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Morning Routines Are Useless Until They Aren’t
They need to keep you grounded when nothing else can
Morning routines and night routines are trendy topics regarding personal growth and entrepreneurship in general.
Some claim that a solid morning routine is a reason why they can be productive for the entire day. Some even wrote books about it, like The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod, who explains that you need to wake up hours before everyone else if you want to get anything done during the day.
I’ve been working from home for more than two years now, and I’ve been reading about routines for a while as they seem to help with getting things done and getting the structure you need when you work remotely.
Naturally, I’ve read hundreds of morning routines, from famous entrepreneurs, personal development coaches, YouTubers, lifestyle gurus, and people here on Medium.
They’re pretty much all similar. They all involve waking up fairly early, some sort of hot beverage, journaling, meditating, planning out your day, work out. Only the order of these tasks seems to differ.
I started experimenting, finding the right order and the right activities for me. But then I got confronted with another issue: how can I tell if the routine is helping me at all?
