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YouTube Video title

10 Morning Habits Geniuses Use To Jump Start The Brain | Jim Kwik

Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sGyNx44Xw4

Length of the Video

5:27

Quote
«Let them sleep while you grind. Let them party while you work. The difference will show.»

Jim Kwik
First things first
1 Remember your dream(s)
2 Make your bed
3 Drink a lot of water
4 Brush your teeth with your opposite hand
5 Do deep breathing exercise
6 Make yourself a tea
7 Write in your journal
8 Morning exercises
9 Make a smoothie
10 Reading
Transcription

Hello MindValley community. My name is Jim Kwik with ‘Quick 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 gonna 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.

„You come up with incredible insights and solution.“

When you sleep your mind doesn't stop. Your unconscious mind 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 dream. 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.

„A clean environment is important for you.“

Number 1: The Clean environment is important for you. Like you know when you clean off your desktop, you clean up your office, your bedroom, you have a clear mind.

The 2nd 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. And 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.

Now, 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, your brain grooves.“

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. And what do they do with their mental fatigue? And I would say the number one thing is get oxygen in your body.

„Your brain is 2% of you body weight but it consumes 20% of the nutrients and oxygen.“

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 talked about that in other 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 got Kola, Gingko Biloba and it has Lions 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 brainpower 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.

„Your brain thrives on gratitude.“

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 gonna 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, the things that I'm most grateful for in my life.

„Count all the things in your life that you have that money cannot buy.“

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 these super nuns who are living 80, 90 and above.

And I want to find how what's their longevity coming from? Half of it had to do with their gratitude, emotional faith.

The other half had to do with they were lifelong learners. So, those two things combined are very, very powerful.

„A lot of geniuses write in journals.“

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're gonna do these studies say, our genius is writing journals because they're geniuses.

Or is it the opposite? Is it 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.

These are not my exercises for the day but three or four minutes of high-intensity workout. To kind of get your heartbeat will going.

„Whatever is good for your heart usually is good for your head.“

Because here's the thing: Whatever is good for your heart usually is 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. 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.

And what we do is we just put them all on a blender. So certain foods like blueberries, right, I call them brain berries. There are things like avocado; very good for the brain
also as well obviously hydration. We're going to talk about all those ingredients in another video.

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

Right. 20 – 30 minutes a day of dedicated reading.

Because leaders are readers. Here 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.

Right, 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.

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