Morning Ritual

• Many successful people have a morning ritual. For some, it's meditation. For others, it's exercise. For many, it's journaling - just a few pages where they write down their thoughts, fears, hopes. In these cases, the point is not so much the activity itself as it is the ritualized reflection...

• You need to wake up before the insanity starts. Before your goals for the day have competition.
• The second part of your morning ritual is about mood. That feeling of control is what produces grit and makes people persist.

Those first few moments when you put yourself together in the morning can bring a surge of self-confidence.