A Routine is a sequence of actions regularly followed; a fixed program. A lot of us focus on the goal/goal setting but one of the easiest way to get your goals achieved is to have systems and daily routines. As Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act but a habit.” How you do anything is how you do everything, you get rewarded in public for what you repeatedly do in private.
In his book, Million Dollar Habits: 10 Simple Steps to Getting Everything You Want, Author and speaker Robert Ringer, writes about the power of daily routines and habits:
- Remember, life is nothing more than the sum total of many successful years;
- a successful year is nothing more than the sum total of many successful months;
- a successful month is nothing more than the sum total of many successful weeks;
- a successful week is nothing more than the sum total of many successful days.
- That’s why practicing successful habits day in and day out is the most certain way to win over the long term
Here are some great quotes on having daily routines:
- “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
- “Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.” – Twyla Tharp
- ” The less routine the more life.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
- “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” – John C. Maxwell
- “Your future is found in your daily routine. Successful people do daily what others do occasionally!” – Paula White
- “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” – William Blake
- “With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.” – Mandy Rose
- “A champion doesn’t become a champion in the ring, he’s merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.” – Joe Louis
- “The big things that come our way are … the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.” – William Feather
- “Creativity doesn’t just happen – you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity.” – Nita Leland
- “It is not labor that kills, but the small attritions of daily routine that wear us down.” – Roy Bedichek
- “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.” – W. H. Auden
- “Be careful that routine does not become a habit-forming barrier to creativity.” – Ian Semple
- “Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Don’t mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough.” – Tommy Amaker
- “Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Having a routine is great, but only if it serves your goals. If it’s not doing that, it’s called a rut.” — Josh LaJaunie
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jin Rohn
- “The Only Possible Way to Have it All is With Structure and the Discipline to Keep to it, To Make it a Routine.” – Margot Hattingh
- “Success is The Sum of Small Efforts, Repeated Day in and Day out” – Robert Collier
- “What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.” – Gretchen Rubin
- “Get on a daily routine… Working is a process, not a product. Success comes from the word, succeed: Latin: ‘to undergo.’ You must keep moving.” – Nicoletta Baumeister
- “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times” – Bruce Lee
- “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.”– Aristotle
- “Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.” – Ben Nicholas
- “Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.” – Shunryu Suzuki
- “When routine bites hard, And ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won’t grow…and we’re changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.” — Ian Curtis
- “This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.”— Thomas Keller
- “We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams–our ability to see the future. But here’s why we don’t reach into the future. We’re trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.”— Jim Rohn
- ” A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.” – Darren Hardy
All the best in your quest to get better. Don’t Settle: Liver with Passion.
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