Jim Kwik explains how making your bed each morning in one or two minutes creates an early win that triggers momentum for the rest of your day. That simple accomplishment sets the tone for discipline and productivity, and returning to a made bed at night bookends your day with success.
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Let me tell you a few reasons why you wanna make your bed and why it's good for your brain. What does it take? 1, 2 minutes? Make it with excellence, because how you do that is how you're gonna do everything else in your day, because success breeds success. They call it the science of momentum, where you accomplish something the first thing in the morning and then you can build on that. When you look at a bed that's freshly made, like you're at a hotel room and you look at that hotel bed and it's immaculate, doesn't it feel good, right? But you get to come back to that. You come full circle. Finish your day, and you get to go to bed and come back to success, right? You made success in the morning, you had your day, you come back to success. So both bookends of your day, first thing in the morning and last thing at night, you start with success.