A good routine to start your morning helps prepare your mind for the war that is your day. Without a routine, you’re brain doesn’t have a trigger in order to get to work. I religiously follow a night and morning routine, after learning how important they are. I used to wake up whenever I felt like it, lay in bed, play on my phone and look at memes. How many of us do this? Spending an hour or more in bed doing absolutely nothing. During that time our cells are dying, and being regenerated. I don’t like to know that while I’m wasting time my body is wasting.
My routine in the morning removes all of that nonsense. I go through my routine without a phone and with total focus. I’m awake at the same time every day, except on the weekend. I’ve become a machine. There are no variables. I wake up, routine, then dominate my day like the 300 Spartans defending Thermopylae. Afterwards, my mind is clean and pure.
The morning routine can almost be thought of as a shower for your mind. It’s similar to using the andreian purge technique except it starts in the beginning of your day. You need to have a morning routine, and a night routine. I can tell you right now, it’s become the most important thing I do. All day. That’s powerful. Without my routines, my day has no structure. Structure and order is what builds empires. Below is my routine to give you an idea of what to do. Like it? Steal that motherfucker, rip it apart, break it, make it your own. Now, pay attention. This next part is important.
It doesn’t matter what your routine is. What matters is it works for you, and primes you to go to war(morning) and prepares you for rest & recovery(night).
Morning routine
My routine is broken up into these pieces
- 10 minute warm up: Usually pyramid burpees. start with 10, then do 9, then 8… Or, a long walk. What is a burpee?
- 10 minute meditation: During this time I visualize my ambitions and goals on a wide scale. While also visualizing my small goals for the day, and using an Andreian Breathing method. Both are important.
- Drink a full bottle of water: 1000 ML. Drinking a gallon of water a day is great for health, and aesthetics. Will have a post on water benefits soon. Start early.
- Check Goals and Habit Goals: A must. Remember where you are and where you want to be. Every Day
- Review Code: I review the Andreia Doctrine I use as my guiding constitution. I create my own laws for my life. Reviewed each and every day.
Nocturnal routine
- Stretch 10 minutes: I love Mixed Martial Arts. So it’s important to me to be flexible. Also, it’s good for you to be limber, and it feels great.
Mediate ten minutes: Again. Twice a day meditation. This time I say affirmations, and visualize my dreams. Real Visualization. I taste my dreams, touch them, feel them, and own them. - Schedule next day: I always know what I’m going to do tomorrow. That way, there isn’t any room to negotiate leisure time. Because Leisure is for the weak willed.
- Journal : Every Single day I journal. Ever feel like life is rushing you by? Journaling prevents that. It’s your history. It’s your legacy in words. This is a key component to living an Andreian Lifestyle. Being able to look back on last year is powerful. Are you dealing with the same problems? You’re not progressing. This alone is enough of a reason to journal.
- check goals and habit goals: Goals are life. Goals & Growth is the only reason to be alive. This is why I check twice. Once in the morning to act on them, once at night to dream on them. Both of these are incredibly important for you to succeed.
- review code: Same as the morning. My dreams are taken over by my constitution. I don’t want to follow it, I want it to run through my veins like every capillary of my blood. I demand each cell of my being stamped with Andreia.
#goals & #growth are the only reason to be alive. Nothing else matters.
— Vincent Menniti (@vinmenniti) August 6, 2016
More Reasons to Have a Morning & Night Routine
Benjamin Franklin, that one gentleman on the $100 dollar bill. Every day he followed a routine to the T. Every day he knew exactly what he was going to do. He followed it religiously, nothing got in the way of his routine. This is nothing complicated, as you can see his routine below. In fact, you don’t want a complicated routine.
Complicated routines are more difficult to follow, tend to be too long, and never get accomplished. My routines average about thirty minutes. Yours can be anywhere between five minutes, up to thirty. I don’t recommend having a routine longer than that. Anything longer than thirty minutes begins to cut into the time you need to spend owning the day. The routine isn’t meant to challenge you either. It’s a warm up for being alive. Tim Ferris, high level entrepreneur is obsessed with morning routines. His blog and podcast are full of information regarding them.
If great men from the past, and in the present are following routines, why aren’t you?
Silence.
