Quotes About Routine

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days." –Annie Dillard

Lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day."—a Yiddish saying, author unknown

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.

Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: "We are what we do repeatedly.

At least three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question:

after Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy,

The perfect day is caffeine for 10 hours, alcohol for 4. It balances everything out perfectly.

Más del 80 por ciento de los entrevistados practica a diario alguna forma de conciencia plena (mindfulness) o de meditación.

I use [Palumbo's] protein powder, by Species Nutrition. Every morning, I roll downstairs and: 2 scoops of whey protein [Isolyze], ice, a bunch of powdered Starbucks coffee, some macadamia nut oil, and I make a shake. That's the start.

a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.

it's nice to know that when you get started each day seems to matter less than learning how to get started consistently, however

frame the importance of the first 60 to 90 minutes of the day.

1—Make Your Bed (<3 minutes)

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. —ANNIE DILLARD, winner of Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, 1975

3—Do 5 to 10 Reps of Something (<1 minute)

4—Prepare "Titanium Tea" (this name was a joke, but it stuck) (2 to 3 minutes)

5—Morning Pages or 5-Minute Journal (5 to 10 minutes)

It's not what you know, it's what you do consistently.

if you can't see your rocks on your calendar, they might as well not exist. This is doubly important for things like sleep and exercise. If you don't put those in first, no one will.

Check e-mail twice per day, once at 12:00 noon or just prior to lunch, and again at 4:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. are times that ensure you will have the most responses from previously sent e-mail. Never check e-mail first thing in the morning.12 Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading e-mail as a postponement excuse

Try one or more of Chade-Meng Tan's suggested exercises, starting on page 154. They are simple and brilliant. I practice a few times per week, often in the sauna.

a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling.

We are what we do repeatedly.

case—a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.