Happy Healthy Wealthy Productive Sustainable
Chapter 1: Morning Routines
A good start to your day is a great start to your happy, healthy, wealthy, productive, and sustainable life
What is the best thing you can do with two hours of your life? In my view, it is to build the perfect morning routine. This investment can boost your health, productivity, relationships, creativity, and energy for the rest of your life, paying back your 2-hour investment thousands of times over.
Here is the summary article from Chapter 1 of the Happy Healthy Wealthy Productive Sustainable project, followed by all other articles in order of publication.
How to Build a Morning Routine that Lasts a Lifetime
Your morning tends to echo throughout your entire day. A good routine can point you in the right direction, but establishing that precious morning habit is tough in our sleep-deprived world. This article shares the three steps that will get you through this challenging habit formation phase.
How to be Awake in the Morning and Sleepy at Night
Do you struggle to get up in the morning and fall asleep at night? Chances are that you’re living with a deeply confused circadian rhythm. Let’s look at three steps to fix this problem that dilutes the lives of so many people.
The Ideal Breakfast: 16 Whole Ingredients, 2 Minutes Prep Time, 1 Fine Culinary Experience
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And the breakfast in this article ticks all the right boxes: healthy, tasty, practical, and economical. Take a look to make sure you start every day right!
The Complete Guide to Planning Your Day with Google Tasks
In our complex modern world, having a good system to keep your life organized is a must. This article shares the daily planning system that emerged as the best solution for me after years of trial and error.
10 Lifechanging Insights from Reading 10 Minutes per Day
The wealth of wisdom in books is one of the greatest privileges of our modern world. This article shares the lifechanging insights I gained from reading a mere 10 minutes per day as part of my morning routine. You’ll struggle to build a more valuable habit than this one.
Forget Affirmations — It’s Time to Draft Your Personal Constitution
Affirmations: That good old self-help strategy where you repeatedly tell yourself positive things and watch them become reality. It’s a nice idea — the only problem is that it rarely works.
This article presents an approach that can achieve the desired behavioral change with a much higher success rate. A well-formulated personal constitution will gradually shape you into your best self.
5 Fun Ways to Move Your Body in the Morning
It’s hard to find time for exercise in our busy lives. That’s why the quiet early morning is such a great time to move. And as a bonus, morning movement improves wakefulness, energy, and mood, helping you get much more out of the rest of your day!
An Inflexible Guy’s Favorite Yoga Poses
Yoga is an excellent option for daily morning exercise. It’s highly convenient, very healthy, and does not require working up a big sweat.
But yoga can appear a little intimidating if you’re not blessed with the flexibility of a ragdoll. That’s why this article shares some fun yoga poses that promise user satisfaction, whether you’re flexible or not.
How to Graph Your Way to Success
Measuring something is a great way to get more of it. So, how about measuring personal growth? It’s a nice idea, but personal growth is complicated, and measuring it can be difficult and time-consuming.
This article shares a method to track your growth in as little as one minute per day. This great habit will keep you on your growth path and help you get to know yourself a whole lot better.
The Morning Routine that Emerged After 5 Years of Experimentation
My handcrafted and choreographed morning routine is one of the best investments I’ve ever made. This article shares all the steps involved. It also breaks down the time-commitment to show that this elaborate routine actually saves more time than it takes.