Many people wake early yet experience mornings as the start of a recurring mismatch between desired activities and actual daily tasks. People aspire to creative, leisurely, and relational pursuits but instead spend time on emailing, scrolling, and bureaucratic waits. A morning routine is offered as a quick fix promising that specific healthy rituals will produce sustained prosperity and contentment. These rituals have grown into extreme, performative regimens promoted by influencers. The persistence of morning-routine culture reflects a deeper, increasingly urgent question about how to shape a life aligned with chosen values amid accelerating modern life.
I drink water. I get outside to walk the dog. But I hate mornings, because they are the start to a recurring problem. It's the same problem confronted by much of humanity at this particular moment in history. Which is, the things I want to spend my day doing (expanding the limits of human creativity, making memories with loved ones, lollygagging on the beach) do not match up with the things I actually spend my day doing (emailing, scrolling, waiting on hold for customer service).
Luckily, you can spend about two seconds on the internet and find the answer flung at you: a morning routine. Its promise is that by starting the day with a sequence of healthy behaviors, you will ensure your prosperity and contentment into the afternoon and evening, and from there into the rest of your life until you die. These days, morning routines have evolved into strange, masochistic regimens, as with influencer Ashton Hall's viral video earlier this year that captivated the collective internet
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