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hello Mayan Valley community my name is
Jim quick 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 jumpstart
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 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 challenges 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 number one 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 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 and a lot of
people dehydrated you 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've brushed my teeth like Jim why are
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 and what do they do
with their mental
tea and I would say the number one thing
is getting 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 in the
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 t it has gota kola
ginkgo biloba and as lion's mane it has
some essential fatty acids that are
they're 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 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 the things
that I'm most grateful for in my life
and if you want to feel instinct
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 much their longevity coming
from half of it had to do with their
gratitude emotional faith the other half
had to do with their a lifelong learner
so those two things combined it very
very powerful after that I'm drinking my
tea I'm writing in my journal because a
lot of geniuses write in journals write
Minar da Vinci Einstein Marie Curie all
these journals and they're going to do
these studies say our genius is writing
in journals because they're geniuses or
is it the opposite is 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
the next thing I do is I do some just
morning exercises it's not my exercises
for the day but three or four minutes of
high intensity workout to kind of get
your heart beat will going because
here's the thing whatever is good for
your heart
usually good for your head because what
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 or like gym
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 it I
just prove all on a blender so certain
foods like like blueberries right I call
them brain berries there's things like
avocado very good for the brain also as
well obviously hydration we 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 him a book a week
because the average person recently
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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