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AND CREATE ADAILY ROUTINE THATWORKS FOR YOU

How to Channel Your

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Why Work On Your Daily Routine? 4

What’s Your Ideal Daily Routine? 10

Dream Big, Start Small 12

Ideal Daily Routine 14

Good Habit Builder 16

Pitfalls and Dangers 17

Habit Building Resources 19

Further Reading 20



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In essence, your Daily Routine is the amalgamation

of all of your habits - good and bad. Crafting a

positive habits and rituals will help you develop

the discipline needed to reach your goals… and

will serve as the foundation for becoming the best

version of yourself that you can be.

Your habits are the building blocks of your daily life

and in them lies the potential to change the world

you live in.

By changing your habits, you can change your life…

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,

Your thoughts become your words,

Your words become your acons,

Your acons become your habits,

Your habits become your values,

Your values become your desny.”

- Mahatma Gandhi



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Not convinced? Let’s take a look at the daily rounes

of some inspiraonal people throughout history.

We’re going to look at the daily rituals of Benjamin

Franklin, Simone de Beauvoir, Winston Churchill

and Charles Darwin.

Between them, they have ran countries, won Nobel

prizes (and wars), changed the face of modern

science and published over a hundred books.

Here’s what their Daily Routines all had in common:

• They all allotted time for both work and play.

Having this balance is equally important in leading a productive life.

• Their routines were optimized around how they

work best as individuals. Their Daily Routines

aren’t made to match up with what others may

try to convince them they ‘should’ do.



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Benjamin Franklin

“What good shall I do this day?”

5am - 8am: Rise, wash, and address

Powerful Goodness; contrive day’s

business and take the resolution of

the day; prosecute the present study;

and breakfast.

8am - 12pm: Work.

12pm - 2pm: Read or overlook his accounts,

and dine.

2pm - 5:50pm: Work.

6pm - 10pm: Put things in their places, supper,

music, or diversion, or conversation; examination

of the day.

10pm - 5am: Sleep.



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Winston Churchill:

“Start the day by working from bed…”

7:30pm - 11am: Awake but remain in

bed for breakfast, read mail and read

all the national newspapers. Work (by

dictating to secretaries).

11am - 1pm: Arise from bed, bathe, take a walk

around the garden before a weak whisky & soda in

the study.

1pm – 3:30pm: Lunch with family and friends (three

courses with champagne, port, brandy and cigars).

3:30pm - 5pm: Return to the study for work, or

supervise work on the estate, or play cards or

backgammon with Clementine (his wife).

5pm – 6:30pm: Ninety minute nap after a weak

whiskey soda.

6:30pm - 8pm: Arise and bathe again for dinner.

8pm Onwards: Dinner, cigars and drinks went on

past midnight. Churchill often returned to his study

for another hour of work before bed.



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Charles Darwin

“A man who dares to waste one hourof time has not discovered the value

of life…”

7am – 7:45am: Wake up and take a

short walk.

7:45am - 8am: Eat breakfast alone.

8am – 9:30am: Work in study.

9:30am - 10am: Read ocial letters in his drawing

room, before reading family letters aloud.

10:30am - 12pm: Work in study.

12pm – 1:.45pm: Walk via the greenhouse, and then

around the sandwalk, either alone or with his dog.

12:45pm - 3pm: Lunch with his family (main meal

of the day) before reading The Times and answering

letters.

3pm - 4pm: Rest in bedroom on the sofa, smoke a

cigarette, listen to a novel or other light literature

read by Emma (his wife).

4pm – 4:30pm: Walk, sometimes farther aeld and

sometimes with company.

4:30pm – 5:30pm: Work in study, closing up the

day’s tasks.



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6pm – 7:30pm: Rest in bedroom again with Emmareading aloud.

7:30pm - 10pm: Enjoy a light tea (while his family

had dinner), followed by either backgammon with

Emma or piano and reading aloud before bed.

Simone de Beauvoir

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on

the future, act now, without delay.”

9:30am - 10am: Rise and start the day

with tea.

10am – 1:30pm: Work,

1:30pm - 5pm: Eat and spend time with friends.

5pm - 9pm: Back to work.

9pm & onwards: Evenings with friends, dining,

reading, etc. before bed



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Do you wish that you were someone who exercises

each day?

Would you like to be the kind of person who reads

for an hour before bed?

Do you want to carve out time each day to spend

quality time with your kids?

Can you be the kind of person who spends an hour

working on your novel every morning?

Well… Stop Dreaming!

You can be all of these things - a writer, a rock-

climber, a careerist, a yogi, a philanthropist, and an

awesome parent.

You can create rituals and habits that will enable

you to do all of these things, without letting your

‘work’ suer.



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You won’t begin living your dream Daily Routine

over night. But you can start building it right now.

You can create rituals and habits that will

enable you to do all of these things, without

leng your ‘work’ suer.

Your Daily Routine is simply the amalgamation of allyour habits.

And creating new habits is all about baby steps…



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Dream Big, Start Small

Pick one or two aspects of your dream Daily Routine

and start small.

Break your new habit down into the smallest, most

convenient chunks that you can.

Let’s say you want to exercise every day. Start by

doing just 10 sit-ups a day, or walking around the

block until you hit 10 minutes.

Now anchor this new action to something that’s

already part of your routine - like brushing your

teeth, or having breakfast (when was the last time

you forgot to do either of these?).

Anchoring actions is simple - every time you

do something you already do habitually, you

incorporate the new habit. So if you’re trying to

anchor taking a walk to brushing your teeth - youshould always walk right after you’re done brushing

your teeth. After a few days, brushing your teeth

will become the trigger for your daily walk.



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It can also help to set little reminders, put a sticker

on your toothbrush or a post-it by your sink and

write ‘Now Walk’ on it. Taking these simple steps willhelp to keep you living and acting consciously… and

get you closer to creating the new habits you want

in your life.

Use the worksheets in the next few pages to track

your progress…



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Pick three elements that you dream of having in

your Daily Routine and write them below. Then put

down the smallest action you can carry out, and an

existing habit you can anchor it to.

Element: ..........................................................

Action: ..........................................................

Anchor: ..........................................................

Element: ..........................................................

Action: ..........................................................

Anchor: ..........................................................

Element: ..........................................................

Action: ..........................................................

Anchor: ..........................................................



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Ideal Daily Routine

Here are a few examples:

Goal Habit: Exercise 5 times per week

Action: 10 minutes walking

Anchor: Brushing teeth

Goal Habit: Read for 30 minutes each day

Action: Read one page

Anchor: Putting on pajamas

Goal Habit: Meditate for 20 minutes each day

Action: Meditate for 2 minutes

Anchor: Showering

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The Good Habit Cheat Sheet

Use this as a starting point (pick one from each column)

Mind Body Spirit

Read two pages of a book Exercise for 15 minutes Write a gratitude list

Write down 5 ideas Drink a glass of water

when you wake up

Spend quality time

with your children

Upon waking, read

positive, inspira-

tional material

Wake up early Start the day with

positive armations

Meditate Floss Talk to someone

you trust, daily

Visualize success Spend time in the sun Review your day

Listen to some calm,

distracting music

Breathe deeply for

a few minutes

Write Morning Pages

Participate in a group of

like-minded individuals

Take a nap Laugh out loud (even

if you have to fake it)

Consciously take a mo-

ment to confront and let

go of worries and regrets

Spend time thinking

about your posture

and correcting it

Spend time on a

hobby (for pleasure)

Write down your

goals for that day

Before each meal,

drink a glass of water

Intentionally visualize

something calming,

upbeat and soothing

before you sleep

Review your

achievements

Go to sleep before 11pm Thank someone for

their role in your life

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Don’t beat yourself up if you slip up.

One of the easiest ways to ruin a good habit is to

put too much pressure on yourself. People who are

used to reaching their aspirations, working hard

and pushing themselves are often the worst culprits

when it comes to this.

It’s imperative that when you make a mistake, or

break your good habit streak, that you don’t start

on a downward spiral. The voices in our heads are

incredibly good at convincing us to give up.

If your goal is to exercise every day, but you skip a

day on your calendar - endlessly beating yourself up

over it is destructive.

One way to ght this is through practicing what I like

to call time limited frustration. It’s a technique youcan use to allow yourself to confront and experience

disappointment, without allowing it take over your

hard work and push you back to square one.

If you slip up on any of your habits, it’s natural to

feel frustrated and angry with yourself. To stop it

from taking over, allow yourself fteen minutes

(and fteen minutes only!) to experience that

frustration. Set a timer if you have to but after those



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fteen minutes are up, you have to move on and

continue as you were.

Fifteen minutes spent stewing, with focus, is

usually more than enough for you to confront your

negative emotions, work them out and realize that

everyone makes mistakes.

The purpose of this is to give you a set amount of

time in which to react in whatever way feels natural,

before resetting your goals. You can spend these

fteen minutes writing out how you feel, being hard

on yourself and doing whatever you need to do to

confront your reaction.

Allowing yourself this time will mean that your

feelings aren’t weighing you down for the rest of

the day. It gives you the chance to experience your

emotions, and then act rationally. It’s a great way

to be mindful of your inner thoughts, and meeting

them head-on will give you a power over them you

won’t expect.

When the fteen minutes are up, move on, and get

back to creating your Daily Routine.



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One of the key tools for successful habit building

is keeping track of your accomplishments, and

monitoring how you spend your time.

The simplest way to do this is with pen and paper.

Start your day with a list of goals and check them

o before bed (rinse, repeat). Then review your

records weekly, monthly, and indenitely.

If you want to take it up a notch, there are

numerous apps out there to help you go deeper.

I’m a big fan of the Way Of Life app. It helps you

both break bad habits and build good ones, with

little additional eort on your part.

By monitoring how you allocate your time and

prompting you to follow through on the goals you

set through alerts and reminders, it’s a simple way

to keep you on track.

It also helps by creating easy to digest graphical

displays of how you’re doing - from bar charts with

trend lines so you can see changes over time, to

scoreboards and pie charts. The social aspect is

particularly useful, as external accountability can be

a great form of motivation.

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Routines of Famous Creatives in History

Turns out great minds don’t think alike. Discover

how some of the world’s most original artists,

writers and musicians structured their day, based

on their ‘Daily Rituals’

The Daily Routines Of History’s Most Famous

Creative People

This wonderful infographic aims to provide a sneak

peek into the everyday lives of 16 brilliant minds

including Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Dickens,

Sigmund Freud, Victor Hugo, Charles Darwin,

Benjamin Franklin and more.

A Giant Daily Routine’s Resource How writers, artists,

and other interesting people organize their days.

How to Be the Luckiest Guy on

the Planet in 4 Easy StepsAuthor James Altucher’s excellent breakdown of the

4 things that go into his ‘Daily Practice’.

C L I C K H E R E T O V I S I T

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