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Forget Morning Routines, You Need a Night Routine
Morning routines have become a popular topic on Medium. All I need to do is scroll through the productivity category, and there are at least five different writers telling me how they wake up refreshed at 5 a.m. to meditate and journal their deepest thoughts. By the time it’s 8 a.m., they’ve already written an entire novel and are brimming with peace and tranquility.
Don’t get me wrong — these aren’t bad articles. I’m all for writers sharing and swapping productivity tips, but I find it difficult to stomach these blog posts because I can’t relate to them at all.
I am not the kind of person who wakes up at 5 am to exercise, meditate and drink green tea. Most days, I’m going to keep hitting the snooze button until I’ve only left myself twenty minutes to shower, get dressed and scarf down a bagel. I’m not even fully operational until my body has had enough time to digest an entire cup of coffee.
Even if I did have enough willpower to drag myself up at 5 am and drink a gallon of coffee, my mind still wouldn’t be ready to work. I’d end up staring at a blank page for an hour while my thoughts crackled like the static noise on TV.
