I'm Max
I'm currently studying computer science in France, I also make my way in the chess world, I'm in love with the most intelligent and beautiful girl in the world (she tells me to write that I'm in full possession of my free will).
Sometimes, I play volleyball, preferably as the setter, I workout 3-4 times a week and I'm addicted to chocolate, pistachios and playing The Sims 4 to build the perfect house.
Of, and on my free time, I write on X about one of my passion : routines. I also have a free newsletter on that subject.
About Me
Summer 2021, my girlfriend at the time left me with a broken heart. Since that day, I committed to following one principle: focus on myself and get better. I started working out in my bedroom, reading Tony Robbins books and binge-watching motivational videos. This worked... only for a while.
Something was wrong. A couple months later, I had no more motivation to workout, no more books to read and felt like I was a weak person, destined to be weak and poor all my life. Great thoughts for a 16 years old boy, aren't they ?
In my teenage burnout, I decided to read another book : Miracle Morning, from Hal Elrod. I woke up 1 hour sooner than before to be in Silence, read Affirmations, Visualize my future and perfect self, Exercise, Read books and Scribe my thoughts. Days, weeks and even months passed and this routine was still present in my daily life. A "click" happened in my head when I realized.
I could create routine to organize my life. This general routine suitable for everyone worked for me, what about personalized ones ? Ones taking in account my energy, my goals, my constraints, etc. So I learned how to create routines. And good ones. Thanks to The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and Atomic Habits by James Clear, I understood the core principles of powerful and sustainable routines.
I applied them... but it didn't went as well as expected. In fact, I created 100+ routines but 90% of them were not effective. I had a biased vision of what a routine is. I thought a routine was just a set of habits you perform one after each other. I couldn't be more wrong...
A routine should have a clear and desired outcome, multiple powerful actions to reach that outcome and an unmissable trigger that remind you to do your routine.
Here are the three components I didn't had in my routines that caused me to miss them or decide not to do them.