Or, if you’re a fan of plain text, grab the text from our gist below and paste it into any notes or to-do app you like. The PDF is perfect for printing and handwriting your morning routine. If you’re a Todoist user, import the Todoist template and make the tasks repeat daily to keep you on track. Grab the Google Doc if you want to see some more example routines, as well as a blank template you can fill out yourself.

We’ve made four formats of our morning routine template.

Look through today’s to-do list and plan what to work on.

Now it’s just a matter of getting myself ready for work and starting my day.

Watch football (this is more fun than important, but it’s the only time I set aside every day to relax and enjoy watching old games)īy this point I’m fairly awake, and I’ve spent some time relaxing and focusing on things I care about.

Make coffee and tea (I drink the coffee first, because the tea stays hot for longer and coffee makes me thirsty).

In the past this has often included some time spent writing or working on personal side projects. Evidently routined has something to do with learning my computer usage patterns but its not clear what purpose this has, whether its a personalization feature, or what. I try to include some time in my morning routine for activities I care about. Right now routined 'CPU Time' is 7 hours, which is more than any other process like Window Server, kerneltask, etc.

Check email (not often recommended this early in the day, but the light from my phone helps wake me up and I don’t use social media so there’s nothing else to check)ĥ:50 a.m.

If I’m not careful, I’ll quite easily fall asleep again after waking up, so these steps are designed to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Download routined