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I did not have a routine from the very beginning, but I slowly built it up. In forming it, I think I was guided by a principle of maximizing efficiency: essentially, I would try and think which moments of the day I do not or cannot do anything else very productive/enjoyable in and then use as many as them as possible for building commercial awareness. Over time, as I was consciously looking for these 'dead moments' to use, I formed a bit of a routine:

• First thing in the morning: as I was brushing my teeth or making coffee, I would listen to the FT News Briefing. This worked great because it just gave me a short summary of the important items in the news and enabled me to decide what I specifically wanted to learn more about in the rest of the day.
• When I first checked my email: I would take 5-10 minutes to briefly skim newsletters I subscribed to (such as Little Law and Zip Law). This normally took quite a short time as the main topics had normally already been covered by the FT News Briefing.
• During a commute: I had a roughly 30-40 minute commute to campus every day, so either on the way there or on the way back home I made it a point to listen to a more in depth commercial law podcast: either Watson's Daily, Bloomberg News, BBC Business Matters, or some law firms' podcasts.
• In the weekend: After I became more advanced, I normally tried to take around 1 hour on Saturday or Sunday to either research one topic in a lot of depth by reading FT and other articles on it, or to complete some of TCLA's courses on practice areas.