 So people seem to be really interested in the idea of morning success rituals or morning routines But in this video, I want to share a little bit about what I do as part of my evening ritual So to me the evening ritual is a mirror of the morning ritual in the sense that They're both focusing you on what you want and they're programming your subconscious to be aligned with your goals Now the only thing absent really is like exercise or working out in the morning But in this video, I want to share what I do as part of my pretty regular evening routine What's up guys Alex Hein here author of the book master of the day So my evening routine is super simple three things no hour-long ritual All right The first thing is that I do a little bit of winding down like a meditation or Qigong The second thing is that I again review my goals or the quote God consciousness Concepts that I talked about and then the third thing is that I focus on reading a personal development book So you could literally do the same thing for your morning routine, but let's break down each one of those now so for me with the seated meditation the whole point is to accelerate the process of letting the body wind down and it took me a Lot of years of working 70-hour weeks to realize something obvious Which is that the body is not a machine. You don't just work and then 10 minutes later expect to sleep That's not how the body works. It's not just a button We aren't machines and so what I've had to do is I start off with anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes of seated meditation So I get this little cushion that I have under my bed I slap it out here in the living room and then I just sit down and all I do is I focus on the sensation of the breath Going in out of my nostrils I set a timer and then based on how much time I have that night anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes But what I've personally noticed is that 20 minutes is that threshold where I really start to notice a difference in my heart Rate and my breathing from there I go through my daily goals my trajectory review the God consciousness stuff whatever you want to call it But it's all about all the things I'm trying to create in my life, and I'm a big believer in there's a whole book written on Reviewing your goals as many times possible per day, and I think the book is called it works So it's this tiny little book that you can find on Amazon called it works The whole premise is think about what you want all day Look at a piece of paper of what you want all day and it'll happen and I believe that I've seen it to Be true in my own life So I just review that in that little book that I have one of the things I'm trying to create in my life Some of those are 10-year goals. Some of them are three month goals I want to think about them all every single day, especially before bed because I've noticed that bed time Especially dreams. It's one of those times where a lot of subconscious fears come up and so if I'm watching things or thinking about things that Arouse the emotion fear I'll dream about those things and I'll feel it when I wake up But if I'm thinking about all the things that are exciting me I dream about that too and I wake up with ideas. So it's really powerful time I noticed a prime in the mind. So what I do is I just go back to that sheet I'm reviewing all the things I want to create. I visualize them as if they've already occurred I feel what the experience feels like having already done it And then if any ideas come to mind, I jot them down there The third part of this ritual here is reading until I feel tired enough to go to bed So I've had kind of on and off sleep issues the last few years And I've noticed during the best sleep years of my life 11 o'clock I would start reading the second I felt like I couldn't read that line Or I kept repeating that line. That's when I was tired enough and then I'd fall asleep So for me reading is how I allow the onset of sleep and I know when I'm sleeping enough Because otherwise from playing a video game or I'm on the computer that cue can be really lessened And I tend to again focus on personal development Some people are all about fiction books before bed, but I found that I'm not excited to go to bed Unless there's a book I really want to read. So I always read books to interest me And always about growth or personal development because again, I want to prime my mind before bed with all the things I want to improve about my life And that's going to get those gears going and thinking and it's going to get that problem solving mechanism in the subconscious on So that's a very very simple Five to 20 minute evening routine you can do before bed. I've done that again Probably at least for five years, especially during the worst years of my life So before you go the best way to stay in touch is to grab my free personal development and weight loss challenge at modernhealthmonk.com forward slash youtube You can also check out the last videos here and here and again the link to that challenge is also in the description box There below