"Every single choice you make after dinner is either setting you up for a great morning or sabotaging tomorrow before it begins. That late-night binge doesn't just keep you up. It's changing your entire sleep-wake cycle. That work email you answered at 10 p.m. stays on your mind and makes you think about all the many responses you're expecting."
"Doing work or dealing with issues right before bed keeps your brain thinking, figuring out options. And the worst part is that you pick it all up again when you wake up. You're not just losing sleep. You're training your brain to wake up in stress mode."
"The quality of your evening routine determines the success of your morning habits. Every time you miss out on a better evening ritual, your morning routine will suffer. Your willpower will be lower."
Morning routines fail when evening habits remain unaddressed. Every choice after dinner either enables or undermines the next morning's success. Late-night activities like binge-watching, answering work emails, or addressing issues keep the brain active and stressed, disrupting sleep cycles and causing you to wake in stress mode rather than readiness. Decision fatigue compounds this problem—by day's end, thousands of decisions have depleted mental energy, leaving less willpower for morning routines. The quality of evening rituals directly determines morning habit success. Neglecting better evening practices guarantees morning routine failure and reduced willpower for productive activities.
Read at Fast Company
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