Commitment to my evening routine is still a bit new for me as I have always overestimated my energy level and planned stuff to be done in evenings but didn’t do. Good evening routines are the secret to easy mornings and I always encourage my podcast listeners and the early risers groups I lead to fix their bedtime and evening routine first before they commit to earlier morning wakeup time.

With my digital declutter month I managed to commit to my evening routine more and discovered how much my phone was getting in the way of enjoying it. My habit of blocking Whatsapp between 6pm and 9pm worked like magic in January and I plan to keep doing it daily as long as I don’t have outings with friends.

I will post here my ideal evening routine:

1. Be home at 5:30pm.
2. If I did not walk in the morning: walk outside with the kids or with an audiobook (for a minimum of 15 minutes).
3. Have my early dinner/snack with my favorite comedy show (10 minutes).
4. Play with kids or do homework or give the kids baths (60-90 minutes)
5. Prepare fruits and vegetables lunchboxes for all the family for next day with an audiobook while kids have their dinner (15 minutes)
6. Prepare my coffee machine for next day (5 minutes)
7. Kids in PJs, story time and bedtime (30 minutes)
8. Pick my outfit for next workday (10 minutes)
9. End the day with removing my makeup and a good shower (10 minutes).
10. Open and post on my social media which is going to be my new social media rule based on the insights I have had in my digital declutter month (30-60 minutes)
11. Spend time with hubby.
12. Write in my gratitude and daily stoic journals. (5 minutes)
13. Read until I sleep by 11pm max.

My mornings are superb when I only need to press the ON button of my coffee machine, take my lunchbox from the fridge and put-on my laid-out outfit for the day. I encourage you to prepare for your mornings like this. How we start and end our days matter so much. Take care of the ordinary parts of your day to make room for the extraordinary to happen.