{"id":735,"date":"2022-07-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figartconsulting.com\/wordpress\/?p=735"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:19:53","slug":"the-perfect-morning-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figartconsulting.com\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/14\/the-perfect-morning-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Morning Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The perfect morning routine, down to the minute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Did you know The Perfect Morning Routine will bring about health, wealth, and happiness? I didn’t until fairly recently, and I learned it from a very special source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned on the treadmill. I find treadmills deeply tedious, so I would often grab my tablet to watch some videos while I pretended to take a walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being interested in self-improvement and productivity, I ran across a series of videos on YouTube with attractive young men talking Very Seriously about their morning routines and how that increased their productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They would get up before dawn, do some meditating, exercise, eat a beautifully prepared protein-rich breakfast, and read some Improving Literature before getting on with a long bike ride to the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a firm believer in bookending one’s day, the proscriptive “routines” they’d come up with often had me snickering and wondering how long such perfection endured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long enough to finish the production of the video? Maybe a few months until the season changed and that ten-mile bike ride would have been dangerous in the dark?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do I think exercise is Important? Well, obviously. I was exercising while watching the darn things and had gone to the expense of putting a treadmill in my house!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do I think nourishing oneself well is Important? Yeah, I am managing a health condition with diet until some of my organs give out on me and rebel and I have to go on meds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the prescriptiveness of it that makes me laugh and wonder if the procrustean nature of the routine wouldn’t become onerous after enough time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did an experiment with a finely-tuned “Morning Routine.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How long did that last, and did it do me any good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evaluation of Life Experiments is part of my Get Control of Your Life!<\/a><\/em> course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign up<\/a> to find out! The results may be surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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