Is this meant to be satire or something? This was seriously put into his schedule as a 5 minute task?
So having it on a schedule isn't a bad thing. I think it's in a previous post that Ryan was talking about that as a mini-meditation. Many people meditate at specific times, he just does it at a smaller scale, and I'm sure it's still better than nothing.
When it's just you and your thoughts, 5 minutes can be a long time. I don't think it would be a good idea to stretch this activity out longer for the sole reason of showing how important it is.
Imagine telling a designer:
"From the hours of 12:00pm to 3:00pm, be creative."
Life doesn't work like that, and if you're scheduling your life down to individual minutes, then I can't imagine how you're also managing to be creative.
Maybe he should have just said, "take a quiet moment before starting my day, because it helps keep me relaxed/whatever" or something to that effect.