Routine Is The Way: 5 Thanksgiving Day Diet Tips: And Couch P&R

Routine is exactly equal to fitness.

I drove a different way to work each day.

I set my alarm to a different time each morning, altered lunch and dinner often, and changed my workout like I changed clothes.

If it was predictable, I hated it.

They say that Immanuel Kant, one of my favorite Philosophers, lived the same daily routine for over forty years. Talk about Groundhog Day. Today, I love that. But back then, when I despised everything that even faintly resembled routine, it would’ve made me sick.

The problem was purpose. I thought people with purpose had to be versatile, untethered, free from the rigors of daily habits. I thought the voice in my head commanding me to do this, do that, and do it at a specific time and a particular way each day was forcing me into a hole of ordinary.

I argued spontaneity was stronger than consistency, and that unpredictability lead to greatness.