Do You Have An Effective Morning Routine (Or Are You Following Someone Else’s That’s Not Working For You)?

Want to see my (latest) morning routine?

Darren Stehle
3 min readMay 12, 2024

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Feeling calm and centred after my morning routine.

About six years ago, I wrote an irreverent article titled “Why You Should Wake Up At 3 AM To Be A Self-Righteous Asshole: 5 ways to be better than everyone else.”

I had been publishing on Medium for just over a year — on my since-closed publication, Think Queerly. Medium was in its heyday and EVERYONE was there. Many writers broke out and became very successful, especially in the world of personal development.

It was also when everybody was writing about the “best” morning routine that you should be doing, but aren’t.

One author — someone who became highly successful in his niche — wrote (in my opinion) an unforgiving and unsympathetic article about his morning routine. It was so completely over the top that I think he made it up solely to get views and likes — without care for the harm he might have caused.

But I digress! :-)

What’s Your Morning Routine?

How’s it working out for you?

I’ll be completely transparent here and admit that I haven’t had a structured morning routine for a long time. That is…

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Darren Stehle

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