6:00 AM

My wake up light alarm clock by Phillips starts to warm up, by 6:30 AM I am up and on the couch.

Over the past few weeks I’ve really worked on improving my mornings. I spend then next 30 or so minutes on the couch really waking up. I will watch tv, checkout Snapchat or YouTube.

7:15 AM

Time for a morning workout.

This is a fairly new regimen, I am back to working out as many days a week as possible. When this happens I slowly become obsessed with it. If its a run day, then I leave my house and head to the East River running path. If it’s a gym day I take the subway with my wife downtown she heads to work and I head to New York Health and Racquet Club.

8:00 AM

Shower, shave, get dressed, grab something to eat for breakfast and make lunch.

9:00 AM

Plug into a podcast and it’s time to head to Business Insider HQ.

9:30 AM

Arrive at BI, grab a water and sit down at my desk.

If I am the joke goalie, something we recently added to make stand up a little more fun, then I will spend a few minutes finding the best joke. More typically I spend some time now planning my day before the round of morning stand ups.

Recently, I’ve started writing out a plan for my days and it has super helpful. Day’s that I right out a plan are one hundred times more productive.

10:00 AM

Stand Ups, update the teams I am on with what I did yesterday and what I am hopefully doing today.

11:00 AM

Time to do some work.

I try to sprint myself from 11 to 1 PM and get as much done as possible. Some days are better then others.

1:00 PM Lunch Time

These days its a turkey sandwich, a seltzer, and some fruit at my desk.

1:30 PM

I spend the bulk of the afternoon getting through as much code as possible. Sometimes this is circumvented by a meeting or two, but thats usually out of my control.

5:00 PM

Normally I am plugged into a podcast and heading home. Right now though, I am taking a JavaScript class at General Assembly so Mondays and Wednesdays, I try to take a walk and have dinner before class at 6 PM.

6:00 PM

Home, relax a bit with the wife before we have dinner together. When either of us don’t have activities in the evening we have dinner together.

8:00 PM

Spend some time watching TV, catching up on freelance work, reading, or messing around on the internet.

10:00 PM or 11:00 PM

I am trying super hard to be in bed without my devices around this time each night.

It is surely a struggle but I know I want to wake up at 6 the next day and going to bed any later then this totally screws up the next day.