

Productivity expert and author James Clear (a Zapier user!) has a simple "pre-game routine" to kickstart his day: pouring a cold glass of water. Media mogul Shonda Rhimes has a strict morning routine to get her into a creative state of mind: eating breakfast, exercising, and writing from 8 a.m. A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one's mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods." "In the right hands, can be a finely calibrated mechanism for taking advantage of a range of limited resources: time (the most limited resource of all) as well as willpower, self-discipline, optimism. Even though their routines varied wildly, each individual had steps they followed to put them in an optimal state of mind.Īfter studying the great artists, Currey came to this conclusion: In his book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Mason Currey writes about the habits, routines, and rituals of hundreds of artists, including Maya Angelou, Frederic Chopin, Haruki Murakami, Nikola Tesla, and Louis Armstrong. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
