5 Morning Habits of Highly Successful People
Danielle Cobo: [00:00:00] How often do you wake up feeling groggy? Maybe throughout the day you're grabbing for that second or third cup of coffee, maybe you're feeling exhausted throughout the day. It's hard to be successful when you're always running around like a chicken with your head cut off, you know, that you'd be more productive and less stressed.
If you could just get your morning routine. Under control. Well, today's episode, we're gonna be talking about the five morning habits of highly successful people. In 2019, my husband served a year on deployment. Our twins at the time were a year and a half, and I led a team for a fortune 500 company with 60% overnight travel.
Creating a morning routine was the first step for me to create balance in my life and allowed me to be present at work [00:01:00] and with my kids. And some of the tools that I learned during that year, I'm gonna be sharing with you today. The first hour of the day sets the tone of the entire day. It sets the intention of your day, an optimal morning routine.
Can create a positive trajectory for a successful, effective, productive, and efficient day. The five morning routine habits of highly successful people are key to getting your day started on the right foot, implement these simple tips in your morning routine and watch how your productivity skyrockets.
The five morning routine habits of highly successful people. And if you're driving during this episode, I invite you when you get to your destination, take some notes, write them down. If, if not only pick all five, at least [00:02:00] pick a couple of these that you get to change. So the first morning habit of a highly successful person is to avoid the snooze button.
How many of you out there may hit that snooze button 1, 2, 3 times constantly reaching over going, ah, just 10 more minutes. Just 10 more minutes. Well, here's the challenge with that snooze button: research shows that when you sleep and nap after your alarm, it increases tiredness, making you feel drowsy. Going back to sleep for even just 10 minutes can confuse your body.
Instead of hitting snooze, I invite you to sit up in your bed for 10 minutes and give your body time to wake up. If you have trouble, keep your eyes. Scan your room for focus and focus on a particular object. Maybe you focus from right to left or left to right. [00:03:00] But taking the time of that 10 minutes instead of hitting snooze.
Is going to help you reduce that foggy and grogginess. What happens is when you go, when you put yourself back to sleep and you hit your snooze button, you're not giving yourself enough, your body enough time to go through REM sleep, which is rapid eye movement. So what happens is you're telling your.
It's time to go to sleep, it's dark. And then what happens is you're not actually putting yourself into that REM sleep, which is the deepest sleep that is at quality sleep. And instead, you're just giving yourself 10 minutes just getting this surface level sleep, and then you're waking back up and possibly doing it again.
That is what's creating that fogginess and that grogginess, and that can last up to two to four hours throughout your day. So I invite you next time [00:04:00] to not hit that snooze button. It takes about 45 days to create a habit. But my promise to you is this. When you choose to not hit this news button and you choose to give yourself that time to just sit up, you will notice more energy in the morning.
And this is coming from somebody from experience where my nickname growing up was Sleeping Beauty. I am probably the worst person to wake up in the morning. I grab me a cup of Joe coffee girl. Before you talk to me. I can also share through learning this technique. I now wake up at six every single morning before my family wakes up at 6:00 AM.
My alarm goes off. I am by my computer by 6:05 with a cup of coffee and writing my book. This does work. I invite you to do it this second step to a successful morning [00:05:00] routine. Make Your Bed US retired Navy Admiral William MCRA. He wrote a book called Make Your Bed. His book talks about the simple tasks and starts your morning with this sense of accomplishment, reduces stress, develops good habits and creates a retreat within your home.
When you make your bed. You immediately have that first sense of accomplishment. You, you have a task, you have a sense of accomplishment, you accomplish it right away. Then what happens is even if you have a horrible day, you at least come home to your retreat, a nicely made bed. I invite you to go ahead and Google when you get to your destination, if you're driving.
Make your bed. He's got a 30 minute speech, but you can even narrow it down to the, make your bed portion of his speech. It's about three minutes. And my promise [00:06:00] to you is, this does work. In fact, every time I make my bed, I think of us retired Navy Emerald, William. Speaking of my head, make your bed, make your bed.
It's that first sense of accomplishment. If you wanna take a step further and you're a parent out there, one of the things that I teach my kids is I tell them if let's make the bed like the Navy seals do. And so we show them the video of why they make their bed. And then I show them how the Navy seals make their bed.
And then together we do it together. So by five years old, they are making their bed. which for those parents of you out there, you probably know that that's always a struggle. The third tip to creating a highly successful morning routine, drink water, drinking water ensures optimal digestion and increases metabolism.
Water supports your body to [00:07:00] flush out toxins. First thing in the morning. Our brain is made up of 75% water. So when our brain is not adequately hydrated, our brain operates on less fuel optimal daily water intake is about half our body weight in ounces. So if you weigh 200 pounds drinking a hundred ounces of water per day is what you start with.
Have you ever wondered? Why does Jennifer Anderson have such beautiful skin? It almost seems like she's never ages. Well, I was watching her on Oprah one day and she wakes up and first thing in the morning, she drinks a gallon of water. That's why her skin looks so great. Her body is hydrated. When you start to drink water and drink the amount of water that your body needs, which is half of your body weight ounces, you will notice an improvement in your [00:08:00] S skin quality.
Your body will be more hydrated. You'll have less acne breakouts. You'll most likely lose weight. Your body will be at optimal function. You'll probably have some more energy flushing out those toxins. So the third step is to drink plenty of water.
The fourth is daily affirmations and gratitude. We all know that our thoughts have a powerful effect on us, but sometimes it's hard to keep our thoughts.
Positive negativity can be incredibly draining and it's tough to break free from negative thought patterns. Daily affirmations can help change your mindset and empower you to achieve your dreams. It's a form of cognitive therapy and cognitive psychology therapy is reframing negative thoughts into positive thought thoughts.
So start your [00:09:00] morning with positive self-talk that will motivate you to increase concentration throughout the day. Change negative thought patterns and boost. Self confidence. Have you ever been in that situation where maybe you've got a project that needs to be done? For example, this past weekend, we needed to clean out the garage.
We've been dreading it for a very long time. It needed to be cleaned out. Our kids are out, going through phases of their toys. And quite frankly, our garage has turned into a mess. So. My husband and I approached it in two different ways. One was, oh, I don't wanna clean the garage. I don't wanna do this.
It's all this like complaining and negatively. And then on the flip side, it's okay, we're gonna get it done. We're gonna get this accomplished today. Yeah, it's gonna suck, but we're gonna do it. And it's gonna be a [00:10:00] sense of accomplishment. And what will the end result be focusing on? We have a choice in life.
We can either choose to wake up and think of all the things that are going wrong in our day, or we can choose to wake up and have gratitude for the things that are going well in our life. We can think about it. The goals that we wanna accomplish and what it's going to look like and envision ourselves in that once we've achieved those goals, we have a choice every single morning to choose who we want to be, what we want to be and how we want to interact with people on a day to day basis, just within the first 10 minutes of us waking ourselves.
Daily affirmations may look like telling yourself five positive affirmations and five things that you're grateful for in your life. Write your affirmations on a piece of paper and [00:11:00] hang them in an area you see every day or write them on a bathroom mirror with the dry erase marker that you can see.
An app that I love. And it's called. I am. You can find it on your favorite app store, but I am, you can set daily reminders where it automatically sends you notification and it's a daily affirmation. You could have it sent to you throughout the time. And you can focus on specific areas where you would like affirmation, whether it's positive thinking or body confidence.
There's also its sister app called motivation, which is an inspirational message. Specific to about 40 different topics of motivational tips for you as well. One of the things that I do in the evening with my kids is I ask them what are five things that you're grateful for? And it's always fun hearing the different things that they're grateful for.
Cause sometimes it ranges from family and sometimes, you know, they're, they're grateful [00:12:00] for, oh mommy, I've got food on the table and I've got a bed to lay on. And other times it's, I'm really grateful for the Spider-Man toy that I got yesterday. One of the things that I share with them and the things that I'm grateful for.
It's pretty simple in life. I tell them each night I'm grateful for the eyes so that I can see them, my nose so that I can smell them, my ears so that I can hear them, my lips, so that I can kiss them, my arms so that I can hold them. It's the simplest things that we are grateful for. Sometimes we get so caught, we get so caught up into what we don't have versus being grateful for what we have.
And it's really the little things in life. The fourth step to a highly effective morning routine for highly successful people is daily affirmations and gratitude. The fifth [00:13:00] is to move your body. Even 15 minutes of daily exercise will reduce stress and improve sleep, increase energy and clarity throughout the day.
Get your body moving. Get those endorphins moving. It doesn't have to be this full one hour workout at the gym while that is. It does have the benefits of having toned arms and legs and stomach, but even just 15 minutes of daily exercise will reduce stress and improve sleep. That could be anything from jumping on a Peloton bike for 15 minutes.
Rowing machine is a great exercise. Cardio builds, tone and muscle and definition going outside. Maybe that might look like going outside and going for a walk while listening to your favorite podcast. Maybe it's listening to music or inspirational music or videos, even just 15 [00:14:00] minutes a day. If you've got kids, there's tons of workout videos that you can do together as a family on YouTube.
The five steps again, avoid the snooze button. Snoozing is not serving you in life using that time that you would snooze to go ahead and. Use that time to wake up, make your bed the first accomplishment of your day. Drink plenty of water, half your body, weight and ounces. Remember your daily affirmations and gratitude and move your body.
Get it moving. It can be hard when you don't know how to create something good. Most people want to create good habits, but often we don't know where to start. It takes again between an average of 45 to 60 days to create a habit. So [00:15:00] if we want to incorporate exercise into our morning routine, then set specific dates each week to exercise and block out time on your schedule.
Then we get to reward ourselves when we achieve certain milestones, maybe when we get to a certain fitness level that we wanna get to, we go and buy that new bathing suit. We've always wanted to. Doing something consistently day in and day out. It can be hard. Sometimes we may slip up from time to time and it's essential during these times to give ourselves grace, instead of saying phrases such as I need to, I should have, I have to shift our mind from an obligation to an opportunity and incorporate phrases such.
I get to, and I choose to then remind ourselves who we get to be when [00:16:00] we get back on track with our morning routine. When I wake up unmotivated to workout, I remind myself that I have more energy when I work out. And when I have more energy, I'm more effective throughout my day. That in itself gives me a little motivation to get out of.
We can also start our morning with a podcast or a Ted talk or a motivational video to get a quick boost of motivation and inspiration.
When you find yourself in those moments. Of feeling exhausted and rushed. It might be time to take a pause. It's time to reevaluate what our morning routine looks like. And what are one, or if not all five of these areas are you going to implement habits you are going to implement in your life to help set your day up for success?
The intention [00:17:00] of your day. Thanks for tuning in.