You don’t need a morning routine. Here’s why.

Begin with the biggest, hardest, most overwhelming, and most annoying task of the day that falls under the umbrella of productive work. (For example: Even if doing your laundry or cleaning the dishes fits that description, it is not part of work). (Think something like creating a new course or program).

This task has to be high yield. Meaning: it has to lead to the most effective results in your work or business, not just any annoying or daunting task that is part of your work and has to be done, because answering every comment you get on social media might be crucial to attracting people and keeping them, but it does not make you have a business, it makes you have potential customers or clients that can then make your business profit hugely. If you don’t have something to sell, your business doesn’t exist. You can have millions of followers on social media all raving fans, but if you don’t have any products or services to sell them, you don’t have a business.

This is what it means for a task to be high yield.

As you can see, this is not about the task being important or not. Because responding to every single comment you ever get on all social media platforms is of utmost importance. According to Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits, it falls under quadrant 2 of the important tasks. But it is not at the moment the single most task or type of task that will bring major positive difference in your life and solve your current problems that you’re going through with your life, work, or business. In short: it’s not why you’re stuck in progress at the moment when it comes to issues with your happiness or success. People need money. They also need fulfillment. Happiness is not a luxury anymore. You can’t afford to be miserable. So if creating that new course that is on par with Vanessa Lau’s Bossgram Academy, or any of Sunny Lenarduzzi’s kick ass courses, is going drive the most results in your life right now, then this task definitely should take precedence over the rest of the important other stuff that will always be required of you to take care of at some point. This is a problem because you sit down, and come up with a ton of ideas that you’re supposed to do today, this week, or this month, all important stuff. None of the above drives results in your life because they have nothing to do with why you’re stuck in life or in your business financially at the moment.

Aside from this: you can respond to comments in your down time, when you’re bored, or when you’re tired. But you can’t work on a heavy project 5 minutes before your bedtime.

Energy matters. It’s not just motivation you’re lacking. That’s why it’s recommended to do the high yield task first thing in the morning or immediately after waking up, because this is when you’re more likely to have enough energy to navigate through the heavy and overwhelming task.

It’s weird to do fun stuff immediately after you wake up because how on earth you’re supposed to reward yourself after the accomplishment if you’ve had enough fun and entertainment for an entire week already before you do anything serious today.

So hardest, most effective, most high yield task of the day that drives the most results in your life or work first, even if you don’t feel like it. Even if you have a ton of other important stuff to do every day or that day as well.

This is why morning routines are not recommended, because they take place at the time when your energy is still at its peak.