Morning routines, productivity, wellness habits, dopamine, sunlight, gratitude, affirmations — do viral morning routines actually work?

This week I tested 3 viral morning routines from an English woman, an American woman, and an Australian woman to see whether any of them could make me feel more energised, productive, and less like I’m running on fumes.

The problem?

I’m doing this with:

• a toddler who wakes up at 4:30am
• broken sleep
• a massive family bed
• and a deep resistance to bouncing on a Peppa Pig trampoline with coconut oil in my mouth

So this is a very scientific experiment.

• my current chaos-morning routine
• Mel Robbins-style 5-4-3-2-1 habits
• oil pulling, electrolytes and gratitude
• Chinese lymphatic movements
• making the bed like a functional adult
• whether morning routines are modern madness… or actually quite anthropological

0:00 Intro – today’s experiment

1:00 My current morning reality

7:00 The American morning routine

10:30 The British morning routine

17:30 The Australian “hot girl” morning routine

25:00 Have We Lost the Plot? Morning routines through an anthropology lens

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I’ll report back on which bits of these morning routines actually survived contact with real life.

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