entire InsideTracker store. Use our special link as a Daily Motivations listener at InsideTracker.com slash Daily Motivations.

Starting point is 00:08:23 Get yours as soon as possible. Our special link as a Daily Motiv motivations listener is in the show note below. 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 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. And in addition to my to-do list,

Starting point is 00:09:10 I also have a list to feel list because I feel like we are, a lot of who we are is 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 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,

Starting point is 00:09:46 a goal, you know, my, for my to feel list, certain feelings I want to feel throughout the day. So I could design it that way to feel love, to feel curious, to feel bewilderment, right? Connection, gratitude. Um, I also have besides that to do list and a to feel list. I also look at my to be list, like who do I want to be today? And, you know, do I want to be a good partner? list and a 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, you know, we're not, it's kind of cliche, but there's a truth to it.

Starting point is 00:10:20 We're not human doings, right? We're human beings. So 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. And when I'm done with that smoothie, I go through my brain training in one of our quick learning online programs at quicklearning.com.

Starting point is 00:10:51 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, that focusing in the morning.

Starting point is 00:11:07 So after I do certain brain trainings, which are all on our programs, then I really start my day. Thanks for listening. Kindly support the movement of this podcast by supporting us or subscribing to our premium content for more exclusive stuff when you do so you also get a shout out in our next episode thank you

Daily Motivations - Habits of the World’s Most Successful People- Morning Routine

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.