Morning and Evening Routines — Power up & Cool Down

Is it going to be helpful for you to set up morning and evening routines?

The short answer is I believe pretty strongly that yes it is. The truth is that we all have some kind of morning and evening routines — that’s not in any doubt. The question is whether or not it is one we have actively decided upon or whether or not we have passively fallen into it.

The extreme examples

Maybe you have heard about Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. It’s reported that he gets up at 4am every day and spends at least 2 hours in his iron paradise — the gym. Or maybe you know that former Navy Seal Jocko Willink tweets a picture of his watch out around 4:30am every day and then tweets a picture of some weights or gym equipment and a sweat soaked concrete floor about an hour later.

And so, you think, morning routines are for crazy people. They mean getting up stupidly early. They mean hours and hours of different stuff, often involving massive amounts of physical exercise. Ultimately, it all sounds like something I want no part of.

The aim of your morning and evening routines

Yes, there are people who do this and who swear by it and that’s great. Actually, morning routines and evening routines have a very simple…