My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired

by Benjamin Spall

Your mornings are a blank slate, an opportunity to start again.

What’s more, it’s harder to build a good habit stack from scratch in the afternoon, since our willpower is worn down by the stresses of the day.

providing you with ideas and inspiration for what to add to or subtract from it over time.

If you face the same situation in your relationship, embrace these differences (and head over to our Adaptation chapter for more on this).

“When you come up with a morning routine, understand that you’re undertaking it in order to do something good for yourself, not to meet some stranger’s standard of productivity.”

I remember reading many years ago in one of C. S. Lewis’s parables about a man who, after death, is walking along a road and realizes that the flowers simply appear like colored blobs to him. He is met by a spirit guide who explains that this is because he’d never really looked at them when he was alive.

Although waking up at the last minute to make it out the door on time is an okay strategy if your only goal is to avoid being fired

“Mornings prime your brain for how it will function the rest of the day.

Working out is akin to doing a good deed for your body and making an investment in your future health.

One of my favorite artists, the sculptor Brâncuşi, once said, “It’s not difficult to make things. What is difficult is to reach the state in which we can make them.”