Highly Productive People Have a Ritualistic Morning Routine
That begins the night before.
If you listen to The Tim Ferriss Show, you know a typical question asked of his high performing guests is, “what is your morning routine?” And 95% of the time, his guests give a detailed description of how they start their days with structured ritual.
Tim Ferriss makes his bed each morning to kick off his routine. Dr. Weil sleeps with his two dogs, and the female dog licks his face each morning, waking him at 4:00 am, and then he starts his meditation practice. Oprah doesn’t use an alarm clock to wake up. Upon waking, Julia Cameron writes out three pages in longhand, which she coined as Morning Pages. Morning Pages, which first appeared in The Artist’s Way, has inspired writers since its publication in 1992.
I haven’t listened to the Brené Brown episode yet, but I’m sure as a lover of research, she must implement some system into her morning ritual.
Most writers who generate the amount of quality content, as the writers mentioned above, have some morning routine which starts the night before.
I have also noticed that many of these high performing influencers — the mentors I aspire to emulate — are writers. They may not have started as writers, but they ended up as writers, often, with at least…
