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Powerful Morning Ritual To Start Your Day

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Here is a great way to set yourself up for success on a daily basis.

Spend the first hour of each day working on your own personal development. Discipline yourself to get up earlier and work on yourself each morning – This powerful practice will literally transform your life!

 

The Hour of Power

Step 1 – 5 minutes is dedicated to gratitude

Practice being grateful for all the people in your life and everything you have. When you start from a place of gratitude each morning, it’s much more powerful to begin each day from a place of abundance, realizing just how many things are going right in your life, rather than coming from a place of lack.

Step 2 – 5 minutes for writing your goals

Take a fresh sheet of paper and write out all your goals on a daily basis – health goals, financial goals, personal development goals, relationship goals, career goals, etc. When you write your goals make sure to write them in the first person and as if they are already accomplished.

For example, if you have a goal to earn one million dollars in your business, you would write – “I earn $1,000,000 in my business.”

Step 3 – 10 minutes of meditation or visualization (prayer fits in here too)

Visualize your goals as if you had already achieved them.

Every morning I sit down on the floor, close my eyes and focus on my breathing.

After each exhale I retain the breath because this is when your body is most quiet – after an exhale, before the next inhale – and silently say to myself, “Every day in every way I am getting stronger and stronger. Every day in every way I am getting better and better.”

I say it several times while holding the breath on the exhale, each time more intently.

When I open my eyes, I am clear, focused, charged up, and ready to start my day!

Here’s a short video I made describing the process…

Give it a try and let me know how it works for you!

Step 4 – 20 minutes of exercise – begin with mobility and deep breathing with bodyweight exercises.

Do you jump out of bed every morning brimming with energy, ready to take on the day?  Yeh, me neither. 🙂

What I have found is that doing 3 simple exercises as soon as I get out of bed in the morning helps to rev up my energy levels and kick start my day.

Tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, I want you to perform the following 3 exercises.  You will be amazed at the powerful effect they have on stimulating your metabolism and getting you ready to kick butt for the day!!

What are the 3 exercises?

  • Breathing Push-ups x 10
  • Breathing Squats x 10
  • Breathing Leg Raises x 10

For each exercise, exhale fully and deeply (diaphragmaticly) while lowering down, and inhale fully and deeply by expanding the belly when raising the body.  Make sure to fully actualize the breath in every movement.

That’s all.  Just one set of 10 for each of those 3 exercises to kick start your day.

Step 5 – 20 minutes dedicated to reading

Great warriors train all the time. Reading is a form of training that must be practiced by the warrior on a daily basis. Feeding and training the mind is just as important as feeding and training the body. Remember – knowledge is power!

Fill your mind with creative, positive and motivational ideas, concepts, and philosiphies – reading is the key to success. Learn something new every day!

Here are 10 books that are a must in every warrior’s library. Expand your mind and pick up these books!

(PS – don’t have a full hour in the morning? change the amount of time spent in each area to fit your schedule)

You will find this powerful practice a great way to start your day and propel you towards success in every area of your life. Make sure that you implement it tomorrow morning!

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Ask Yourself Better Questions

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Do you ever talk to yourself?  Of course you do.  I don’t mean the talking out loud like the crazy lady down the street talking to yourself, I mean the normal everyday conversation that goes on inside your head.

Ever notice that most of your thinking is done in the form of asking yourself a question?  It’s true.  Take a moment and listen to your self-talk.  It usually takes the form of asking and answering questions.  We’ll say something to ourselves like, “why can’t I ever get that movement right?”  And since your brain doesn’t want you to lie to yourself it will come up with what seems to be an appropriate answer to the question – “because you’re a screw up.”

But what did we just do?  We’ve created a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Remember, you are what you think.  If you think you’re going to always mess up that movement because you’re a screw up, guess what?  You will.

How about the person who tries to go on a diet but no matter what he does he’s never able to lose weight.  What question and answer process is going on in his head?  Maybe something like – “why the heck can’t I ever lose weight?”  And, his brain comes back with – “because you eat too much, fatty!”  So what happens?  He continues to eat too much and fulfills what he’s told himself over and over again.

Questions

We need to start asking ourselves better questions.  The answers are out there.  We can lose weight.  We can exercise consistently.  We can train our martial art every day.  We can be masterful.  We can tap into our own innate greatness.  We can meet the woman/man of our dreams.  It’s not impossible.  It’s not even all that difficult.  We just have to ask ourselves better questions so that our brain gives us more helpful, actionable answers.  We have to understand how to use the human mind to get what we want, not what we don’t want.

Here’s the problem…

How often during the day do you focus and think about the things you don’t want?  You don’t want to be miserable.  You don’t want to be broke.  You don’t want to be depressed.  You don’t want to be fat.  You don’t want to be unmotivated.  You don’t want to be uncreative.  You don’t want… (Fill in the blank.)  But if all we do all day is think about the things, circumstances, ideas, that we DON’T want, and we know that what we focus on grows, for we are what we think, than what is the one thing we can do to change our outcomes?  (c’mon people, don’t make me do all the heavy lifting on this one, say it with me…)

Change our thinking by changing the questions we ask ourselves.  Got it?  Do it.  Ask yourself better, more productive questions so that you get better, more useful answers.  Change your life by changing your process of thinking.