The Truth about Morning Routines

Summary

You’ve heard a thousand times that having a morning routine can help you build the foundation of a successful life. The question is: what kind of morning routine?

Transcript

Modeling the morning routines of your personnel here is a surefire way of preventing you from becoming like them. Let's get to it.

[INTRO] Hey, I'm Leon Castillo, founder of sunmaster when high performance training company that helps entrepreneurs scale their businesses by solving their southern bottling their own performance, which was formed the unproductive, overwhelming unfocused entrepreneurs into laser focused business athletes that can achieve in one day, what they previously achieved in one week.

So today, I want to talk about why I truly believe you should not be trying Elon Musk's routine or Jeff Bezos, or markers or aliens or whatever, because I see time and time again, people willing to reach the next level and really unleash peak performance in the lives by modeling what other top performers do in their fields. And this is a massive recipe for disaster. For several reasons. This video is about telling you why this is not a sensible thing to do, and more importantly, how I suggest you start building your own morning routine that actually works for you. Now, why do I think this is a bad, very bad idea? Well, first, because you don't really want to become the person you actually think you want to become. What I'm trying to say is that your definition of success is not the same definition of success. Elon Musk has, or Jeff Bezos, or whoever it is that you admire most, your definition of success is entirely unique to you. And if you haven't started thinking about it, you better start, because the sooner you have a clearer idea of what you're working towards, this is going to be for you to start creating that into reality. And the problem we're trying to emulate what other people do is that we only see a part of their lives, we have a partial view of everything they do. And we do not see all the struggles or loneliness, the bad moments they have gone through in order to become who they are. So if we start doing the morning routine of someone we think we want to become without having a clear picture of what it is that they actually do. And why is that important, we will eventually burn out because one we lack information and to their definition of success is not ours, we need to find hours and then start building and to because if you start implementing Elon Musk, or to Jeff Bezos routine or whatever, you have information of what is their current point in their lifetimes, 45 or 50, or whatever, and you're not 45 or 50, you are younger. So the things you need to do in order to get to the next level are not the same things they need to do in order to steel priming themselves for peak performance, different points in their lifetimes, decent necessities, different demands on their time and attention request different things in the morning. So it's not always because they're heading towards a destination you're not headed, but also because they're at a different point in their lives. So it doesn't really make sense that you do what they do. So what is the solution, the solution is building, the best morning routine you can think of, for yourself for your goals for your success, because no one else is in your head. And therefore no one else will benefit as much as you have this exercise of building the perfect routine for yourself. But this said, there's a few things that I truly believe you should incorporate, because science has proven that they definitely help you kickstart a day with the right foot. And before we dive deep into this, remember to like, subscribe and hit the bell, we release a few videos every week. So you can build your business and scale it up by transforming your personal performance. And also because it is the right thing to do that you love this channel. So please hit the bell. Now there's four things that I truly believe everybody can do. And if you do them consistently, you'll see a massive change in your day to day. So the first thing is signal in your brain that the day has started. And you achieve this by going outside and getting sensory flow and optic flow, which means that your eyes need to start seeing things moving and start seeing light. And that's how your eyes naturally tell your brain that day has started. And why is this important? Because this is when the Euclidean rhythms start working out when all your bodies start following the natural biorhythms based on the sun. So if you wake up and you just go into a dark room, you may fool your brain and disoriented and denied you may not be sleeping you may not have good sleep because the brain never quite understood. When did the day begins. So that's number one thing, get outside get light, listen to saying what things moving so your brain knows it is time to start the day two, something I truly recommend you do is have some sort of mechanism to remind yourself of your vision, whatever it is they decide to do. It can be visualization manifestation writing your goals doesn't matter. The thing is that is very easy to get distracted to get swayed away by all the demands on our attention. So we need to make the conscious decision every single day to build ourselves up to understand what we're headed to know that we're actually barreling towards something that is meaningful to us. So every day I made the conscious decision of building that future image of myself that higher self, all of the things in herself will have built in 10 years time, right? Remind yourself of your vision have some mechanism that can help you to go where you want to go faster. Three, something that counteracts the natural stress response of your body. See, in a couple of hours after you wake up, there's a natural boost in cortisol, which is a stress hormone in your body that is natural, it serves a body to wake up and start all the bodily processes. But most people if they're not training, high performance, they get unnecessary stress in the morning, they eat the wrong food, look at the smartphone too many times they over caffeinated themselves, whatever it is, there's a bunch of things that folks do that most entrepreneurs do that do not help them get in a calm state to work. And here you can do deep breathing, you can do cold showers, you can do deep tissue massage, you can do a bunch of stuff that help you relax, liberate tension from your body and counteract the natural stress mechanism within your body. And then finally, for something that grounds you that detaches yourself from your emotions and your thoughts. And here of course, the best bet is meditation. I try to meditate every single day for 12 minutes, add the being of the day, and that gives you the ability to stay grounded that boosts your cognition that rewires your brain that gives you the ability to focus for longer. So meditation is huge one because in a world that once you frenetic and frenzy, being able to meditate consistently will give you an edge overdose that can't. So now this was useful. It is very important that you not imitate things, especially if you don't have a clear picture of what it is you're imitating and try to have a routine that takes you at your current state to the next level, whatever that next level is and seek to understand your physiology signal your brain that you have already woken up, try to counteract a natural stress response from your body. Give yourself time to ground yourself through meditation and remind yourself of the vision you're working towards. See you in the next video.