You’re not gonna like this. You’re really not gonna like this.
I’m not going to talk about meditation, reading, affirmations, visualizing your success or any of that stuff.
Instead, I’m going to share with you my simple morning routine. I don’t know what’s the best part of it, but I know it works for me.
The one thing I can guarantee you is that there’s one component in there which has been proven to maximize your chances of success for thousands of years.
Here goes:
- I wake up at 6 AM sharp.
- I get up and do a set of push-ups.
- I brush my teeth, take a shower and get dressed.
- I walk out the door, to the subway station and take the train to school.
- I buy a pretzel and a coffee at the kiosk on the way out.
- I walk the last bit to school, go to the study room and eat my pretzel.
- I sit down and work. All. Day. Long.
Can you spot the part that’s important?
The thing that’ll make you successful?
Work.
Work is the variable of success.
Not some fixed combination of magic habits. Want to have a successful morning?
Remove all the friction between waking up and starting to work. That’s a useful habit for success. Making it easier to start working faster.
Talent, luck, circumstance, those all factor into the equation. But you can’t control them.
You know what you can control?
It’s the start of all good things and the end of all complaining, your one true way to win:
Work.
