10 Jump-Start Morning Habits Used By Geniuses

Hello friends 

This is by Jim Kwik with Kwik Learning, and
I'm here as always to help you to learn quickly.

One of the questions in the community that
we get is, "Jim, what do you do every single

morning to jump-start your brain for greater
success, greater levels of focus, greater

levels of productivity?"

So, I'm going to walk you through my morning
routine.

The first thing I do when I wake up in the
morning is I have a process to remember my

dreams.

Now, you're like, "Jim, why do you want to
remember your dreams?"

The reason why is, often, as you spend your
day learning and working to solve problems,

solve problems in your work, in your life,
and everything else, when you sleep, your

mind doesn't stop.

Your unconscious mind is still working on
those problems.

And you come up with incredible insights and
solution.

The challenge is in the morning most people
don't remember their dreams, so we teach a

process on how to do that.

The second thing I do after I wake up is I
get out of bed and I make my bed.

You're like, "Jim, why is that good for your
brain?"

Two reasons.

Number one, clean environment is important
for you.

When you clean off your desktop, you clean
up your office, your bedroom, you have a clearer

mind.

The second reason why is, I want to start
my day with success, because how you do anything

is how you do everything.

So, you start with excellence.

Take two minutes, make your bed.

And it's really great, because when you come
home at the end of the day, you come back

full circle back to success.

The third thing I do is I drink a lot of water.

Your brain is mostly water, 80% water.

A lot of people dehydrated use so much water,
and it's so important for your brain to be

hydrated.

The challenge is you lose a lot of water when
you're sleeping, so I super hydrate first

thing in the morning.

Then what do I do?

I brush my teeth.

You're like, "Jim, why do you brush your teeth?

How is that good for your brain?"

What you do is you brush your teeth with your
opposite hand.

It's been shown that by using your opposite
hand to eat or to brush your teeth, as your

body moves, your brain grooves.

As you brush your teeth with your opposite
hand, it actually creates more neural connections

inside your brain.

So, the next thing I do is I do a deep breathing
exercise.

The other thing besides hydration that's good
for your brain is oxygen.

A lot of people get tired, and they have brain
fog.

What do they do with their mental fatigue?

And I would say the number one thing is get
oxygen in your body.

And here's the thing, your brain is only 2%
of your body weight on average, but it consumes

20% of the nutrients and oxygen, so it's so
important to do deep breathing exercises.

We talk about that in our programs also as
well.

What's the next thing I do in my morning routine?

I make myself some tea.

I make what I call a brain tea.

It has gotu kola, ginkgo biloba and has lion's
mane.

It has some essential fatty acids that are
there, really good ingredients that boost

my focus and my memory.

Now, as I'm drinking the tea, what am I doing?

I'm actually journaling.

Because if you want to boost your brain power,
it's important to take notes.

And I do a whole process where I teach you
the best ways of taking notes and making notes

to be able to plan out your day and also to
be able to write the things that you're most

grateful for.

So, I go through this gratitude process in
my journal, because I feel like your brain

really thrives on gratitude.

Because if you can't appreciate the things
that you already have, you're not going to

be given the things that you really want.

So, why do I focus on gratitude first thing
in the morning?

Well, I have my vision board and then my goals,
everything that I want, but I also have a

gratitude board of things that I'm most grateful
for in my life.

And if you want to feel instant gratitude,
just count all the things in your life that

you have that money can't buy.

Gratitude is also good for your brain.

There was a cover story on the cover of "Time"
magazine on the super nuns who are living

80, 90, and above.

And I want to find how...where is their longevity
coming from?

Half of it had to do with their gratitude,
emotional faith.

The other half had to do with their life-long
learners.

So, those two things combined are very, very
powerful.

After that, I'm drinking my tea, I'm writing
in my journal, because a lot of geniuses write

in journals, right?

Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, Marie Curie.

All these journals, and they want to do these
studies.

They are geniuses writing journals because
they're geniuses, or is it the opposite?

It's because they're writing in journals that
they become these incredible geniuses of their

field.

When I'm done drinking my brain tea and writing
my journal, the next thing I do is I do some

just morning exercises.

This is not my exercises for the day, but
three or four minutes of high-intensity workout

to kind of get your heart beating and going,
because here's the thing, whatever is good

for your heart is usually good for your head.

Because when I'm getting my heartbeat going,
what's happening is I'm getting more blood

flow to my brain and more oxygen.

And that's very, very important.

So, what do I do next?

I make my brain power smoothie.

And you're like, "Jim, what's a brain power
smoothie?"

There are certain foods that are really great
for your brain, and I teach people how to

memorize these foods.

What we do is I just put them all in a blender,
so certain foods like blueberries.

I call them brain berries.

They're things like avocado, very good for
the brain also as well.

Obviously, hydration, and we will talk about
all those ingredients in another video.

So, as I'm drinking my brain power smoothie,
what am I doing?

I'm reading, 20, 30 minutes a day of dedicated
reading, because the leaders are readers.

You're like, "Jim, I can't read a book a week."

Because the average person reads only about
one or two books a year, but the CEO reads

about four to six books a month.

So, you want to get to about a book a week.

So, remember, first, you make your habits,
and then your habits make you.

Design the first hour a day to be brain-friendly,
and you'll win the rest of the day.