Your nights determine your days. 7 things you should do every evening
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Your nights determine your
Your nights determine your days.
7 things you should do every evening:
Take the eggs you’ll
Take the eggs you’ll scramble out of the carton and put them in a bowl.
Cut the fruit you’ll eat and put in a container.
If it doesn’t need to be in the fridge, put it on the counter.
Make it an obvious choice in the morning.
4. Fill up a
4. Fill up a gallon water bottle
75% of Americans are “chronically dehydrated.”
That’s staggering.
But there’s an easy fix.
First, buy a gallon water bottle.
(Amazon –> “gallon water bottle”)
6. Start on one
6. Start on one 1 chore
What’s one chore you have to do tomorrow?
Work on bills. Clean the house. Whatever.
Spend 5 minutes on it the night before.
The goal isn’t to finish. Just to create momentum.
That little “win” drives consistency tomorrow.
Write down 1-2 priorities
Write down 1-2 priorities for tomorrow.
Then write down the *first* step for each.
Not 4 things and not 7 steps.
The goal isn’t to plan all your work.
It’s to automate just how you’ll to start.
Now put the list on your desk for the morning.
7. Eliminate 1 thingPull
7. Eliminate 1 thing
Pull up tomorrow’s calendar.
What’s 1 thing you can take off?
Meetings are a great place to start.
Honor commitments, but delete the non-essential.
Deletion creates a mental “sigh of relief.”
Bonus points if you can eliminate 2 things.
2. Prep the first
2. Prep the first food you’ll eat
A good day begins with high-quality fuel.
It doesn’t matter what time, just that it’s good.
Prepping the first thing you’ll eat the night before takes thinking out of it.
A few examples:
3. Clean your work
3. Clean your work area
Research shows clutter impacts us in many ways.
It affects our emotions, behaviors + relationships.
It increases stress and anxiety.
It even impacts how we sleep.
An underrated life hack:
Clean your desk each night.
Hope these improve your
Hope these improve your evening routine.
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1. Make a Quick
1. Make a Quick Start list
Planning your day the night before is good.
But what’s more important is how you start.
I make “Quick Start” lists.
How they work:
Now, fill it up
Now, fill it up before bed each night.
Then place it where you go start your morning.
The kitchen table. Your desk. A reading chair.
I’ve done this every morning for 6 months.
I’ve missed my daily “water goal” twice.
5. Schedule 1 hour
5. Schedule 1 hour for you
Time alone is incredibly high-ROI.
It’s good for our health.
It’s good for our creativity.
It’s good for keeping us sane.
But it’s easy to forget when life gets busy.
Don’t. Each night, schedule 1 hour for you.