A short motivational monologue by Codie Sanchez advocating a strict daily routine to reduce low-level decision fatigue and increase productivity. The speaker contrasts variable schedules with military-like consistency (e.g., fixed wake time and workout schedule) and claims that following routine and limiting exceptions creates greater freedom to focus on major decisions.
Want to know why a bunch of military men are so much more successful than, say, the everyman? It's because they've become so used to routine. My daily schedule used to vary wild and then I realized by watching my husband, he does the same thing every day, every chance he gets. It's called removing low level decision fatigue. And so instead of deciding, well, today I'm gonna work out at 12, and tomorrow I'm doing it at 7, he's like, every morning, 7:30, I go and work out no matter what. Removing those small decisions allows you to open up the big decisions. My daily sch schedule today now looks like I get up at 6 every single morning. I go work out at 7, 7:30. I hit work from 8:15, 8:30. The more I can keep my day simple, the easier it becomes. All the deviations in life. Lots of people say I don't want the routine to be the same every single day. But what you find out is that if you keep the exceptions, the exceptions. Living by the rule opens up massive freedom.
