{"id":13980,"date":"2026-08-01T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damiensoitout.com\/my-routine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:55:49","slug":"my-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damiensoitout.com\/en\/my-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"My Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you follow this blog or my social media, you already know I talk a lot about the importance of having a routine. A routine does not mean acting like a robot, having no surprises, or doing the exact same thing day after day. Having a routine is essential for anyone with long-term goals, because it lets you control how you manage your time and which tasks matter most (not urgency, but IMPORTANCE<\/a><\/span>). People who work with me regularly ask about my routine: What do you do from morning to night? What time do you wake up? I bet you barely sleep! and so on.<\/p>\n

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A routine does not work for everyone<\/h3>\n

My routine is not something that will work for everyone. Each person should find what works for them and keep refining their processes over time. I lived a long time without a well-established routine. For more than three years I was testing what served me and what did not.<\/p>\n

In the same way I analyze the professional and personal lives of my clients, one day I stopped and did a full introspection of all my experiments.<\/p>\n

The result was not great. I had gained weight, I could not breathe well after climbing stairs, and I never had a night that left me waking up completely fresh. The reason came down to two things:<\/p>\n

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  1. I was trying to copy my mentor\u2019s routine<\/span>:<\/strong> He has more experience and more years practicing his routine. It was like racing a Prius against a Tesla. I needed to take things at my own pace, not at the pace of someone whose routine had been refined for years.<\/li>\n
  2. I was lazy<\/strong><\/span>:<\/strong> Stopping certain foods, doing a set amount of exercise, reading a certain number of pages, and so on. I love numbers, but I did not like applying that kind of thinking to my personal life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first step<\/h3>\n

    The first step for me was realizing I had problems in certain areas of my life. Not necessarily things that would hurt me on their own, but combined with other habits they created a snowball that was very damaging to my well-being.<\/p>\n

    To see clearly what I needed to change, I downloaded a very simple app on my iPhone: Counter<\/span><\/span><\/a>. It is free and lets you create many categories. The idea is that every time you do something that falls into one of the categories you want to track, you tap once to add \u201c1.\u201d Then I had an Excel sheet where, at the end of each month, I entered the monthly total for each category in the right cell.<\/p>\n

    In my case the initial list was:<\/p>\n