I get a strange look from people if they’ve never heard the term, but a “daily ritual” is just a set of activities that you purposefully do every day.
If you subscribe to the idea that your life is, at least partially, the sum of what you do every day, a good daily ritual is really sexy. So far here’s mine in 2014:
1. Take some protein. It’s non-whey and sure as hell not soy. It’s this stuff.
2. Do a pull-up/push-up pyramid. Exercise shortly after waking starts your metabolism and, well, wakes you up.
For this pyramid, I do 2 push-ups for each pull-up. So you start with 1 pull-up then immediately do 2 push-ups, then 2 pull-ups followed by 4 push-ups, etc. Then you come back down to 1 pull-up.
The entire sequence:
1 pull-up – 2 push-ups
2 pull-ups – 4 push-ups
3 pull-ups – 6 push-ups
4 pull-ups – 8 push-ups
3 pull-ups – 6 push-ups
2 pull-ups – 4 push-ups
1 pull-up – 2 push-ups
3. Learn Spanish. I do 1 course in Duolingo on my iPhone each day.
4. Write. Writing really forces you to think and that anchors you to the present. It’s hard to focus on the past or the future when you’re in the act of mentally and physically constructing a sentence.
That’s it. Coming soon: reading, yoga, meditating, programming and probably a TED talk or two.
Relevant, good:
http://austinkleon.com/2013/12/29/something-small-every-day/