James Clear: Daily Routine

With no alarm, no breakfast, and no distractions, Atomic Habits author James Clear starts each day with quiet focus and a clear plan.

When Atomic Habits author, James Clear, discovered that you only had 25,000 mornings as an adult, and realised he had wasted a lot of them, he was determined to create a routine to get the most out of each day.

25,000 times you get to open your eyes, face the day, and decide what to do next. I don’t know about you, but I’ve let a lot of those mornings slip by.

After waking up in the morning with no alarm (unless he needs to catch a flight or has an appointment), Clear takes a shower, drinks a glass of water, and then “write down three things I’m grateful for, read twenty pages of a book, then get into whatever my work is for the day,” Clear told My Morning Routine in 2014.