The missing piece of your morning routine

Cru’s Letter

The perfect morning routine does not come from the how. It comes from the why.

Now, maybe you’ve heard people talk about finding your why way too many times and it becomes annoying because people never really explain what it means.

The simplest way to define your why is by asking yourself this question:

“What the hell do I care about?”

Then

Once you have an honest answer to that question, you can build routines made up of behaviors that reinforce what you care about.

If you care about being smart

→ start your day with something that requires your intelligence

If you care about being disciplined

→ start your day with something difficult that you don’t want to do

If you care about being healthy

→ start your day with something that promotes a healthier body

My recommendation would be to do all of those, of course, but that’s beside the point.

The value of routine is not in its ability to look cool on instagram but rather that it’s a guaranteed progression towards your best self.

With that, don’t go copying what someone else does just because you think it’s cool. Define why you want to be consistent with a certain thing and then have at it.

Now, your why can totally be fabricated but there is one criterion for it to be valid…

It has to be compelling enough to actually propel you to do the thing you set out to do.

If you choose to run every day and your why is because you want to look better, that simply will not be strong enough to convince you to run in the moments when you LEAST want to do it (this is what finding your why really prepares you for).

So, realistically speaking, you have two options:

• Create/access a strong enough why behind the routines you’re trying to carry out

OR

• Change your expectation for what the routine should consist of

Hope this helps.

-Cru

P.S. I recorded a podcast all about building effective and meaningful routines a couple weeks ago that dives further into the concepts in this newsletter. I packed a ton of value into it and I think you’ll get a lot from listening to it. You can watch/listen on Spotify or check it out on YouTube: