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Do you geek out on morning routines? One of the best parts of the latest epic Jeff Bezos x @lexfridman podcast is Bezos describing his insanely productive morning routine. Puttering. Coffee. Gym. Work. 1. Get up early naturally 2. Putter (slowly move around, read phone, read newspapers, let the mind wander, not as productive as you'd think...) 3. Chat with Laura and first cup of coffee 4. Gym 5. Work Lex: What’s your source of motivation in those moments when you don’t feel like working out? Bezos: I exercise most days and most days it’s not that hard for me. Some days it’s really hard and I do it anyway. I don’t want to. It’s painful, and I’m like, “Why am I here?” and I don’t want to do anything. Why am I here at the gym? Why don’t I do something else? It’s not always easy. My source of motivation is I know that I’ll feel better later if I do it. The real source of motivation is I can tell the days when I skip the gym I’m not quite as alert. I don’t feel as good. And then there are harder motivations—longer term. You want to be healthy as you age. You know you want health span. You want to be healthy and moving around when you’re 80 years old. That kind of motivation so far in the future, it can be very hard to work in this second. So thinking about the fact that I’ll be better in about four hours if I do it now. That I’ll have more energy for the rest of my day and so on is what motivates me. Lex: What’s your exercise routine? How much do you curl? Bezos: I do about half an hour of cardio and about 45 minutes of resistance training of some kind, mostly weights. I do a pulling day, a pushing day, and a leg day. Takeaway: Jeff Bezos has a system that works for him. There are days when he doesn’t want to do it, but he uses a combination of “near-term” motivation (how he’ll feel) and “long-term” motivation (the healthspan he wants in the future) to spur action. As @JamesClear says: You don’t rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems. Bezos has a system that works for him; what’s your morning routine system? Let me know in the comments (sharing mine below)