Morning Routine

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once we learned it, our lives were transformed. And once you

learn it, watch what happens. Welcome to think it be the

podcast. I'm Kelly Hatfield.

Hey. And I'm John Michell. So the topic today is

your morning routine determines your success in life. Kelly,

would you buy that?

Amen to that I buy every I buy it? Two times

over.

Right, right. Well, you know, I tell you this

course it's it transformed both our lives, right. Learning the

12 minute they technique that that is our respective morning

routine. But, you know, one thing I see that really is

enlightening to me today is and this, my eyes first got open to

this about three or four years ago. And I told you this story,

but I go to I think it was Cleveland for a sort of a

mastermind thing over three days. And and Jay Abraham, who

is Tony Robbins mentor, was the featured speaker. And as part of

the thing I was on the hot seat, you know, I'm on the hot seat,

Jay Abraham was, you know, sort of the Master of Ceremonies and

so he's quizzing me. And there's, there's 100 people

there. You know, they're all entrepreneurs. They're all you

know, probably making 100 200,000 a year typically

something like that a lot, a lot of solopreneur partners. And so,

in the middle of my hotseat thing, I go, well, listen, let

me ask y'all a question. And I go, how many people have do

anything to impact their mindset each morning? Well, only one in

five hands goes up. So 20% and, and I'm like, wow, this is

interesting, because, you know, I just spent three days with the

people. And I thought they were all pretty damn sharp. And, and

I'm like, wow, what don't they get? Now I I understand, my life

got transformed and increased my income by 25 times from a

morning routine. So sure, I get it. But I see that. And this is

so friggin true. Life is a state of mind. And when you wake up

each morning, you're innately wired for survival, which causes

you to be fear based and reactive. Well, you have

absolutely got to fix it. And the only way to fix it is a

morning routine. That through that repetition, because again,

the subconscious mind is only influenced with repetition. It's

that continual repetition every morning that overrides that

survival orientation and wires you for success. But I am blown

away by how people don't get that their morning routine at

the end of the day, determines your success in life. I know you

buy this.

Oh, yeah. 100% agree. And I think John, now

more than ever. Yeah, I think the the need to influence our

mindset. You know, and framing and starting your day, you know,

setting the plate for your day, by having a technique. And a

morning routine that sets you up for success is critical with all

of the things that we have how fast things are moving right

now. Everything's coming out you it puts you into this proactive

mode you've got if you're not taking in the right things. So

you've got too much of the wrong influences coming into your

brain. It impacts things stress impacts things drastically. So

when you're just like, you know waking up, you know and go kind

of full, you know, bouncing through the day like a ping

pong, you know, a ball within a Ping Pong machine, you know,

that's what my mind how I see it right now on earth can you

expect to, you know, be efficient, you know, have the

right mindset to achieve the things that you want to achieve,

and be happy, you know, and so anyway, but we're 100% on the

same page. And I think more so now than ever, as wonderful as

technology is. It also, you know, has the reverse side to

it. And I think that now, so more than ever, it's critical

that you are, you've got a morning routine, and a mindset

practice that sets you up for success. You know,

I last week, I had a group of 10 entrepreneurs

over to my house and so I was explaining, think it be it to

him. And about midway through the process, I asked everybody,

I go, just close your eyes for a minute. Just close your eyes.

And think about your morning routine, whatever that is. And,

and, you know, so everybody closes her eyes, and they're

thinking about their, their morning routine. And I'm having

them think about is are you doing anything to impact your

your mindset? And you know, largely, the morning routine,

quote unquote, is I get up, I have breakfast, I brush my

teeth. I'm out the door. Yeah, that's the morning routine. It's

it has nothing to do with mindset. And, and then I go,

okay, okay, now that you got your mindset Are you got your

morning routine routine in your head, and you're thinking about

it. And this is also after I explained that we're innately

wired for survival, which is causing you to be innately wired

to be fear based and reactive. I go, imagine, if you had a

morning routine that took 12 minutes a day, where you fed

this a synced articulation of your life to yourself each day,

you know exactly the person you wanted to be exactly what you

want to accomplish, and precisely how you're going to

achieve your clearly defined goals. What if you had a morning

routine? Like that? And that was what you're feeding every day?

Do you think it would change your life? And, you know, is

interesting, cuz I don't know, I guess out of the 10 people, you

know, eight of them said, Boy, I want to learn this thing could

be it. And I if I had to guess that was the pivotal, pivotal

moment when they said, Oh, I'm now I'm connecting the dots that

my success in life ultimately comes down to impacting my

mindset. Because at the end of the day, life is a state of

mind.

Absolutely. No. And I mean, what a difference

maker, you know, we talk about this all the time, I've said it

a million times, probably in different settings, about, you

know, this morning routine, and being very clear. I mean, you're

starting your day, and we talk about the reticular activating

system being the filter for your life, basically, right? We're

informing it, you know, you are giving it its operation

instructions for the day about how you're going to navigate and

you know, how you're going to show up and it makes all the

difference in the world. Otherwise, you know, one thing

and I've talked about this, too, running on that proverbial

treadmill numb, kind of sleepwalking through life,

Groundhog's Day, rinse and repeat whatever it is, you're

not experiencing life, part of this morning routine, too. You

know, where you're setting yourself up for the day? We've

only got one go around at this right? Do you want to actually

experience life? Or do you want to be in the pinball machine?

Around? Or do you want to squeeze every bit you can out of

each moment at each interaction that you have with people show

up in a different way so that you're experiencing life

different and the people in your life are experiencing different

as a result of how you're showing up? And this this

morning routine helps you do that?

Why? Why don't you think people see this more

clearly?

You know, I think there are, I think just

probably a closed, you know, mindset. I think people there

are people who from a self awareness standpoint, right?

That that's a piece of the puzzle that's kind of missing,

do they have that closed mindset, meaning they don't have

a growth mindset? Right. So, you know, I think there are just

some people on that, you know, and I think to listen, it all

has to do with how you're wired. We're talking about your

subconscious, and right and rewiring that some people's self

subconscious can be, I think so strong with the stories they've

told themselves like, oh, I tried that before, it didn't

work for me. Okay, why? Did you try it consistently over a

period of time? Or did you try it once and the magic didn't

happen? You know, you know, right away. And so you just

stopped doing it? You know, I think that people get hardwired

into this. Oh, I've tried that closed mindset. Oh, I've tried

that before won't work for me, or oh, that sounds woowoo? Or,

yeah, so they just have that closed mindset. I think that's

one of the things what do you think?

Well, you know, I tell you, you know, and I know

you, because you had to put up with me saying it a couple of

years ago, you know, I'd go people, what the hell do you not

get your you're wired for survival. Which is means you're

not wired for success. You know, if you're fear based and

reactive, then that's the opposite of how you need to be

if you want to be successful. So, yeah, let's just get that

out there. So if it wouldn't it make sense to take the st

articulation of your life and feed it to yourself every more

every morning. And then of course, it would influence your

daily actions, and then those improved daily actions, then

we'd create the life you want. I'm like, people, this thing

doesn't get any simpler than that. Come on, let's get it.

And, you know, and then over the last couple of years, I think

I've been become more accepting of people. And I go, Well, you

know, everybody's, everybody's different. You know, everybody,

everybody is simply a function of, of their genetics, what has

come into their consciousness to this point, and whether they

have testosterone or estrogen flowing through their veins,

those are the three factors that, that create each of us.

And over the last year or so I'm going, you know, okay, I see why

people don't get it. They don't have the same genetics I have. I

don't have the they don't have the same life experiences I've

had at but I don't know, lately, I'm sort of going back a little

too, like I was I'm like, come on. Yes, I get all that. But

come on, you gotta have a basic level of intelligence. This is

so freakin simple, it hurts. And, and, and, but because I see

that what what we've really created is a life operating

system for smart people. And, and I hate to say this, but if

you're not smart, you probably don't get it. You know. That

terrible design.

I love it's fun just tells it like it is. It's

like listen, if you're stupid, stop listening right now.

You know, you cannot fix stupid, I've cried

and you cannot fix stupid.

And I think, you know, with this idea of this

morning routine, and, you know, some things may be coming up,

you know, as you're thinking about this, you'll start to feel

that resistance, like your brain is designed to protect you. It's

designed to keep you in that little comfort zone and

everything. And so, you know, the excuses start to fly well,

I'm my morning is already packed, I don't have time for

you know, 12 minutes a day, well, you have time to scroll up

a storm at different different points of your day. You know,

your, your, you know, when I ask people with their morning

routine is and they're sharing it, it sounds like chaos, you

know, they're running around there. And it's like, you know,

you can buy time back by, this is the best 12 minutes of your

day that you'll spend, and you will win back hours of time by,

you know, implementing this practice and doing it on a

consistent basis. And, anyway,

well, I you know, I see that, that a lot of people

there if they, if they do anything, they're going well,

you know, I do meditation or I do affirmations or I, I exercise

and, and those things are better than nothing. But and you know,

I again, I'm I meditate a little each morning, but you know, that

quiets the mind, the what we do, focuses the mind, that's what

our 12 minute a day technique does. And I think a lot of

people struggle with deep meditation And, but why people

don't see this? More. I'm not exactly sure who I guess I am

sure. Because we live in such a shallow thinking culture, we

have so many things coming at us that, that it hasn't resonated

with people that the morning routine is what determines your

success in life. And I think that if you had to condense all

that I've learned in my life, it's that that's your morning

routine determines your success in life. And the simpler you and

I can make it for people to see that. Probably the more

powerful, what we have will be, don't you think?

Oh, 100%? You know, when we're thinking too,

about why people don't? I don't know about you, John, but nobody

taught me how to think. Right, right. You know what I mean, I

didn't learn how my brain worked in school and what I needed to

do to, like, we didn't talk about morning routines, or

routine or mindset, for that matter, like, none of those

things, at least in my generation, I'm, you know, we're

an we're part of the youth specifically are part of the

educational system now at the University of Texas, you know,

and it's just being integrated in, you know, is it something

that you learned in high school? Or were a teacher says, Hey,

here's how your brain works, you know, and here's how to thrive

and here's how to think and get it. Nobody taught me this? Oh,

no, I didn't learn this till you taught it to me, you know, and I

was, you know, in just coming on 40. To turn 40 At that time, so

yeah, well, and, you know, that's a great point,

you know, as, as I, you know, what I teach at the University

of Texas, which is no, no different than what we teach

entrepreneurs, is purely leadership itself. And just to

your point, nobody teaches you leadership of self. And, you

know, to me, you know, leadership itself is starts by

having the attitude that I can accomplish anything I set my

mind to, and then it evolves to, you know, personal

responsibility and never being a victim, always owning your

results. And if you don't like the results, change the

behaviors that are creating the results. And but this whole idea

of leadership of, of self is, is something that really is rarely

rarely ever taught. But once you go down this rabbit hole, which

you know, now, as I mentioned, you know, all the athletes at

the University of Texas or are being required to take my

course, which is really pretty fun. And, but nobody is really

taught them formally, leadership itself. Now with the athletes.

The coaches have taught them leadership itself, but they

haven't called IT leadership of self. In fact, the coaches have

set the foundation, and all I do is take it that next level up

and show it, show them how it applies to be successful in the

real world. You know, they're teaching them how to be

successful at their sport. And so it's a bit it's an easy

transition to now take it maybe at a little more scientific

level and a lot more a little more formalized and show them

how to apply it in the real world. But again, leadership

itself ultimately comes down to your morning routine. percent.

Yeah. And so that's the power of it. So I hope we got through to

everybody today and let him

hear people people

know, probably Apple podcast is gonna go you

know, those two, you don't want to listen to that, that think

it'd be at the podcast. Those two are just abusing their

audience. We've got to get them off the air. Okay, until next

time, we'll see you.

Thanks for listening today. If you've had

your own aha moment from today's episode, send me or John an

email. We'd love to share your epiphany with our audience. So

email us at Kelly@thinkitbeit.com or

John@thinkitbeit.com. In the meantime, live the exceptional