My Morning Routine

My Morning Routine, by Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander — founders of the website mymorningroutine.com — distills interviews with sixty-four accomplished people, including Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Soni, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and General Stanley McChrystal, into patterns and practical advice about how successful people structure the start of their day. Rather than prescribing one ideal routine, the book treats the interviews as raw material for identifying common elements — protecting quiet time before the day's demands begin, building in movement or exercise, and using the morning to set intentions rather than reacting to email and notifications — while acknowledging that effective routines look different for different people, schedules, and personalities. Its underlying argument is that the choices made in the first hour of the day disproportionately shape everything that follows, so small, deliberate morning habits compound into outsized effects on focus, mood, and follow-through. It's aimed at readers looking for a menu of real-world examples to adapt into their own routine rather than a single rigid formula to follow.