KWIK - 10 Morning Habits Geniuses Use To Jump Start Their Brain | Jim Kwik

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

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Hello, Mindvalley Community.

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

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

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

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levels of productivity?"

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

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

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dreams.

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

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

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

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mind doesn't stop.

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Your unconscious mind is still working on those problems.

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And you come up with incredible insights and solution.

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

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process on how to do that.

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

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

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Two reasons.

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Number one, clean environment is important for you.

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

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mind.

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

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is how you do everything.

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So, you start with excellence.

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Take two minutes, make your bed.

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

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full circle back to success.

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

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Your brain is mostly water, 80% water.

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

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hydrated.

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

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thing in the morning.

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Then what do I do?

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I brush my teeth.

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

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How is that good for your brain?"

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

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

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body moves, your brain grooves.

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

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inside your brain.

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

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

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

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What do they do with their mental fatigue?

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

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

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

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We talk about that in our programs also as well.

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

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I make myself some tea.

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I make what I call a brain tea.

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

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

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my focus and my memory.

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

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I'm actually journaling.

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

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

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

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grateful for.

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

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really thrives on gratitude.

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

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be given the things that you really want.

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

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

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

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

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you have that money can't buy.

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Gratitude is also good for your brain.

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

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80, 90, and above.

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

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

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

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

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

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in journals, right?

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Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, Marie Curie.

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

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

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

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field.

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

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just morning exercises.

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

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

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for your heart is usually good for your head.

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

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flow to my brain and more oxygen.

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And that's very, very important.

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So, what do I do next?

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I make my brain power smoothie.

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

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

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memorize these foods.

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

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I call them brain berries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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about four to six books a month.

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

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

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