7 Morning Routines That Will BOOST Your Confidence | Ultimate Success Training

Evan Carmichael lays out seven morning habits to build confidence: prep the night before, share a moment with family, play an energizing playlist, drink lemon water, do a 15-20 minute workout, recall your deeper purpose, and complete a small confidence-boosting task like reading supportive comments.
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I want to talk to you about your morning routine. Does it support you? Does it build you up? Does it help you go out and believe in yourself? I want to go make the world a better place. Or are you like most people and you wake up in the morning and you're frantic and rushing and trying to cram everything else in there and you're, you're frantically trying to get to work, get your school, your kids to school, rush off to whatever meeting. Your morning sets the tone for your entire day, and you want to have a routine that builds you up, that gives you confidence, and that sets you on the path to go out and have an amazing day. So today I'm going to share with you 7 morning routines for business and personal success. Number 1 is start preparing the night before. Most people have great morning routines. They start the night before when you actually have a little bit more time. So instead of trying to cram everything into that hectic, ridiculously crazy morning, help make it easier for yourself by planning a little bit more the night before. So if one of your goals is to exercise and to run more, the night before, set out your shoes, set out your exercise gear, set out your clothes so that all you have to do is wake up and put them on. If one of your goals is to eat healthier and you're tired of going out and eating McDonald's for lunch or whatever it is, then the night before, plan your lunch. Make a sandwich, make a salad. Create something healthy, have some snacks you can just go to the fridge, pull out your bag, and you're off to work. Today's my video day. When I know it's my video day the night before, I set up my camera, I set up my gear, set up my microphone. It's all ready for me to go, so all I have to do is walk in and press record and I'm ready to go. Make it easy for yourself. Don't cram more into your morning. Prepare the night before. Number 2 is have a family moment. If you have a family, if you have a husband or wife and some kids, You know how ridiculously crazy it is in the morning to get everybody off to where they're supposed to be. In the midst of all that chaos, try to find some time to have a quick family moment. Something quick, something fun, something easy, something just to let people feel loved and to let you feel loved. Because again, if you're just rushing off and you're, you're short with the other person and you're getting on each other's nerves, that's not the way to start a day. So for me, I usually actually wake up after my wife has has already left the house. She works early and she's out of the house early, and I wake up after she's already gone. But the first thing that I do when I wake up is I grab my phone and I load up my Facebook Messenger app that I know she has open, and I send her a little character, a little cartoon. Maybe it's a dog blowing a heart, maybe it's a penguin in a little costume, something cute just to let her know that I'm thinking of her and that I love her. If I wake up and she's still here, then I'll try to do something to help her with her morning routine. So there's a vitamin drink that she likes to drink drink in the morning, I might help her make that. If she hasn't made her, her breakfast and hasn't had time to eat it, I'll help make that for her. Whatever I can do to help make her morning go a little bit more smoothly, show her a little bit of love, go to the door, give her a hug if she's taking off, because it makes her feel great, it gives her a better start to the day, and it also makes me feel great. It doesn't have to be complicated, just something simple, something fun, something cute, something that, that is loving in the morning for the special person in your life to help both of you start off on the right foot. Number 3: Turn on music. Music is like a drug, right? When the right song comes on, you're bouncing, you're moving, you're dancing, you know, you're, you're bobbing your head. It gives you energy, right? So you want to start the day off with that. You don't want to wait till after lunch before you get energy. If you're off to do something important, right? We're off trying to change the world, make the world a better place for ourselves, our family, our kids. Our community, everybody, make it a better place to live, right? That's what we're all trying to do. You need energy to do that, and music starts you off on the right tone. So make a playlist. I have a playlist called the Believe Playlist, no surprise, and it's all songs that I love hearing that when it comes on, it makes me want to dance, it makes me want to groove, it makes me want to get up, get out of my chair, and, and move around. And you need that in the morning because you can't just wake up and go through your day like this until eventually you wake up after lunch. So find your favorite songs, make a list of 20 different songs that you can put on random, and after you wake up, you put it on and you start moving. Ba dum bum. So turn on music. Number 4: Have lemon water. You are dehydrated when you wake up, okay? You haven't had water for whatever number of hours you were sleeping, and your body sweats while you sleep, so you lose water. You are dehydrated and you need water to give you energy. If you wake up and you're sluggish, the number one reason is going to be not enough sleep, but the number two reason is you don't have enough water in you. So go get some water. I like to fill it with lemon because it has a whole bunch of properties in there that, that help you and give you energy. When I'm doing these videos, I have a glass of lemon water with me and it gives you energy. So you can even set this up the night before if you want. Glass of water, put some lemon juice in it, and start your day every day with that routine. Number 5 is workout. If you are trying to have a healthy lifestyle, if you want to build a workout into your daily routine, the easiest way to do it is in the morning. Because if you try to schedule stuff in the afternoon, in the evening, often you'll find your day explodes on you. Emergencies come up, you don't have time to go, or you're so exhausted from your day that you say, ah, I'm not going to do it today, I'll do it some other time. And that some other time never happens. So if you want something to happen on a daily basis, or on a regular basis, you plan for it in the morning. So we've already set up our shoes and our clothes and our gear the night before, ready to go. And working out, even if it's for 15 minutes, 20 minutes in the morning, something quick, doesn't have to be a 2-hour marathon workout, it gets your body moving. Just like music gets you moving a little bit, so does working out. And if you're, you're pumping weights, or if you are doing some cardio, whatever it is, Moving your body, getting energy, getting activity, getting motion gives you momentum to go out and do something great. I get a lot of great ideas when I'm working out. I get a lot of great ideas in the shower after I'm working out. And after I've finished a workout, I feel refreshed, energized, ready to go out and tackle my day, and way more energy than I get if I don't. If I miss a workout because I've got a really early morning conference call or I'm off speaking at some event, then I feel sluggish. It's harder to get started. So get some workout time scheduled in there, again, like 15 minutes in the morning just to get your body moving. Number 6 is remember your why. Remember why you're starting this. Remember why you're doing your business. What are you doing this for? Who is it for, right? Is it for yourself? For your family, for your kids, for your community? Why are you doing this? Why is this so important? You need to have a really important, really powerful why. Because what often happens is, you know, you may be working and something happens. You remember your wife, you remember your kids, you remember this dream goal that you have that you want to go out and accomplish. And maybe that happens at like 3 in the afternoon, and then you're like, oh yeah, now I'm all motivated, I'm ready to go, I'm going to go kill it, here we go, rah rah, yes! And then you go on the rest of the day is awesome, and then you go to bed and you wake up the next day and it's gone. Like, where was that momentum? What happened? It's all— it's totally gone. So you want to schedule that in and you want to start the day with it to give you energy for the entire day. So remember why you're doing this. If you're just doing it for money, it's not going to work out. It's not going to— it's not going to be this big thing. You have to stand for something way more important. And if you look at famous entrepreneurs and why they got started, it wasn't just trying to make a lot of money. It was trying to make something better, right? So what is your big why? And remind yourself of that every day. When you look at that, it should give you excitement, it should give you motivation, it should give you energy. I want to help a billion entrepreneurs through my website. A billion entrepreneurs is going to take a long time, but it's something that motivates me. I love helping entrepreneurs. I believe in entrepreneurs. It fuels me. When I see that, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to take action. I'm ready to start making these videos. I'm ready to answer emails. I'm ready to launch big scary projects. And you want that every morning. You want to schedule that into your environment so that you set yourself up for success that day. And number 7 is do a task that gives you energy. So after I've looked at my big why, the next thing I do, and I call these my little whys, is I look at my YouTube comments. Every morning I eat my lentils and I look at my YouTube comments because you guys give me energy. And you want to do a task that gives you energy, that makes you remember why you're doing this. Because sometimes that big why can seem too big and too scary, and so the little why, those little tasks that you do that give you energy, help keep you grounded, help show the momentum. When you guys leave comments on my videos, it makes me feel like I'm doing something important, right? It makes me— it gives me a great reminder of what I'm doing and gives me energy and confidence and courage to keep going and to try new things. So you guys are my little why. You guys are the task that gives me energy every morning, and so I love watching what you're posting. So post comments below, guys, because they're really important. But before I did that, before I had as many YouTube comments— I'm fortunate now that there's comments that come on every video— before that happened, I would make a PowerPoint file and I would watch it every day, and inside the file would be comments that customers had left, or comments of people if I went and did a presentation at a YMCA at a CDA and there were 5 people there in the room and, you know, they all left great comments, I would take that comment and put it up on my screen because maybe I'm only doing one presentation a month because I'm just getting started, but seeing those things, seeing those comments gives me the courage and the motivation to keep going. So if you don't have it daily, have something that you do that reminds you of the importance importance of the work that you're doing and get encouragement and feedback and momentum to help you grow your business. So in summary, 7 morning routines for business and personal success. Number 1: Start preparing the night before. Number 2: Have a family moment. Number 3: Turn on music. Number 4: Lemon water. Number 5: Workout. Number 6: Remember your why. And number 7: Do a task that gives you energy. And believe. If you guys like this video, you want to see more just like it, you can subscribe to the channel. And thank you so much for watching. I'll see you soon. And Nina wrote back. See, that's what happens when you take a little bit of time to make someone feel special in the morning. If you want more believe energy running through your veins, sign up for the newsletter below. It's free. You're going to love it. Hi, I'm Jason J. Rosz Fonsica of RoszOnline.com, and I want to say Evan Carmichael's newsletter is consistent fun, inspiring, and it's the only newsletter I prioritize and look forward to, period.
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