Book Summary for DO IT TODAY by DARIUS FOROUX
Chapter 6 – This 30-Minute Evening Ritual Will Help
You To Kick Life In The Ass.
To say the least, after a long day, all you have at the forefront of your mind is rest.
I don’t know about you but for me, I don’t even want to have my brain racking about what’s done and not done!
However that’s not the case almost everyday as I found myself working late into the night, most nights I don’t catch a wink of sleep until the early hour of the morning. During these days, my day was always affected by this lack of sleep as I become touchy, sluggish and slurry. The author was right about that.
🛑 Just as the morning is important, the evening has similar significance too. It’s the time preceding the next day and actions taken at this time can make or mar the next day.
🛑 Follow through with this evening rituals just as much as you do in the morning;
❗ From 0 to 10 minutes, close the day.
This is similar to what my mom does after closing the store each and everyday. She takes 10 minutes to account what was sold, the debts taken and other stuffs before leaving for the house. I should have probably apply this before now to my life.
The author took time to explain how to close the day in these two steps;
1. Write what you have accomplished, learned or do that day.
2. Review your progress to your written task, goals or habit.
It’s that simple: Close your day before you start a new one
🛑 From minute 10 to minute 20: Review Tomorrow’s Calendar
Most anxiety comes from problem that are not real. This exercise is important and should be done before the next day also. Besides that it keeps you from guessing what to do first in the morning, it also helps you not to miss any important schedule.
In these steps, you can review your tomorrow’s calendar;
1. When you wake up, you want to know exactly what your
day is about?
2. Do you have any important meetings or calls?
3. Do you have any Deadlines?
4. What do you have to get done?
5. When are you working out?
6. Do you
have any pressing items on your agenda?
7. When are you dealing with them?
🛑 From minute 20 to minute 25: Prepare your outfit
I needed not to tell you this but I will anyway, picking your outfit in the morning can rather be a hasty decision or a patched up work.
Take for instance, in your head you already picked that blue shirt over that denim jean and a jacket to go. So, you went to bed and the next day, while you are making sure you keep on time you discovered few buttons are loose on the shirt or there’s an almighty stain on the jacket. How do you feel?
I would feel disorganised at this junction because I already prepared how I will look but altering it now wouldn’t just go down well with me. So, I tend to avoid stressing my brain by picking the outfit and checking them the night before.
🛑From minute 25 till minute 30: Visualize
This works for me more than I can tell. It’s just with the outfit something, you know what you’re doing at so so so time and so. It’s easier for you to ignore distractions the next day as you have put it in a pictorial way how your day will go and be spent.
Left to some impromptu, this knowledge alone kicks you out of the bed the next day before you even think on hitting the snooze button.
😁 That’s all for this chapter and I’m sure you also have one or two experience of each rituals.
Maybe you have been using these exercises or you are about to and you have lot of questions; Go on and ask me below.
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