The Ruthless 5 Minute Morning Routine

Everywhere you look, influencers are showing off their two-hour morning rituals: pink Himalayan salt water with lemon, a hour of journaling, yoga flows, 5:00 AM workouts, cold plunges, and fifteen minutes of staring into the sun like a psycho.

Let's be honest. Most of us don't have time for that crap.

We're sleep deprived. We're already running late. The last thing we need is a checklist that feels like another full-time job before work. For the average person, those "perfect" morning routines are just a vanity project that make influencers look good on camera. They don't serve you. They overwhelm you.

It's Bullshit.

So let's be ruthless about this. Let's strip away the fluff and build a morning routine that actually works in the real world. No excuses. No wasted motion. Just three simple steps that take less than five minutes and sets your day up right.

The Ruthless 5 Minute Morning Routine

Not salt water. Not lemon detox magic. Just plain water. You wake up dehydrated. Your brain runs better when it's hydrated. Start here. Do this every morning for a week.

Step 1: Drink a Glass of Water

After a week of mustering the strength and willpower to drink a simple glass of water in the morning your ready for step 2.

Keep with the water, and add 10 pushups. If you can't do 10 pushups do 5, or 3, or 1. Just start somewhere. You can add more as you get stronger.

No fancy gym membership, no need to change clothes, no timer. Just hit the floor. It wakes your muscles up and gets your blood moving before your brain can talk you out of it.

Just Do It!

Step 2: Do 10 Pushups

Maybe the hardest first step, and the most ruthless of all.

Get out of bed when the alarm goes off. Hitting the snooze is just extending shitty sleep. Either wake up when the alarm goes off, or set your alarm for when you actually need to get out of bed.

Hitting the snooze over and over again does is interupt potential good sleep, and replace it with bad sleep.

20 minutes of snooze a day = Over 2 hours F'd up sleep each week.

Step 3: Stop Hitting the Snooze

Start with baby steps. When you feel like you want to add a few more push ups, add them.

The key is consistency. Don't start too strong. Don't add too much at once. Add a little bit at a time. That builds habit and routine.

You're not superman. Don't pretend you need to be.

Just get a little better every day.

That's your routine.