In this motivational monologue, the speaker outlines five habits that he claims are common among highly successful people such as billionaires and millionaires. He begins by citing Tim Ferriss’s research that 85‑90% of top performers wake up early and maintain a structured morning routine, providing examples like Jack Dorsey (5:30 am), Richard Branson (5:45 am), Tim Cook (4:30 am) and Howard Schultz (5:30 am). The speaker argues that early rising creates personal time for meditation, journaling, exercise, and self‑care before entering “someone else’s time.” The second habit is writing goals down. He references a Harvard study where only 3 % of students wrote their goals on paper, yet those individuals were ten times more successful thirty years later. The act of recording goals is presented as a way to make them concrete, set deadlines, and develop actionable plans. The third habit is seeking mentors and coaches, described as a common practice among the elite, though specific examples are not detailed. The fourth habit focuses on cultivating self‑confidence through positive self‑talk. Using a garden analogy, the speaker explains that negative thoughts cannot yield positive outcomes, and urges listeners to interrupt negative internal dialogue and replace it with constructive thoughts, emphasizing that the second thought can be consciously controlled. The final habit is continuous reading and the principle of kaizen (constant improvement). He notes that the average CEO reads about 60 books per year—more than one per week—and encourages adopting a reading habit, even if it starts at one book per month. The speaker ties this to lifelong learning and incremental improvement. The video concludes with a call to action: like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes released Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Today we're going to be talking about is the five major habits that I have found almost every successful person has. Now the first one, which I think is probably the most important, but for some reason I find that almost every single successful person does this. And Tim Ferriss in his new book talks about that. He's interviewed hundreds and hundreds of millionaires and billionaires and influencers and some of the most successful people in the world. The first thing that he says that 85 to 90% of them wake up early and have some sort of morning routine. And so if you, if you just look at some of the people that I was able to find out have morning routines. You have Jack Dorsey who started Twitter, he wakes up at 5:30 every single morning and he's a multi billionaire. Richard Branson, who obviously founded Virgin and many companies and is a multi multi billionaire as well, says he wakes up at 5:45 every single morning. He actually opens his shutter so that the sun, when it comes in, it comes into his room and makes him wake up. You also look at Tim Cook, who is the CEO of Apple. He says he wakes up at 4:30 every single morning. You look at Howard Schultz, who's the guy who founded and is the CEO of Starbucks. He wakes up at 5:30 every morning. So the number one thing that I find that most successful people, extremely successful people do is they wake up early and they have some sort of morning routine. And you might ask yourself why would they wake up early? The reason why is because that's the time where they can focus on themselves. When you go into the office or you go into work, usually you're on someone else's time. Whether you own your own business and you're on all of your employees time, making sure, make sure everything's in place and everything's going the right way. Or number two is you're on your boss this time if you work for somebody. So if you have to leave your house at 8am and you wake up at 7:30, you jump in the shower and all of those things, you leave at 8, you're waking up immediately. Waking up to go into somebody else's time. That's what you're doing. You're focusing on somebody else. As soon as you wake up in the morning. These people like to focus on themselves. So they wake up a couple hours early, they meditate, they do morning routines, they journal, they have workout exercises, they have a routine. So they wake up a couple hours early to work on themselves before they do anything else. It's just like when the plane is going down, they say, put the oxygen on yourself first. When you wake up in the morning, focus on yourself first, because that will then make everybody else around you and make your life better as well. So the first thing is obviously a morning routine. The second thing that I found with the most successful people is they are very, very big on not only making goals, but actually writing their goals down. And this is key because 40 years ago, Harvard did a study and they found out that out of everyone that was in their classes or students that were there, only about 3% of them actually wrote their goals down on a piece of paper. Now, some people knew their goals or what their goals were, but not all of them. Only 3% of them wrote them down with a piece of pen and paper and wrote it down. And what they found 30 years down the road, they went back and looked at them, was that that 3% that wrote down their goals were 10 times more successful than the other 97% 30 years down the road. So if you could take a page out of their book, for some reason, writing down your goals makes it seem real in your brain. It makes you clarify exactly what you want. It makes you put a date and a deadline on exactly what you want. Sometimes it makes you look at it and say, well, now that this is on a piece of paper, I need to actually make a plan of how to hit these goals versus them just floating around in your brain. So if you have goals or New Year's resolutions that you're working on, don't just let them float around in your brain. Put them on a piece of paper, put a deadline to it, put a goal down on the piece of paper, and figure out when you're going to do it. The plan of what you have to do to get there, how you're going to get there, all of those things are important. So the most successful people accepting your money, they actually feel some sort of responsibility for you always have that. Mentors and coaches, the fourth thing that I found have self confidence. And I want to tell you this, nobody's born with self confidence. Confidence is something that you pick up along the way to success. But what they seem to realize is that they believe in themselves. And when they believe in themselves, they're much more likely to get there. And the way that I like to think about it is this. My favorite analogy. Dealing with the way that we think in our minds has to do with a garden. So the analogy is, think of your mind as a garden, and you are the only person that can tend to this garden. Nobody else can. It's impossible to go out and plant strawberry seeds in that garden and expect that somehow you're going to grow tomatoes. It's impossible. You can't put strawberry seeds in the ground and get tomatoes. Just like you can't plant negative thoughts or talk to yourself negatively in your head and expect that you're just going to have. Have positive life or a positive outcome or a positive attitude. Right? You have to learn that when. Because let's be honest, most of us are really, really harsh on ourselves. We would never talk to somebody that we love the way that we talk to ourselves in our own heads. That should not be the case though. So when you start to notice yourself talking down to yourself, you need to immediately stop it and replace that thought with something positive. Because at this point in time, if you've been talking down to yourself for a while, it's somewhat of a habit. And the only way to actually break a habit is to stop it as soon as you get into the middle of it. As soon as it starts, you try to stop it as quickly as possible. What you have to realize is you can't always control your first thought at this point because that's your automatic thought, but you can always control your second thought. So that's something you need to concentrate on. Have positive self talk to make yourself believe in yourself more than anything else. And the fifth thing that I found for the most successful people in the world is that they read often. The average CEO reads 60 books per year. 60. And we're talking about CEOs. These are people who are already at the top of companies read 60 books per year. That's more than one per week. And so if you look back at the past year, how many books have you read this year? If you want to be successful, don't you think you should just take a page out of a successful person's book and follow these five steps and go, all right, well, if they read 60 books in a year, maybe I could read once a month. And then maybe you start after you start going once a month, maybe you decide, I could probably do once a week or twice a month, whatever it might be. But you realize if these people are successful, there's steps to being successful. Take a page out of their book and do exactly what they do. Right. These people are constant learners. And one of the things my first mentor used to talk about was kaizen. It's a Japanese word for constant never ending improvement. We should all be on this journey of kaizen of constantly never ending improvement, trying to improve every single day. And the people that are already at the peak of peaks, these CEOs are still constantly trying to improve themselves and make themselves better. So don't you think that we should if we're not where we want to be at this point? So once again, those are the five things. Number one is they wake up early. Number two is that they write down their goals and they make them physical. Number three is that they have mentors and coaches. Number four, positive self talk. They believe in themselves. They have confidence. They figure out what's going on in their brain and they make sure they wire it the way that they want to with positivity. And the fifth thing is that they read very often. So if you like this episode, please do me a favor. Please give it a thumbs up, give it a like. If you have any comments, please type them down below. And I have new episodes that come out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So if you want to see more, go ahead and click the subscribe button and as well. 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