Perfect daily routine for students [full guide]
Summary
TLDRThe speaker discusses the importance of establishing a personalized daily routine, emphasizing the need to identify 'win the day' tasks and structure the day around them. They suggest starting with a basic structure, gradually improving it, and standardizing repetitive decisions to conserve energy. The speaker also highlights the value of experimentation in optimizing one's routine for maximum productivity.
Takeaways
- 😴 Morning routines can be overwhelming, but finding a personalized routine is crucial for productivity and satisfaction.
- 🏃♂️ Not everyone thrives on early mornings or marathons; it's about finding what works for you, similar to choosing the right music genre.
- 📅 Structure your day around the 'win the day' tasks – those few key activities that make you feel productive if accomplished.
- 🌞 Identify when you work best and schedule your most important tasks during those times for optimal productivity.
- 📝 Keep your routine flexible and non-restrictive by focusing on the big tasks and not micromanaging every minute of your day.
- 🔄 Be prepared to fail and adjust; starting with a routine and achieving even a small percentage of it is better than no routine at all.
- 🌱 Gradually improve your routine by increasing the percentage of your 'perfect day' that you achieve over time.
- 🛑 Standardize repetitive decisions like what to wear or when to eat to conserve mental energy and focus on more important tasks.
- 🔧 Optimize your routine through experimentation, finding what works best for you in terms of time, location, and activities.
- 🏋️♀️ Balance structure with flexibility, ensuring your routine is both effective and enjoyable, and not overly rigid or restrictive.
- 📱 Consider using digital tools like WhatsApp for convenience in managing and updating your routine, but also weigh the benefits of physical checklists for the satisfaction of ticking off tasks.
Q & A
What is the speaker's initial attitude towards morning routines and why?
-The speaker initially finds morning routines difficult to follow, often giving up after a few days. They attribute this to a distaste for routines, possibly developed from the restrictive timetables in school.
Why does the speaker believe routines are like music?
-The speaker compares routines to music because everyone likes music, but they need to find the genre that suits their taste. Similarly, finding a routine that is optimized and fits an individual's preferences is key to making it work for them.
What are the three steps the speaker suggests to set up a long-term routine?
-The three steps are: 1) Identifying 'win the day' tasks that make the day feel productive, 2) Structuring the day around these tasks, and 3) Adjusting the mindset to accept and gradually improve the routine.
What does the speaker mean by 'win the day' tasks?
-'Win the day' tasks are the most important tasks that, if completed, would make the day feel productive and successful, regardless of anything else done during the day.
How does the speaker structure their day around 'win the day' tasks?
-The speaker structures their day by placing the 'win the day' tasks during the time they work best, such as mornings, and leaving blocks of time for other activities, focusing on the big tasks rather than minute details.
Why does the speaker emphasize not dictating every single second of the day?
-The speaker believes that dictating every second of the day can make the routine feel restrictive, similar to school timetables. Instead, they suggest focusing on the big tasks and leaving flexibility for other activities.
What is the speaker's approach to handling failure in following a routine?
-The speaker acknowledges that failure is part of the process and suggests being okay with not achieving 100% of the perfect day. They encourage starting with small percentages and gradually improving over time.
What is the significance of the mindset mentioned in step two of the speaker's routine setup?
-The mindset in step two is about accepting that perfection is not achievable at first and that even doing a small percentage of the perfect day is better than not having a routine at all. It's about progressive improvement and being grateful for incremental progress.
What does the speaker mean by 'standardizing' in the context of routines?
-Standardizing refers to making one-time decisions for repetitive tasks, such as what to wear or when to eat, to conserve time and energy. This helps in reducing the cognitive load of making small decisions every day.
How does the speaker approach optimization in their routine?
-The speaker approaches optimization through experimentation, trying different factors like the time of day or location for tasks, and then adjusting based on what works best for them.
What advice does the speaker give regarding the simplicity of a routine?
-The speaker advises keeping the routine simple, focusing on removing unnecessary elements rather than adding more. They emphasize that simplicity is usually key to making a routine sustainable and enjoyable.
What is the speaker's method for recording their daily routine?
-The speaker records their daily routine in a WhatsApp group chat with only themselves, which allows for easy access and modification on their phone, rather than using a physical notebook.
Outlines
🏃♂️ Embracing Personalized Routines
The speaker discusses the challenge of following strict routines and how they initially struggled with the idea of adhering to a daily schedule. They liken routines to music, suggesting that finding the right 'genre' or type of routine that suits an individual is crucial. The speaker shares their personal approach to creating a routine that they could stick to long-term, emphasizing the importance of identifying 'win the day' tasks – those few critical tasks that, if completed, make the day feel productive. They also highlight the importance of structuring the day around these tasks, adapting the routine to one's most productive times of the day. The speaker uses a WhatsApp group chat with themselves as a tool to easily manage and visualize their daily tasks, suggesting a flexible yet structured approach to routine.
🌟 Mindset Shift for Routine Success
In this paragraph, the speaker addresses the common mindset challenges associated with establishing and maintaining routines. They acknowledge that failure to follow a routine perfectly is normal and encourage viewers to be okay with not achieving 100% adherence initially. The speaker suggests that even partially following a structured day is significantly better than an unstructured, average day. They emphasize the importance of progressive improvement, gradually increasing the percentage of the 'perfect day' one can achieve. The speaker also discusses the concept of 'short sprints' of high-intensity work followed by rest periods, suggesting this as an effective way to structure one's day for maximum productivity.
🛠️ Standardizing and Optimizing Daily Routines
The speaker delves into the process of standardizing and optimizing daily routines. They explain that standardization involves making one-time decisions for recurring tasks, such as deciding what to wear or when to eat, to save mental energy. The speaker suggests creating a list of these standardized tasks to streamline the routine. Once standardization is achieved, optimization comes through experimentation and adjusting various factors to find what works best for the individual. The speaker shares their personal experience of finding the best time and conditions for recording videos, highlighting the importance of simplicity in routines. They encourage viewers to focus on important tasks and remove unnecessary elements to maintain a straightforward and effective routine.
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Keywords
💡Routine
💡Morning Routine
💡Win the Day Tasks
💡Structure
💡Deep Work
💡Standardizing
💡Optimizing
💡Incremental Progress
💡Mindset
💡Simplicity
Highlights
The importance of finding a personal routine that suits individual preferences, rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach.
The concept of 'win the day tasks' which are the key activities that make a day productive.
Structuring the day around the most important tasks to ensure they are completed.
The idea that routines should be flexible and not overly rigid, similar to how people enjoy different types of music.
Using a WhatsApp group chat with oneself to easily manage and update daily routines.
Focusing on the big tasks and leaving blocks of time free for other activities.
The belief that short sprints of high-intensity work followed by rest periods are most effective.
The mindset of accepting failure as a part of the process and gradually improving over time.
The concept of 'onetime decisions' to reduce daily decision fatigue and conserve mental energy.
Standardizing routine tasks like sleep and wake times to simplify daily choices.
The process of optimizing a routine through experimentation and finding what works best for the individual.
The importance of simplicity in routines and the idea of removing unnecessary elements to focus on what's essential.
The suggestion to start with a basic routine and gradually add complexity as one becomes more comfortable.
The idea that even doing a small part of your ideal routine can be more productive than having no routine at all.
The strategy of progressively overloading tasks to gradually increase productivity and routine adherence.
The personal anecdote about watching movies when off routine, highlighting the importance of routine for productivity.
The debate between using digital tools like WhatsApp for routine management versus the tactile satisfaction of paper checklists.
Transcripts
you know how online you can see people
with their crazy morning routines where
they wake up at like 3:00 a.m. then go
for a quick you know a quick Marathon
just to get the blood flowing
you know what I mean but I could never
follow a routine I would follow it for a
couple days like two three days and then
I would just give up I would try but I
just couldn't so I just thought oh I
guess I'm not a routine person whatever
the that means and I think I got
this distaste for Tim taes and routines
and most of us do from school because
school made timetables restrictive thing
that had just too much in it but
then I realized that's because the
routines they made was not optimized for
me it was supposed to be a cookie cookie
cutter routine that could fit the
thousands of students in the school and
so routines are like music Everyone
likes music it's just that you need to
find the music that suits your taste
that is right for you the genre that you
like so once you find a routine that's
optimized and fit for you that is how
you get the most out of it and that's
how you become a routine person so
here's how I set up my routine and stuck
to it for the long term in just three
steps all right so step one that I have
here is structure and what I thought
when I set up when I started setting up
my routine was okay there is like one or
two tasks in my day that if I did those
tasks I would classify my day as a win
like a not horrible day and I and I
named it the win the day tasks basically
if I did these tasks I would consider
the day a win and so if I just studied
exercised recorded one YouTube video I
would class that day as a productive day
like not as a waste even if I did
nothing else for the rest of the day I
would still consider that day as a win
so what are your win the day tasks maybe
it's studying maybe it's the gym write
them down and really clarify why they
are the most important tasks and this is
going to be the most important sentence
for this part that I've written down
structure your day around the win the
day tasks I'll say that again structure
your day around the win the day tasks
and so the way I structure is I work
best in the morning so I'm going to put
most of those tasks in the morning if
you work best at night put at night if
you work best in the afternoon put in
the afternoon you get what I'm saying
right to help you visualize here is like
literally the timetable I'm using for
today and also to make the routine seem
as least intimidating and as less rigid
as possible I used to write it down on
like a notepad but now I just write it
in a WhatsApp group chat with just
myself in it so I just text myself and
it's good because I can bring whenever I
wherever I go because it's just on my
phone so I would just open like WhatsApp
at night and it takes like 2 minutes
because I can copy paste from the
previous day like the same routine copy
paste cuz most of my days repeat anyway
right so here it is morning deep work
we're going to record this video from 8
to 9:30 then we're going to study with
some practice papers I actually have
them on my desk right
now that's another 3 hours from 9:30 to
12
in the afternoon going to have lunch gym
then just around for a bit dinner
and then at night we're going to do
practice papers for another hour and a
half so that's 3 hours and 30 minutes in
the morning that's 1 hour and 30 minutes
at night that's 5 hours of deep work
total in the whole day um editing rough
here but I forgot to mention that on
that day I also uploaded a video like
that was one of my win the day tasks so
just mentally put it in cuz I forgot to
say that but yeah all right um
transition and then the afternoon's just
for me to like around a bit and
just relax right and so some important
things I want to highlight firstly
notice how I structured it around the
big task I didn't write wake up I didn't
write drink coffee I didn't write brush
teeth I'm just going to focus on the big
task I don't have to write you know
749 to 750 walk from toilet to
bedroom like that's not you know that's
not needed that sounds like something
school would do and dictate every single
second which is what makes it feel
restricting so instead of that instead
of dictating your time in every single
second just block out time for work and
then block out time for other things
because I just want to focus on those
big task and the time in between them
doesn't really mattered much to me so
for example if I spent 2 hours here
studying and afterwards there's a bit of
a block that block is just free and I
also leave these blocks because maybe I
spend 2 hours studying but I will
overshoot the time I intend to do it for
2 hours but actually takes me 3 hours
well that's safe because I have this
block here as extra time so structure
day around those important tasks you
don't have to write those smaller things
you can if you want and then the second
thing is notice how I've structured my
day with a short Sprint of 3 hours okay
that's not that's not very short but
like 3 hours of work in the morning
afternoon is just rest and then in the
night I do another short Sprint of work
which is what I it's one of my beliefs
right if you see my burnout video this
one right here I work best when I have a
short Sprint of high intensity work
followed by long periods of rest and so
because of this I have two short Sprints
and one recovery if you want just one
short Sprint and one recovery that's
also possible it depends on how much you
need to get done so yeah just to
summarize focus on the important task
and then in between the important tasks
have long periods of rest and put the
important tasks at the time that you
work best so if you work best in the
morning put in the morning all right so
step two is mindset and the important
thing to know is that you will fail like
when you set up this perfect day there's
no way you're going to get it first try
and what used to happen is that I'll set
up the perfect day I would follow it for
like 10% of the time I of the three
things I would only do one thing and I
was like oh I failed because I didn't
finish everything right but then I
thought okay let me think about my
average day like the normal average day
think about your average day right where
you did nothing you just passively
consumed for the whole day you just
switch places where you consumed so you
consume on your black computer
chair looking at your laptop and then
you go to your bed on your phone then
you go to the couch watch on your phone
then come back to your computer chair
that's like your average day if you
didn't have any structure any routine
guess what I'm trying to make you
remember those days but the thing is I
don't even remember any of those days
because they are so forgettable because
nothing happened like that's how
forgettable it is so basically what I'm
trying to say is that if you just follow
your perfect day even 10% of the time
that is still far better than your
average day so for now if you're just
starting be okay with 10% Like honestly
right now I get so much done in in the
morning that for the rest of the day I
kind of just around and slack
because you know in the afternoon you
get that afternoon slump where at 2:00
p.m. your brain doesn't work you want to
lie down and everything like I'm not
productive during that time so like my
morning routine is good my afternoon is
like kind of up then my nighttime
routine is good so it's like two out of
three right two out of three that is 66
6666666 6% just round it up to 70%
because I'm not a nerd so I've
done 70% of my perfect day should I be
sad that I didn't finish 100% of it of
course not right like I've been been on
self-improvement for a year I've only
started thinking about routines and
everything probably 6 months into that
so in 6 months I've gone from 0% off my
perfect day to
70% so if you're starting right now you
cannot expect to do 100% And I see 70%
as an absolute win so just be grateful
um this week do 10% next week do 20% the
week after that you get the gist right
so basically going to progressively
overload this I say this in every video
but that is the basis of selfimprovement
when you start you start small and you
develop as time goes on just have the
mindset of doing a little bit better
than last week or last month so if last
month you did 20% of your perfect day
this week or this month do 30% that's it
and think of how easy that is
bro like if you want to do 10% of your
perfect day 10% of 24 hours is 2.4 hours
you just need to not up 2.4 hours
the rest of the day the other 22 hours
you can do whatever the you want
that's fine and you'll still make
progress for someone like like for me to
get to make progress I have to finish
80% of my perfect day I have to get like
what's 80% of 24
bro 19.2 I need to I need to get 19
hours of my day correct for me what is
the camera like that like for me I need
to get 19 hours on my day correct for me
to make progress for you you just need
two hours come on just need you can
up the rest bro let's chill basically
aim for 100% but be okay with those
little incremental bits and see them as
just small winds on the way to getting
your perfect day step three
standardizing and optimizing that rhymes
so um bars all right we're going to
focus on standardizing first so
standardizing is when you make this
thing called a onetime decision a
onetime decision is like this you know
every day you make small decisions like
when to eat what to eat what to wear
these things take up a little bit of
time and energy think about it like if
you think of what to eat every single
day that's three times a day that saps a
little bit of time a little bit of
energy three times a day 21 times a week
90 times a month you have to think about
that if you took all that energy and
like you harnessed it and you put it
into one thing you'll probably do like
an extra practice paper of work you know
you know what I mean right the energy of
that could be Consolidated to equal like
one practice paper worth of work so for
those small tasks just standardize it so
that you don't have to think about it
anymore you can conserve a little bit of
energy here and there so for example for
these videos I don't think about what to
wear I just wear a hoodie why because
I've standardized it because better to
think about my hair and I don't have to
worry about that before recording and
during recording it's a lot easier and
the biggest thing that most people don't
standardize is what time you sleep and
wake up that's the easiest one to
standardize so for me I just set a range
of what time I will sleep and wake up so
I sleep at around 10: to 11:00 I wake up
at around 6:00 to 7:00 for things like
wake up time what to wear what when to
eat just standardize them put them into
a list so that you know everything that
you need to do and one of my favorite
quotes here is standardized before you
optimize so once you've standardized it
once you've set a lot of things in stone
now you can optimize and optimization
comes from experimentation let me give
you an example so I've recorded videos
at my desk here I've recorded videos on
that chair over there I've recorded
videos outside I've recorded videos in
the morning I've recorded videos at
night I've recorded videos in afternoon
I've changed so many different factors
that I can look at them and be like yep
I produce the best videos when I work
8:30 to 9:30 specifically in in my room
that's the best conditions for me and
the only way that I could like
realistically find out that information
is if I experiment and try different
things so think about it I it took me 6
months of recording videos to find out
oh yeah this is the best spot and so
when I wake up I try finishing
everything by 9:30 because that is the
time that I work the best and so
basically the way I imagine it is when
you standardize you're setting things in
stone so Lally imagine like a
stone like marble right and to optimize
it's like carving away at the thing that
you've built to make like a sculpture
like a mecha Angelo whatever the
right when you optimize you're chipping
away at it changing different things to
make it a perfect like sculpture that's
optimized specifically for you not for
anyone else cuz this setting works best
for me but it might not work for you one
thing that I've written here is
Simplicity is usually key so if you keep
things simple if you're ever at a
Crossroads and you side on the side of
Simplicity you're generally correct so
don't try to fill up your timetable once
you have everything set up take things
away try to remove things don't think of
what I can add think about what I can
take away so that I can focus more on
the important stuff so for example my
morning routine my old one used to have
like 50 steps to it now it has three
wake up drink coffee
sunlight that's it that's my three steps
I wake up I get coffee and I drink the
coffee outside in the sun so that I get
some sunlight exposure and I go to work
cuz that is my
only non-negotiable and that's because
it work works best for me and I just
want to start work as quickly as
possible if for you you test out
different things and you put in
meditation and meditation works really
well then keep meditation in your
morning routine like honestly I just
want to get to work as quickly as
possible if I could wake up and just
start work with stinky morning breath I
would but that's not optimized for me if
it is for you like genuinely just do
that and I think after this step this is
when you start getting that fun feeling
in your routine instead of the rigid
restrictive feeling because it's
optimized for you it's specifically made
for you now and that's also why I'm not
going to give too many specifics on my
daily routine like all the little things
I do because it's optimized for me not
for you all right mind your own
business you pay me like $5 I might be
able to give it to you like all right so
here are the actionable steps for you
firstly what are your important task the
win the day tasks if you just did these
tasks and nothing else you would still
consider the day a win focus on these
tasks second for the other tasks in your
day so other than the win the day tasks
the rest standardize them try to make it
as as easy as possible to do them
without much thought time or energy and
then finally once you have these things
in stone number three change a couple
things change up the time switch some
things around and find the thing that
works best for you like the thing is at
the end of the day right when I'm off my
routine like a couple months ago I went
to like my mom's house and when I was
there I watched like five movies in a
row for the first time in a year five
movies in a row I I don't even watch
movies so I think that shows that when
I'm off my routine I'm just a normal
person that doges and just around
right but when I'm on my routine nothing
can take me out of it so uh yeah go
build your routine and take
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action on a side note though should I
still stay with like my routine on
WhatsApp or should I write my routine on
paper cuz the thing is right on WhatsApp
when I write my routine I can copy paste
on the previous day which makes it super
convenient and also when I walk around
outside I'm not bringing my notebook
with me but I always have my phone so I
can always check my routine there
but on paper you know when you finish a
task you always want to like cross it
out like this like some people they do
it like this for me when I finish the
task I like I want to like destroy that
it feels super satisfying right so
should I do it on paper for the
satisfying feel or should I do it on
WhatsApp cuz on WhatsApp you can't do
that you can't like cross out
the screen right just oh I'm
done I don't know though I think I'll
I'll stick with WhatsApp for now but you
give me your thoughts all
right all right give me a
kiss
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