A successful powerful routine

[Elton]

Years after Leo's Video on powerful routines I have been able to incorporate it in my life without much effort. So far I am on a11 day streak.

I'm really fearful of sabotaging this routine at the same time I'm also sceptible about the results it may bring.

My routine consists of the following: (struggling with getting a fixed time table around all this but I guess that's the next step.)

Kriya yoga 20 min

Meditation 20 min 

Research + Writting (I want to write a book as my Life purpose) 30 min

Journalling (gratitude or any reflection or insights hardly few minutes)

Affirmations (recorded and a voice telling that you are ...) 15 min 

Subliminals or hypnosis 30 min or 90 min 

Exercise (3-4 days a week 15 to 20 min)

Clean diet ( no white flour, no sugar, no processed foods)

Kegels (5 min)

7000 steps

Investing in etfs when they are in red (5 min)

What are your thoughts about doing all this along with my 9-5 job.

Would you like to give me some tips to sustain this, if I can do this for 1 year I would be soo Happy.

I would be the happiest to incorporate this for ten years straight.

(It didn't work in the last 10 years but now I'm operating out of more experience)

How can I realise and actualize this in the long term ? 

I am also having doubts, what if I put in all this and nothing happens. The main goal is to increase focus, train the subconscious, break free from wage slavery, have a healthy mind and body.

Meditation and spiritual work like letting go of judgements, self acceptance, kriya yoga, learning stuff didn't make me successful if I would just focus on my work instead I would have earned much more than I am today like my other ex colleagues present colleagues and friends but I guess focus and consistency is the main thing required which was probably missing in my life.

My strategy now is to focus for these 3 hours.

This 20 percent which will give me 80 percent results.

These are my scale and chord practice.

And the rest of my life will be the musical concert.

I need your support and guidance friends.

Tips to sustainability 

Motivation telling me that my vision is correct.

I need you to tell me that my strategy will work and I'll achieve what I want.

 

 

Edited January 11 by Elton

[Yimpa]

On 1/11/2026 at 1:01 PM, Elton said:

I am also having doubts, what if I put in all this and nothing happens.

Just do it!

[Elton]

@Yimpa :-) thanks for the inspiring words.

So far still sticking to it 

[Yimpa]

21 minutes ago, Elton said:

So far still sticking to it 

[Ramasta9]

Good, just remember to drop it all one day. 

[Joseph Maynor]

3 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

Good, just remember to drop it all one day. 

Some people need more routine after they have dropped it too, ironically.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

You can do it. For sure. 

I do the above, maybe more exercise and I have to care for my grandmother (97) and run a construction business also. 

If I can - YOU can 🙏

Do it enough that it becomes a habit. Repeat repeat repeat until you beat it into your nervous system and becomes a habit. A reflex. You won't even think. You will wake up and engage. 

Practice makes perfect. That's it ! 

One thing I find powerful; always chain tasks. Never say 'i will do this' it is always 'i will do this, then this'. Slowly chain more and more. Twos go well initially so you aren't overwhelmed. 

 

[Jacob Morres]

honestly i dont see how you would break wage slavery from this. the only thing i see work related is investing in ETFs and 30 mins of writing a book but that has a super low ceiling unless you invest a lot. it seems good for health but breaking wage slavery will come from networking + work related tasks (business, projects, certs, degrees, networking) 

you need to be results focused, not routine focused 

id minimize your routine to 20% of this and just be all in on results instead. as in, what business do you want in 6 months and what results do you want and break that down into 1 month chunks. 

sorry, im not coddling you or being nice. for breaking wage slavery particularly, that is no joke it will take high intensity, highly intentionally work for years. like 5000 hours 

but if that is not your highest priority than ignore my advice

 

> the main goal is to increase focus, train the subconscious, break free from wage slavery, have a healthy mind and body.

developing focus will happen naturally and as a byproduct by focusing on whatever task is on hand. training the subconscious i dont think you need more than 10-15 mins a day. healthy mind and body, id keep those habits 

Edited February 5 by Jacob Morres

[Ramasta9]

On 2/5/2026 at 5:27 AM, Joseph Maynor said:

Some people need more routine after they have dropped it too, ironically.

The ebb and flow of life  Balance 

[ZenSwift]

For me, the advice that I would give myself around habits is make sure you have strong intent behind every habit as to why you're doing it, otherwise you won't have that buy-in to do it long-term. Oftentimes, having very clearly set goals to help a lot. And then being willing to revisit them every 90 days or so to adjust. I find myself adjusting habits all the time, as I figure out more and more what is actually effective and important for me.

Basically make sure what you are committing to makes complete sense so you're not questioning after the third week. Returning to Vision again and again, and chunking down your goals again and again is what will help a lot. Constantly visioning out what your next step is and connecting that to all the steps you need to get to where you want to go.

 

 

Most importantly though, is to learn how to get back on the horse again and again. Especially maintaining habits in unpredictable lifestyles and in unpredictable environments. I have way too many factors of unpredictable environments that mess my habits up all the time. 

[bazera]

@Elton

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What are your thoughts about doing all this along with my 9-5 job.

Yeah man it's pretty doable. I'm also in the same boat, trying to integrate some of the habits, here's what I've found:

Prioritize sleep and resting, as much as you can, at least 7 hours and try to sleep on consistent times every day. That will make doing your routines easier, because it's a routine, right? So it should be easily repeatable, so if you one day wake up at 7am and second day at 2pm, it won't go well.

Reduce or entirely remove dopamine-depliting habits (porn, doom-scrolling, etc). That will mess everything up. You probably already did that, but just a reminder. 

Next one is basic time management, as @Natasha Tori Maru adviced, one way is chained tasks, you can try to do that. Also, in general be more mindful of how many minutes do you waste every day.

I did one experiment for a week, when I woke up I turned on stopwatch and I was pausing it when I wasn't wasting my time (work, practices, exercise, self-care routines, intentional rest periods, cooking, etc) and in the end I had a number of hours I purely wasted on scrolling, watching shit on yt, gossiping, etc. it was like 4-5 hours, I was shocked. I just worked on reducing that to 1-2 hours mostly, or sometimes less then that. 

Just figure out and experiment with some ways on making most of your hours spent on a valuable things for you. 

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I need you to tell me that my strategy will work and I'll achieve what I want.

This is not a correct mindset. Don't expect others to validate the plans, just do it enough times that you see if it works or not. If not, adjust accordingly and try again and again until something sticks.

Good luck.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Another tip I have: you want to be taking action with your future self in mind.

This might be something as simple as preparing the coffee pot  that night. So when you get up - turn it on and done. Lay out your clothes for the next day, so morning you can move through your routine with the lowest barrier to entry to begin and execute the task. Set all clocks 5 minutes fast. Plan ahead so when the time arrives to execute the routine you can be mindful and calm. This 'future me' is the 'pre-routine'.

If you take action in the now to benefit the future you, it also enables you to look back on the past with gratitude. This will increase your overall enjoyment of the present and will stop remuneration over the past (regrets). The more you prepare for future you, the more you will be totally present, calm and confident in the moment. Again dovetails into enjoyment and gratitude for your own actions. Your effectiveness will increase because you aren't burdened by your own mind scrambling to catch up or remember (or beat yourself up for not doing xxx).

Very very powerful technique. I employ this through the weekdays so I can deal with the stress and pressure of working in construction, as well as eating well, daily exercise, daily meditation, walking the dog etc. 

Most of my tasks are just setting up for future Tash 🙂

Edited 13 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[Natasha Tori Maru]

I've noticed that all the successful people I have worked with have 3 things: observation, communication & self mastery.

[bazera]

@Natasha Tori Maru That works great for me as well. It also strenghtens the intention of execution, like if I clean my meditation space or working area couple hours before or before I get to sleep, the next day I'm more likely to execute on my plan because I already invested some time with that cleanup, so, it's a bit easier 😂 

What I'd add is, one often overlooked things is building an infrastructure for different projects that we're working on. Couple examples from my life:

- When I wanted to get up early in the morning, I'd sometimes put my phone with alarm in different room, and it worked, but sometimes I forgot to do it or sleep with my phone while watching something, and I brought an alarm clock on amazon which I have in a different room from where I sleep, and it just sits there, every day I have to wake up and physically get up and move my body to turn it off.

- I was too lazy to clean up dishes in the past, sometimes I would leave them ovenight which created a mess physically and also mentally, and because of that I was ordering food more and more. Then I invested in dishwasher and since then it has been much easier to keep the kitchen orginized and as a result, cook healthier and follow a proper diet. Also, shit like buying a sharp knives and comfortable utensils and stuff like that, to reduce friction in your mind when it comes to healthy eating.

- I'm trying to lose weight, and I was being lazy in winter to go out and put in daily steps and cardio, sometimes I kept missing gym. Then I brough a home portable treadmill and couple dumbbells and I just do all the exercise at home, again, reduced friction.

There are many other examples, but you get the point. You have to be creative. 

It's all about removing or at least reducing friction to whatever you try to do.

note: I'm not saying that you need to buy all this shit to keep your routines, just figure out whatever frictions you have in your case, and get creative on reducing them.

Oh and don't forget that you can fall in the trap of endless optimization of environment, infrustructure, routines, etc. At the end of the day it comes down to just repetition.

Leo has an old video on this, I think it's called Building Infrustructure for Success, check it out @Elton

 

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@bazera love the friction principle - it is the same way I look at it in different words 'lowering the barrier for entry'. Making doing the thing as easy as possible because my slinky mind will try anything to get out of it while building the habit. Once the habit is built through repetition, discipline isn't as needed because everything becomes reflexive.

I think this is the video you reference:

https://youtu.be/TwuutU9yUGE?si=l6UahE6cUXErVJ1G

Edited 12 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[bazera]

6 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I think this is the video you reference:

https://youtu.be/TwuutU9yUGE?si=l6UahE6cUXErVJ1G

Yup that's the one. 

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'lowering the barrier for entry'.

Yeah, keeping routines are hard enough, and when you have couple dragons to slay and some obstacles to go through in order to eat clean or exercise, it becomes harder. Of course it's not impossible, but reducing the friction to lower the barrier for entry just makes life easier.

As another example, when I was living with my family, it was much harder to eat clean because there was always some junky snacks at home, and I couldn't just throw them away cause others would buy them again, and it was constant friction and struggle to not eat them.

Now I live alone and I fully control what I keep in my fridge, so, that's what I mean. 

Also, as another example, when I lived with my family it was wierd to meditate because they were fundamental christians and it was very unsusual, and I had to come up with excuses like "it's just exercise to improve focus" and stuff like that. Again, just more friction to just do daily meditation. Now I don't have that and it's so much easier without thinking on all that. 

A huge part of success is building a proper lifestyle slowly and methodically. It took me literally years to build some of the infrustructure that I know I needed. 

Just imagine trying to build all this stuff in Iraq or in some war-torn country. Not impossible, but much harder. Removing friction in that case would be to somehow escape the environment.

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Making doing the thing as easy as possible because my slinky mind will try anything to get out of it while building the habit.

oh yeah 😆 sometimes I am amazed how clever some of the excuses I come up with are. I try to not leave room for excuses with pre-planned action (as you do with your planning ahead) to reduce reasons for my mind to come up with new clever excuses.

Edited 6 hours ago by bazera

[Yimpa]

42 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I've noticed that all the successful people I have worked with have 3 things: observation, communication & self mastery.

The Holy Trinity of Self-Love ₊✩‧₊˚౨ৎ˚₊✩‧₊