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If you’re familiar with my work, you know I’m a tremendous proponent of routine.

Morning routines help you start your day with purpose.

Evening routines help you end your day in peace.

Workout routines help you maintain a healthy relationship with your body.

The list goes on and on and on.

And I know it may sound counterintuitive, routines helping with creativity? But aren’t they just boring and repetitive? Isn’t that the last thing you can do to help your creativity?

I know it sounds backwards, but it’s exactly what you need.

Because when you perform the same tasks at the same time, in the same place, you put your mind at ease. You train your brain to focus. You allow your mind to relax a little bit.

We may have this image in our heads of an eccentric creative genius, the scatter-brained inventor, the artist who works at bizarre hours. But these stereotypes can be misleading.

You can’t be creative if you’re always worried that you’re forgetting something. You can’t be creative if you don’t take care of the simple things in your life. As strange as it sounds, the most brilliant insights often come at the most mundane moments.

True leadership starts from within. When your mind is cluttered with endless to-do lists, you lose the clarity needed to lead a life with purpose.

Delegation isn’t about doing less — it’s about creating space for what truly matters. By handing off tasks that drain your energy, you become more present, more intentional, and more aligned with your vision. 

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We all do so much to support the lives of others. Our partners, our families, our coworkers. And we even have routines around them. But how are you showing up for yourself? What are your routines?

Try This: Take out a notebook, or a new note on your device and list all the routines you have in your life. What are the little things you do each and every day? At the same place? At the same time?

If the answer is that you don’t have that many daily routines, I want you to think about: What are the things you wish you had a little bit more structure around?

Here’s something to think about for your daily routine. In the coming weeks, I’ll be shifting from a weekly to a daily cadence. That way you can build a piece of wisdom into one of your daily rituals. A pause from the chaos you can’t control to think about the things you can. My hope is that I can help you find presence and wisdom, each and every day.

Is there any arena where presence and wisdom are more essential than the arena of parenting? On this week’s podcast, I had an eye-opening conversation with Dr. Becky Kennedy about the keys to raising emotionally healthy children. Dr. Becky is a clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and founder of the global parenting and mental health platform Good Inside. She has developed a vision for compassionate parenting that strikes the elusive balance between strong parental leadership and children who feel seen, heard, and autonomous. 

In our talk, Dr. Becky describes how constantly optimizing for our kids’ happiness can actually lead to anxiety down the road. She describes how confronting struggle and repairing conflict are deeply powerful ways for both parents and children to feel better understood, better supported, and more authentically themselves. My conversation with Dr. Becky sketches out a beautiful blueprint for modern parenting, rooted in the idea of a safe, honest emotional exchange between parents and their kids, with an emphasis on working through the hard stuff together in order to strengthen and deepen connection. 

Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

I challenge you to codify your routines. Reply to this email right now and tell me a routine you’re going to implement or improve upon starting tomorrow. Let’s go!

Last week, I challenged you to commit to finding something new in a relationship that mattered to you. Your responses were so inspiring.

Reader Shanjida said:

Shanjida, this is so well stated. Simply changing our viewpoint on the people and things we see each day illuminates the variety and the newness that really is hidden everywhere.

Reader Celeste wrote:

Celeste, this is so beautiful. It takes strength to reach out and make contact like you’re doing with your co-worker. You show us how a conscious shift in our perspective can open up a world of possibilities to be generous, to be kind, and to touch another life in a positive way.

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