Unlocking productivity through mimicking others
Morning rituals are seen as transformative and we can’t help but want to copy what high-performing individuals do. Fasting, oil pulling, yoga before breakfast… Everyone’s morning seems to be unique — like their own little secret.
Maybe if we replicate the steps of people we admire, we can replicate their success? Wrong.
Productivity, I’ve learned, is a choice. An internal desire to want to do something, so you do.
Waking up at 5 am isn’t going to get you the tens of millions of dollars that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has, but it may give you more time to be productive.
The choice of how you spend that extra time is yours. Some people squander it, some people don’t.
These rituals by themselves hold no power, but instead, serve as anchors towards a much higher goal. It insists on harsher prioritisation of tasks because your ritual demands you’re in a certain place at a certain time.
This means morning rituals themselves don’t hold any productive energy, but the opportunity they create is for less procrastination.