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Well, for starters, could you tell us what a typical day looks like for you?

Well, I really love routine.

especially in my Monday to Fridays.

So a typical day for me would start with a good five to ten minutes of self-reflection.

Others would call it meditation, but it's just planning out my day in terms of thoughts and focus.

Thereafter, obviously a prayer would do.

I do work out.

I try to work out on average minimum three to at least five times a week.

But at least three days I need to put in some gym.

So before six I hit the gym at least for an hour.

I'm an early riser.

I like to plan my days very short.

So I don't do more than three meetings in a day.

I'd like to start my day very early.

I will send out anything I need to delegate or share instructions even as early as 4 or 5.

If I get into the office I like 30 minutes or an hour to myself just to get clarity and focus and then thereafter everything for me in terms of meetings is always execution or tracking or implementation.

Usually by 10 or 11 my serious day is done.

And so everything else that comes thereafter is more routine from the work side of it, whether I'm doing editorial pieces or going through the news or I'm doing a shoot and so on.

So that's a typical day.

I'm usually very strange.

I don't have lunch in the normal lunch time.

So I do have my breakfast around 10.

And then I have my lunch around 4 or 5.

And that's how I set it up.

I don't usually have dinner or supper.