Rewritten (en): The Daily Routine That Changed My Life (4 Habits Most People Ignore)

Creating Your Own Routine for a Purposeful Life

This article explores the importance of creating a personal routine and purpose to avoid being assigned one by societal expectations. It emphasizes how routines provide structure, focus, and a path to achieving self-defined goals, leading to a more fulfilling life.

The Dangers of an Assigned Routine

Societal Expectations vs. Personal Goals

Many people quickly adopt structures created by others, particularly societal norms, to ease life's uncertainties. However, if you don't create a routine and a purpose, society will assign one to you. Most people are progressing towards goals that were given to them; they are progressing the dreams of someone else rather than their own.

The Chaotic Hole

Without a self-created routine, life can descend into chaos, filled with unwanted responsibilities and a sense of dissatisfaction. Your life will slowly fall faster and faster down a chaotic hole into a life of responsibilities, work, people and a personality that you despise. This can lead to a life where individuals are pursuing the dreams of others instead of their own.

The Power of Self-Created Routines

Rules and Winning

A routine is a set of rules for how you live your life. Without rules, there is no game and without a game, there is no winning.

Comfort and Focus

Routines provide comfort and order, allowing the mind to focus attention more effectively. This action becomes seamless when conditioned and programmed over time.

Choosing Your Suffering

Life is suffering, but you have the ability to choose what you suffer for. Goals are the axis of this suffering, and pursuing self-defined goals leads to fulfillment. Routines will allow you to focus on these goals.

Focusing Attention and Identity

Reversing Psychic Entropy

Focusing attention reverses psychic entropy, or disorder in the mind. The pursuit of a goal brings order and awareness because a person must concentrate attention on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else.

Identity and Action

You don't need motivation or discipline when you are the person who would take certain actions. Survival is no longer just physical; it's also mental.

Mental Survival

Animals survive the information in their genetic code, while humans survive the information in their consciousness. The web of ideas that creates our personality or identity, when threatened, feels like a physical threat. The information we're exposed to as children programs who we are.

Systems and Goals

A system is the process of reaching a goal. Identity is a web of conscious and unconscious goals that determine the skills we acquire, the interests we learn, and the choices we make.

Reversing Entropy and Living the Good Life

Entropy and Clarity

When we don't have clarity on how to achieve a goal, our mind becomes disordered. Entropy is universal, and the structure of your mind or identity is an invisible building that needs to be maintained.

The Four Pillars of the Good Life

Reversing entropy and achieving a good life involves focusing on four key areas:

1. Mind: Build your intellect and knowledge.
2. Body: Maintain physical health and fitness.
3. Business: Develop your career or business ventures.
4. Relationships: Nurture meaningful connections with others. The good life is the process of becoming everything you could be.

Eternal Markets

The eternal markets of health, wealth, relationships, and happiness are where most burning problems lie. Solving your own problems and selling the solution is a way to do what you want for a living.

Habit Formation and Behavior Change

Aligning with a Holistic Goal

Align your future with a holistic, all-encompassing goal. This requires zooming out to see beyond narrow problems and changing every domain of your life on a fundamental level.

The Awareness of Problems

Goals can't exist without the awareness of a problem; goals and problems create a frame for your perspective. The first step to changing your life is to become brutally aware of the problems that make you want to change your life.

Three Steps to Seamless Behavior Change

1. Create a big vision generating goal that encapsulates each domain of Life.
2. Treat daily self-education as an absolute necessity
3. Acquiring the skill set necessary to achieve those goals.

Daily Routine Example

Here is a sample daily routine:

1. 30-Minute Morning Walk: Clear the mind, plan the day, and get physical activity.
2. 90 Minutes of Focused Work: Complete priority tasks and creative work.
3. 30-Minute Walk or Run: Further idea collection and educational material.
4. 90-Minute Focus Work Block: Administrative and client work.
5. Calls or Walk: Client interaction or continued physical activity.
6. Gym: Physical training and a work cut-off point.
7. Conversational Lunch: Socialize with a close friend or colleague.
8. Nap or Busy Work: Psychological recovery and catching up on tasks.
9. Dinner: Socialize or spend time with loved ones.

This routine is a result of years of experimentation. Take bits and pieces as inspiration for your own.