I try to do 5 things each morning.
Realistically, if I hit three out of five, I consider myself having won
the morning. And if you win the morning, you win the day. (See
following quotes)
Step 1. Make Bed (< 3 minutes). This
might seem ridiculous, but bear with me. To quote Naval Admiral William
McRaven, head of JSOC (think Special Ops) during the Osama bin Laden
raid: “If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished
the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and
it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the
end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many
tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that
little things in life matter.”
Step 2. Meditate (10 to 20 minutes). At
least 80% of all guests profiled in Tools of Titans have a daily
mindfulness practice of some type. Sometimes I will do “Happy Body”
mobility exercises from Olympic weightlifter Jerzy Gregorek in place of
meditation. Pattern: Males seem to gravitate to TM (tm.org) and women to
vipassana, but it’s not 100% correlation, of course. The Headspace app
also pops up a lot in my interviews.
Step 3. Do 5 to 10 Reps of Something
(<1 minute). The 5 to 10 reps here are not a workout. They are
intended to “state prime” and wake me up. Getting into my body, even for
30 seconds, has a dramatic effect on my mood and quiets mental chatter.
I like pushups and planche leans with mini-parallettes or, ideally,
pushups on rings (with turn out at the top), which light you up like a
X-mas tree.
Step 4. Prepare “Titanium Tea” (this
name was a joke, but it stuck) (2 to 3 minutes). I prepare loose-leaf
tea in a Rishi glass teapot but you could use a French press. The below
combo is excellent for cognition and fat loss, and I use about 1 flat
teaspoon of each: Pu-erh aged black tea Dragon well green tea (or other
green tea) Turmeric and ginger shavings (often also Rishi brand). Add
the hot water to your mixture and let it steep for 1 to 2 minutes.
Step 5. Morning Pages or 5-Minute
Journal (5 to 10 minutes). I use two types of journaling and alternate
between them: Morning Pages and The 5-Minute Journal (5MJ). The former I
use primarily for getting unstuck or problem solving (what should I
do?); the latter I use for prioritizing and gratitude (how should I
focus and execute?).
With routines, you don’t want your threshold for
“success” to be checking 100% of the boxes. Look for 3/5 wins or 2/5
wins. Otherwise, the human inclination is self-sabotage with “Well, I
miss A or B, so I failed today,” or “Now today is going to be harder”
and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
On a routine he could not do: Ahhh… waking up at 4:45am
consistently like former Navy SEAL Commander Jocko Willink or super
athlete Amelia Boone! I’m a night owl, plain and simple. Fortunately,
not all the world-class performers out there rise with the Amish. There
are plenty of folks, like me, who are barely alive until 11am or later.
Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.
You don’t “succeed” because you have no weaknesses; you
succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing
habits around them.
I wake up probably somewhere between 8:30 and 10 AM; I
tend to stay up late. Then I brew tea, which is typically Pu-erh tea
with turmeric and ginger added to it, to which I add coconut oil, which
is high in medium chain triglycerides, which the brain likes very much. I
consume that as I sit down and journal.
I, every night, have a very hot soaking bath. No bubbles, no jets. That’s sacrilegious.
Sometimes, peculiar routines are the key to sanity and productivity.
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50 Jim Rohn Quotes
1. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn
2. “Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.” – Jim Rohn
3. “The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read.” – Jim Rohn
4. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
5. “Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.” – Jim Rohn
6. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
7. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
8. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall
into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not
much.” – Jim Rohn
9. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn
10. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
11. “The more you know the less you need to say.” – Jim Rohn
12. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
13. “Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.” – Jim Rohn
14. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
15. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
16. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
17. “Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.” – Jim Rohn
18. “Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.” – Jim Rohn
19. “The book you don’t read won’t help.” – Jim Rohn
20. “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn
21. “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn
22. “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn
23. “Learning
is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is
where the miracle process all begins.” – Jim Rohn
24. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on
you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.” – Jim Rohn
25. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” – Jim Rohn
26. “When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn
27. “For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.” – Jim Rohn
28. “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” – Jim Rohn
29. “Make measurable progress in reasonable time.” – Jim Rohn
30. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practised every day.” – Jim Rohn
31. “Whatever good things we build end up building us.” – Jim Rohn
32. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
33. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
34. “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” – Jim Rohn
35. “Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over
small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.” –
Jim Rohn
36. “Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.” – Jim Rohn
37. “Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the
natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” –
Jim Rohn
38. “It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.” – Jim Rohn
39. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
40. “Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to
the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t
laugh at you.” – Jim Rohn
41. “When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.” – Jim Rohn
42. “The only way it gets better for you is when you get better.
Better is not something you wish, it’s something you become.” – Jim Rohn
43. “Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw
from your experience and invest them in the future.” – Jim Rohn
44. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the
circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
That is something you have charge of.” – Jim Rohn
45. “Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.” – Jim Rohn
46. “Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that
it was more than you promised and easier than you said.” – Jim Rohn
47. “Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.” – Jim Rohn
48. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
49. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn
50. “Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills.” – Jim Rohn
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