How to Start Your Day With a Win and Build Real Momentum

Welcome back to the Daily Mastermind. My name is George Wright III. I am your host here daily with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I hope you are off to a good start this week. I want to get you going with the Daily Mastermind quote of the day. You'll find this in the Daily Mastermind mobile app as well as on our Instagram and the Facebook page. The quote today is by Amy Morin, and it is, The only person you should compare yourself to is the person you were yesterday. That's such a positive thought and such a great thought to have, because I think a lot of times we look back in the past and we stress with regrets, and sometimes we're so anxious to become the person that we are in the future that we forget. All we need to do is make progress and become a better person today than we were yesterday. And that leads me to a really great topic today I wanted to talk with you about. As I was working out this morning, I thought to myself, you know, what can you do to start your day with a win? And why would you want to do that? There's so many ways to have a productive day, but nothing, nothing will help you more than to get your day off to a start with an early, early win. And the key for me today is I want to talk to you about creating a productive day by just focusing on the little things. because, look, the little things are going to create wins for you early on. And what you have to realize is that your early part of your day is going to dictate the type of day you're going to have many, many times, both in a positive and a negative way. For example, many of us get up and we hit the snooze bar. That's just something that you could create an early win by, just not hitting the snooze bar, by getting up, making your bed. We talk about that it's such a small little thing, but making your bed is something that gives you some organization, productivity, and just an early win. How about starting your day with gratitude? Waking up and immediately starting to focus on what you're grateful for. How about starting with you? How about starting with your personal development instead of everything everyone else wants you to do? When you can start early, and look, I know it sounds simple, but you have to know by now that the fundamentals are the key to success in anything. starting with the fundamentals is going to be a much stronger, more consistent way for you to create a win in your day. Because your brain doesn't really differentiate between little or big things. It's not like us. When you win and when you accomplish something and you check that box your brain sees that as an early win and it a win either way So don discount the small things you can do in your day in order to create a quick and early win Learn to stack up those wins early in the day rather than start out your day by doing things you shouldn't be doing. And right off the bat, you fall into bad habits and right off the bat, you fall into things that are not going to help you be productive. Stack those early wins up in the morning and you'll feel better. You'll feel more accomplished and you'll more than anything you're going to create a habit of creating success productivity and execution because let's let's be honest on the on the contrary your brain knows when you're being lazy as well you know when you're being lazy and unproductive or settling and starting your day with negative thought patterns or unproductive you know habits so for example here are some things you shouldn't do in the morning and yet most of them most of us do this. You shouldn't check your phone first thing. What you're doing when you check your phone first thing is you're immediately, you know, you're feeding that addictive mentality of reacting to what everyone else has got going on. What are people saying? What are people doing? What should I be reacting to? That's not a proactive direction. Also, the same goes with checking your email or checking your text messages. Don't do those first thing in the morning. Make sure that you start your morning on the right track, in the right direction before you do that. Also, don't start overwhelming yourself with all of the lists of things you've got to do that day. There's plenty of time for that. Don't start with that. Another idea is don't turn on the news. Don't turn on the TV first thing. You get the point. What I'm trying to say is in that first hour of your day, it's so critical that you have to be in control of your life, your mind, and your activities. You have a little window there to catch yourself before bad habits kick in. And in order to do this, you have to be prepared. You have to be ahead of time before you go to bed at night thinking, when I wake up in the morning, I'm going to be in control. I'm going to immediately initiate whatever I've planned for my morning and I'm going to take control. Now there's ways you can do this by preparing the night before. Be proactive about what you're doing when you start your day. Don't just get up and be reactive to whatever's happening. Let me give you some tips for that, things that I do. Because I work out early in the morning and I know I'm going to work out in the morning, I lay my clothes out ahead of time. I know what I'm going to eat for breakfast or pre-workout. Maybe you could put a playlist or videos or a podcast or something that you automatically listen to. This is literally my only exception to my phone is that I have a playlist that I immediately play. Well now that I got Alexa I just have to do that and I have to look at my phone because it very tempting The mind is tricky It going to get you caught up in things that you want to do because we formed habits for many many many years of our life Another thing you can do is prepare by having affirmations or statements that you say. The key for me has always been the minute I open my eyes. If you could start saying some affirmations or if you could start with gratitude, a great idea that I started a long time ago, and I'm not as consistent as I'd like to be, but as soon as you open your mind, you can trick your brain before it even starts thinking about all the stuff you'd like to do, like check your phone or you're tired, you're not thinking good, immediately get in the habit of starting with gratitude. Start even just laying there in bed, just start by opening your eyes and thinking of five things that you're grateful for. Because when you get started with the power of gratitude, it's very difficult for your mind to go a different direction. So start with gratitude. Create this little list in your mind of things you're grateful for, or start your morning with prayer, whatever it is that you feel will get you on the right mental track. Another thing is the night before, I've had some of the most successful people in the world that I know say that they never go to bed without creating a list of three priorities. They always have three priorities the night before that they're going to do the next day. This is a big key. It sounds so simple, but none of us do it. If you could create a list of three things that you're going to do, no matter what, before you start the day, you're going to do the next day, you'll be much more productive. And also, another key I've talked about is have your schedule already filled with the most important things. See, when you get up in the morning and then you try to figure out what you're going to do for the day, you're already behind the eight ball. You're already moving in the wrong direction. So there are plenty of things you can do to be prepared. There's a lot of things you could do to protect your mindset and prioritize your activities in advance. But the key here is to be proactive. Be proactive, not reactive, not just on the fly. That's just the worst thing you could possibly do. Preparation is the separator. Let me say that again. Preparation is the separator in your life between having a positive and a negative experience every day. Be proactive. Now, the next thing I want to mention is, and this is really important to remember, even when you don't start your day off the way you'd like, even if you don't get going, because we've had these years and sometimes decades of bad habits, and sometimes we just fall into them automatically. But even when that happens, every part of your day is a new quarter. Every part of your day is a new half. It's a fresh start. And you can choose how to finish your day as much as you can choose how to start your day. Keep that in mind You can choose how to finish your day as much as you can choose how to start your day So in order to do that the next thing I wanted to mention is you need to set yourself up for productivity and having fresh starts by time blocking your activities Instead of having a big long list of things, time chunk, like Tony Robbins says, chunk your activities and your priorities into blocks of time. This makes it very easy or much easier at least to reset and regroup in between those activities. Brendan Burchard says, you know, he always likes to move from task to task in his day by first releasing the task he just finished, then resetting his intentions for the next activity, and then hitting them with a new fresh start. This is a great way to create a fresh mindset and take a slight break in between things and reset, regroup, and reset your intentions. You know, too often we go from thing to thing to thing and our day just blends all together. You know what it's like. It's like, what have I done? There's so many things that have been accomplished, but it all just blends together. This causes stress and issues and things, and sometimes adds up to be a bad day because we never just literally reset our intentions and start fresh to finish the day strong. And then finally, I want to mention to you, it's imperative. It's so imperative that you have direction because you've got to find time in your schedule to work on your vision, your goals, your dreams, desires. This is part of being proactive. When you have direction, it's much easier to get back on track on your day. When you have direction, it's much easier to get past the bumps in the road. And when you have direction, it's much easier to see past the current situation that you're in and look into the future. Remember, it's key to execute and live in the moment, but you've got to have a strong desire to create a better life in order to pull you in the right direction, even when times aren't going the way you want. It's sort of this this idea that Ed Milet has of blissful dissatisfaction. You know, being happy, executing, productive in the moment, but knowing that you have a vision of something greater that you want to create for yourself. Anyway, that's my suggestions to help you to create some early wins in your day. I know that getting an early win will help you to create a winning day. So I hope those are ideas that will help you. And I hope, you know, this will just help you to create progress and success and truly unleash your potential because that's the goal of The Daily Mastermind. So anyway, I hope you have an amazing day. Look forward to talking with you more tomorrow. And if you have any questions and feedback, certainly hit me up on The Daily Mastermind Instagram or Facebook. I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to hear some topics that will help you to truly create the life that you were meant to live. My name is George Wright III and this has been The Daily Mastermind. Have a great day.