 One of the most consistent trends that you see in ultra successful people is some variation on a morning or an evening routine. Now there are tons and tons of videos on people's really elaborate one hour of meditation morning routine, but no one ever says why you should actually do one and what the actual power and importance of it is. Now in this video I want to share what I think are the five most concrete reasons you should have a morning or an evening routine. What's up guys? I'm the author of the personal development book master the day. Now for morning people like me, even if you are a morning person, if you don't drink coffee then morning can be a really groggy rough time. So it's one of those times where you could use a good pep up, but if you can't drink coffee because it affects your stomach like me or you just don't like the jitters, you're looking typically for other options. Now a really cool product that I like is called cacao bliss. 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I mean Earl Nightingale, one of my favorite personal growth authors shares the story of a ship and he says that people are like ships. If a ship leaves a port let's say in New York and it wants to go to Japan as long as it knows where it wants to go no matter how blown off course it gets it can always course correct. But if it has no destination then no matter how fast it goes forward it can never reach where it wants to go. And for many of us we are that rudderless ship and the morning or the evening represent that drift because we get up we're unconscious we rush through the day we're reactive but what if instead you started your day deliberately with a mission and a purpose and that set the tone for your life. The second reason for me is that you can almost guarantee that every day is a focused day. You know I've talked to people all the time I've coached hundreds of people and some people wake up and they say I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today guess it's going to be a sad or grumpy or depressing day. But the whole point of a morning or an evening routine is you're consciously deciding how you want to set the intention for the day. The point is you may wake up and have a bad day you may be going through a breakup you may be going through death you may be going through losing all your friends or prolonged illness and you haven't felt well for a long time. In those times is where you learn what you're made of and that is where setting an intention for the day to do your best to do these things you said you would to improve your life is so critical. So whereas most days we get up and what do we do we put around run to the shower brush our teeth maybe you make your coffee read the paper and you've got to rush out the door compare that to a day that is deliberate methodical and makes you feel good guaranteed every time. The third thing is that you can make progress towards your MIT your most important task. So I highly recommend people use the morning to do anything that allows them to make progress towards whatever their main goal is right now maybe the goals fitness maybe it's spirituality and feeling well maybe it's dating and relationships. So just waking up 30 minutes earlier to dedicate some focused period of time towards your one main growth goal in your life is dramatic the effect it can have. If there is nothing else you do if all you do is you get up and for 30 minutes you're going to read that relationship book and consciously choose to act differently today. You're going to read the finance book choose to do your financial life differently today. You're going to go and do your walk or your yoga for 30 minutes or you're going to dedicate it to spirituality and mental health and feeling well. Just doing that dramatically will change your life just having the time to dedicate to your most important mission is life changing. The fourth thing is that an evening in the morning routine typically gives structure to what's typically a wasted part of the day. So we tend to squander morning time and evening time primarily because we're not held accountable by a boss or by some other aspect that's external authority in our life. So in the morning even if you wake up early maybe a lot of people spend it reading the news or watching TV or listening to NPR but instead if you use it to deliberately build a life you want and hey maybe that is watching the news or listening to the radio that's fine too but deliberately choosing to have structured time towards the life you want is also one of the most important things and maybe the evening is even a better example because we come home or tired, we have dinner and then many of us watch Netflix for three hours, four hours a day but just by consciously deciding the beginning block of the day, the ending block of the day I'm going to do something aligned with the kind of life that I want to live and the kind of person that I want to be. Now the last thing that I find really valuable is that you can begin your day calm versus rushed. I'm someone who is always rushing and I hate it and I'm working on it. The morning especially is such a rushed time where I don't have time to eat, I don't have time to relax, I can't just sit out the window and listen to a good audio book or self-growth program and the fact of waking up even just 20 minutes earlier gives you some leeway just to have calm, just to have a moment of peace before the chaos of the day begins and it's something that becomes really addictive. Once you begin doing that regularly it's almost impossible to go back to life the way it was where you wake up, shower and you're literally running out probably without even eating maybe just your coffee on the way. The difference of just 15-20 minutes of calm is completely, completely will set the tone for your day and really for your life. So those are my personal opinions as to why you should set a morning or an evening routine ideally both if you can afford to do that but really these are some simple rituals that can make a big difference in the quality of your life whether the life right now is terrible or your life is going amazing and before you guys go I've actually shot a video on this exact same topic right on over here.