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your life
before
breakfast
Remember when you were a kid going to bed on
Christmas Eve or the night before your birthday, and
you were so excited you didnt fall asleep for hours?
And then the next morning, despite having barely
slept, you woke up with that same level of excitement
for what the day would hold?
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Change Your Life Before Breakfast
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Be brave
enough
to Change
A few years ago, I went through a rough patch. I was
depressed, and there was no logical reason for it I
had a great marriage, a great company, great people
to work with. I had it all except happiness.
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Change Your Life Before Breakfast
Time
Matters
As we start to work through the six steps, theres
something to keep in mind: The time of day you
practice this makes a difference. And the night owls
arent going to like this, but that time is the morning.
Yes, even if you think you do your best work after the
sun goes down.
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day in a positive way. Youre programming your mind
as to how its going to approach the rest of the day, and
youre creating a positive expectation for what follows.
How you start the day changes the quality of the entire
day. Some people argue that how you start the morning
is the biggest, most important thing you can do to
change your life.
Now, lets get into those steps. Many of the worlds most
successful people swear by one or two of these six steps.
But an amazing thing will happen when you combine all
of them even if its for a short duration.
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Clear
Your
Mind
We live in a world of noise. Sometimes its audible,
and other times a lot of the time its the noise of
constantly checking our phones and the news.
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five steps, and a centered start to your day. But dont
be fooled by the outwardly static appearance of this
step its not easy. Youre not just sitting there. Youre
stilling your mind and tuning out the world.
Stilling your mind can help relax and lower your blood
pressure, help you find focus and give you energy. It
centers you before the chaos of the rest of your day
arrives.
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Say
it
If youre a fan of 1990s late-night TV, you probably
remember Stuart Smalley. He was a character on
Saturday Night Live played by Al Franken.
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into the habits that will achieve our Write them down, and repeat them
goals. to yourself for five to 10 minutes
each morning. As you do so, that
Heres an example: My wife, Kim, will start to lead naturally into the
talks to a lot of women through next step.
our work who are afraid of taking
their first step on the way to
wealth. Theyre fearful of parting
See
with their money for investments,
of making a mistake, of looking
like they dont know what theyre
doing.
it
Instead of encouraging them to
say something like, Money flows
to me effortlessly which only
results in someone waiting for
money to show up, which isnt
going to happen those women
can tell themselves an affirmation
like, Im committed to earning X Visualization runs into the same
dollars by doing Y action every day issues as affirmation. Theyve
by Z date. been taught as a magical, vague
way to dream yourself to your
This isnt just wishful thinking; goal. Those who teach them urge
now its an actionable plan. And people to visualize the perfect
by repeating this to themselves, outcome the high-paying job, a
theyre creating the expectation dream house, a great body but
in their mind that theyre actually thats too general.
going to take that action. Theyre
reprogramming the pathways in Just as your affirmations need to
their brain. be focused on specific steps, so
do your visualizations. You cant
Think back to the specific goal you just visualize yourself sitting in the
want to accomplish. What are the corner office. Figure out the steps
steps to getting there? that will get you there and visualize
those.
Create affirmations from those
action steps. Make them specific. Lets say you want to get in shape.
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You dont just visualize yourself sitting on the beach
in your swimsuit. Instead, visualize yourself packing
your gym bag and making it to the gym every day
with a positive attitude. Picture yourself using the
machines at the gym and growing stronger. Visualize
yourself going to the grocery store, selecting fresh
produce and lean meats, and then returning home
and turning those ingredients into a delicious meal
that leaves you satisfied.
Move
it
Up until now, weve focused on your mind. Now its
time to get the blood flowing to the rest of your body.
Now, if you like going to the gym after work, you can
still do this. The exercise Im talking about in this step
isnt a replacement for a full-on workout. Its five to 10
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minutes of getting the body moving before you start
the day.
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Become
a
Bookworm
Reading is the next step in your You know the saying, Garbage
morning ritual. And no, I dont in, garbage out? You could also
mean reading friends posts on say, Negative in, negative out.
Facebook or the latest murder Whatever youre feeding your mind
mystery by your favorite author. will become what you send back
into the world.
What this step is about is the kind
of books that help you develop If you surround yourself with angry
the skills, mindset and wisdom headlines on the news, thats how
to improve areas of your life. This youll see life. But if you spend part
isnt recreational reading, but of your morning feeding your brain
empowerment for your mind. positive knowledge and life skills,
your general outlook will greatly
And it doesnt matter what your improve.
goal is. Just as the Internet is a
great source for quick exercise And again, its not an hour of
routines for your morning ritual, required reading before you
the information age were living head to work. Spend 10 minutes
in means that no matter the area immersed in the book and then
of your life you want to improve, move on with the next step. Youre
odds are there are at least a dozen not trying to change your life in
books that can teach you how to one morning, but instead you are
do so. building the neural pathways to
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create the kind of habits that propel you to your goals.
Find a book about an area you want to improve. It
could be business-related, or relationships, or even
a biography of someone whose life youd like to
emulate. Ive been reading a book about Gandhi Ive
gone through the book three times and have picked
up new things each time and it has changed my
outlook just by reprogramming my brain before I go
to work in the morning.
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Write
it
Down
Journaling isnt just for tweens writing about their
secret crushes. Writing your thoughts and intentions
has a power seeing something in ink makes it real.
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Theres no one right way to journal. You might like a
spiral-bound notebook and a fancy pen. Maybe you
work better on a screen in a Word document or app.
It might be a blank book or screen that works for you,
or one that has writing prompts like the Five Minute
Journal.
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Minimum time
Maximum impact
We all get into ruts. You go to Rather than looking at these
work, you come home, you sit in steps and saying, I already know
front of the TV and your day is that, try replacing your reaction
over. That isnt going to magically with, Am I living that? Are you
change by itself; you have to approaching life with that positive
take the steps toward personal outlook, or are you scattered and
development to really alter your life stressed and in a rut? Why not give
trajectory. the morning ritual a try?
None of the steps Ive listed here is Doing all of these steps for just
revolutionary. Youve heard about one morning, or even a few days
all of these, but dont let that make in a row, isnt going to dramatically
you stop listening. The power change your life. Do them every
of these steps is doing them in day for 21 days straight or, even
combination and doing them every better, for 30 days. Notice how
single day. Even if you can do each your outlook begins to change.
step for just a minute or two, do See how your attitude improves
it. Youll be reprogramming your and how you start to actively
brain. attack your goals because youve
visualized and written out the
If I play golf once, does that make specific steps you need to achieve
me a pro? No, I have to keep doing them.
it. Practice makes perfect, but
practice also makes permanent. Any one of these steps is helpful,
Whatever you do every day sets in but doing them all together
and becomes who you are. accelerates how quickly your life
changes.
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The amazing thing about creating Lets review what those steps are:
the habit of doing all six practices
for just a few minutes every 1. Clear your mind: Spend a few
morning is that it will start to minutes meditating and being
change other parts of your day. mindful of what is going on
Rather than dreading getting up within your body. Tune out
and making yourself go through a the world and yourself.
routine, you might all of a sudden
want to create even more time 2. Say it: Create specific, action-
in the morning for it by going to based affirmations about
bed earlier and forgoing that late- the steps you need to take to
night TV or vegging out on the achieve your goal.
computer.
3. See it: Visualize those steps
You could even find yourself in vivid detail, and train your
recapturing that night-before-your- brain to accomplish them.
birthday joy you had as a child,
where you greeted the day with 4. Move it: Get the oxygen and
enthusiasm for all the wonders it blood flowing; it not only
might hold instead of a heavy helps energize your day, but
sigh and wondering why the alarm those few minutes help you
came so early. not neglect your health.
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Start your morning off with these steps and get ready
to achieve your goals. Try it for 30 days and see how
your life changes. Its a small time investment for big
life dividends.
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