F**k Routine

Charlie E Hyde
3 min readFeb 10, 2022

I recently tried a 5am for 5 days routine and it confirmed something I’ve secretly known all along: I hate routine. This post is an affirmation not a lecture. I’m not going to try and convince you routine is bad, instead I want to reassure you that if you hate routine that’s ok.

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Photo by Bianca Berg on Unsplash

People say the secret to success is having a good morning routine and, for the last 28 years, I believed them. I tried getting up earlier, later, in the middle —…

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Charlie E Hyde

Life hacks from Burnout recovery. Self-improvement and productivity nerd. Beating toxic productivity one post at a time