My Morning Routine

Book review for My Morning Routine by Benjamin Spall. I rated it 4 stars After reading Daily Rituals, I figured I’d stay on the same theme and I also picked up My Morning Routine. I feel like it addressed basically all of the criticisms I had with Daily Rituals - namely the lack of diversity, and doing more of an analysis of the things in common with peoples’ routines, instead of just showing one routine after another. It also touches on what it’s like to be a parent with a morning routine (for both genders), even some examples of how Ramadan can affect your morning routine, and also how a partner can affect it (since it’s not like we tend to do these in isolation) so overall the information in it felt accessible to more people. As a brief summary of each of the chapters: How to wake up in the morning - ideally waking up before your alarm, getting in some sunshine, exercise, not using the snooze button and putting your alarm in another room if need be to make sure that you actually…