Robin Sharma explains how your morning routine shapes your energy, mindset, and productivity for the day. He contrasts habits like hitting snooze and watching news, which spike stress, with deliberate practices that build creativity and optimism. A personal health crisis convinced him the difference matters.
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Most people really do wake up and they feel exhausted and then they turn on the news. What does the news do? It actually pours cortisol, the fear chemical, through your brain. They lose their energy, they lose their creativity. They start to perceive reality as a dangerous place versus a generous, optimistic place to be. And just because of the way they front end load their day, they set themselves up for a day of average.
We all have greatness within us. I believe a lot of people are going through their lives and they sort of resign themselves to being average. And they just think people like the great entrepreneurs and the great heroes and the great humanitarians and the great scientists are cut from a different cloth. And what a lot of good research is starting to show us is you don't get lucky, you create lucky. And if you look at the superstars, the great performers, they're not cut from any kind of a different cloth or DNA. They're just running different habits, changing millions of lives one morning at a time.
What if you could change anything about your life just by changing the way you start your day? What would you change?
It's easy to blame other people, outside forces. But when we allow our outer world to dictate our inner world, we give away our power. We lose control. And in doing so, we feel stressed and we get depressed and we experience fear and anxiety and life becomes a struggle. If you look at many of the most productive people in the world, they all had one thing in common. They were early risers. Learn the morning routines of the world's most successful people. My morning routine is everything. You don't think that it's a routine, but hitting the snooze alarm four or five times a morning is a routine. Great lives are created one great day after another. And those great days start with great mornings. When we have a solid morning routine that works for us, we start the day on our terms. Your morning rituals are the cure to insecurity. That date that I started, the miracle morning, that was the date that changed everything. Dive deeper into the science behind morning routines. The brain patterns produced when you're imagining a scene are actually the same as when you're seeing that thing. Meditation actually increases different neurotransmitters in our brain. We now know that the more sleep deprived you are, the faster cancer cells multiply. I wish I had more energy to be more chipper, but it's going on. It's 1:13 in the morning. I've had my lung drained four times and I can't figure out what's wrong. I'VE been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Can a morning routine save your life?
Despite all the positivity. I could die with a wife and two babies. Leaving them is terrifying. Not a morning person.
