Exceptional routines are transformative.  They set you up for mastery.  Creating them is an art you can learn and I am going to teach it to you.  

Without reliable routines, your efforts tend to be random; haphazard results are probable and inefficiencies, certain.  Routines set you up for success by insuring that you complete essential tasks efficiently, missing none.

What follows are best practices for constructing maximum-efficiency routines that arrange activities into meaningful, elegant, efficient sequences.  If you don’t have routines, create them now. They immediately accelerate your achievement by ensuring that you make the most of your time. 

Carefully observe what you do now.  Notice the particular sequences you currently follow, and evaluate them.  Do your existing routines insure that you reliably cover everything you need to accomplish?

1. Decide what needs changing. Look for bottlenecks in your flow.  Is the time you rise conducive to your goals?  When are you getting crunched for time and why?  Where do you meander off track and why?  What would support you better?  Decide what to alter.
2. Create new routines. For maximum impact, begin by developing routines for starting and closing out your day.  Experiment by adding and deleting.  For example, you might add some time spent in silence after you review goals.  You might delete checking your Facebook home page.  Your mission is to find out what supports activities that unmistakably enhance and move you forward. 
3. Test out how they work.  You may quickly discover certain changes that make a distinct difference.  On the other hand you are as likely to discover imagined effective are not borne out in practice. 
4. Cautions.  Evaluate suggestions with care before adopting what others say may be good for you.  You are typically less efficient following routines others invent unless their advantages are obvious.  On the other hand, good suggestions can turn out to be brilliant when given a little time and some tweaking.  Do not be discouraged, though, that you feel awkward on  a new routine.  That's what it’s like to start new ones.  It is important to distinguish between unfamiliarity and an ineffective sequence.  Consider working with a new routine for a week before deciding to alter it unless the needed change is simple and obvious. Adopting an entirely new activity, like yoga first thing in the morning, may make you feel less efficient in the short run.  Merely reordering existing activities typically should not. 
5. Evaluate outcomes.  An exceptional routine will lend a sense of your having a much better footing and of setting you up for maximum efficiency and best results.   That part is not guesswork.  Getting to the best routine is a matter of attention, best guesses and tinkering—trial, error, trial, some success, trial, better yet, and so on.  
6. Repeat cycle, perfect routines.  Even apparently spontaneous works of art are the outcomes of long-term preparation.  Master one aspect and it becomes easier to create others.  Repeat the observing-adding- deleting cycle.  Keep editing, then take it one step further still.