Hey there! You're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today's episode 202, Revisiting Your Morning Routine. I released an episode about three years ago called The Lazy Genius Morning Routine.

And I still think it is such a helpful episode. I will put a link in the show notes, but today, after I give you the briefest overview of that original episode, I want to revisit the concept, especially in light of still living kind of in a pandemic, and give you one question you can ask yourself. Just one.

As you think about how your current morning routine is serving you or not. I'll also share my own current morning routine and its evolution over the last few years of it helps.

Bonus, new thing. So back in the day, including in this original morning routine episode, we used to do a lazy genius tip of the week. I still get requests years later to bring it back, but I'm going to give you something that I think is even better.

We are going to now end every episode for the foreseeable future with a lazy genius of the week.

So I get tagged on Instagram at the lazy genius multiple times a day where you all share how you're using the lazy genius principles from the book, the lazy genius way, or how you're implementing ideas from specific podcast episodes, all kinds of things.

I'm going to start sharing one of those every week at the end of each episode. So be sure you're following me on Instagram at the lazy genius and then tag me when you share some kind of lazy genius tip or application or whatever you want to share so that I can see it.

It'll be fun to bring that feature back even though it's going to look different than it before, but I think it's better because it's your ideas and your tips and celebrating y'all, which makes me happy.

Okay, let's jump into the episode.

First, a cliff-snotes version of what a lazy genius routine is, no matter where it is in the day, so build the right routines is actually a principle in my book, the lazy genius way. And the idea is not to create a list of repetitive tasks.

We think that's what a routine is, but that's really only part of it because what happens when you don't do, you know, all five of your routine steps.

So often we beat ourselves up for not completing said routine. We give up completely if we can't do it all all the time, right?

Or we think that something is wrong with the routine. So we choose a different five steps, but we can't complete those either. And then the cycle continues.

The cycle continues because you're starting from the wrong place. Without this lens, without this lazy genius lens, you're starting from the what, from the pieces of your routine, rather than starting with the reason for your routine.

A lazy genius routine is an on ramp. It is a collection of choices that take you where you want to go. But those choices really are secondary. They are far less important than where you are going.

So for a morning routine, the point for most of us, and I shared this in the last episode, is to kindly open the day with purpose and gradually increase your productive energy. I'll say that again.

The purpose of a morning routine is to kindly open the day with purpose and gradually increase your productive energy.

You might have a different purpose than that, but I think that it's a safe definition for most of us to start from. So if that's the case, you know, it's great.

We can all choose what that gradual increase looks like individually. We can, we can choose different things. You don't have to get up at 5 a.m. unless that matters.

You don't have to exercise first thing in the morning unless that matters. You get to decide what pieces create that kind opening gradual increase of productive energy.

Another thing I said in that first episode that feels worth repeating here is that a morning routine helps you feel like yourself first thing so that you're not frantically searching for yourself throughout the day.

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