Are Your Morning Success Rituals… Successful?
There’s a lot out now about different morning routines that you should be doing.
They have a lot of value and make an impact on the productivity of your day. But the key is asking yourself, What’s the purpose of my morning ritual?
I tried a lot of different variations. Starting first thing in the morning with a long morning bath, cold showers, meditation, yoga, journaling, exercise, and so on.
But if you’re only trying a lot of things without a clear goal, you have no idea if it’s working. You don’t know what you’re optimizing for.
Let’s assume that your overall goal is to rapidly build a profitable business from scratch for the first time.
You’re going to need to put in a lot of time. It’s going to be intense. If you spend an hour in the bath, then an hour doing yoga, some time making breakfast, journaling, and then procrastinate getting the hard tasks done, your odds of achieving your goal isn’t high.
The thing that you’re optimizing for doesn’t need to stay the same. Ask yourself, Is this still serving my purpose?
Motivation becomes your goal. Doing anything is better than the current status of doing nothing. Maybe it’s because you’re watching too much Netflix. You need easy wins for motivation.
In this case, you might start your morning with doing just one small thing that takes 5 minutes. You get a feeling of accomplishment. You’ve taken action.
Once you’ve got that mastered, you can move on to activities that’ll actually move the needle. Now it’s time to ask yourself, What the most important activity I can do today that will make a big impact?
Now you’ve got that nailed, you realize that you’ve only been doing important and urgent activities. But you’re not doing the important but non-urgent activities since there’s no time pressure and everything else has taken priority. But it’s exactly this activity that will make the largest difference over the long run.
How can I ensure that I keep the operation alive while continuing to drive long term growth? Typically important and non urgent activities can go on forever (e.g. learn marketing, how to hire the best people, build internal systems) so you decide to allocate an hour in the morning and then the rest of your tasks in terms of importance and urgency.
Ask yourself, What’s the purpose of my morning ritual?
Then throughout the day, you can ask yourself, Is what I’m doing working?
A lot of times, the answer will come out no. Maybe you’re getting a lot of distractions. Maybe you’re not being consistent with your daily routines.
Reflect. Ask yourself, How can I make this look easy? Break it down. Lower the commitment.
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