Struggling to stick to your daily rituals? You’re not alone. In this episode, Marissa Hyatt and Ken Freire break down the four key rituals that set the tone for your day—and how to refresh them without overcomplicating things. Whether you need a morning boost or a better work shutdown routine, this episode will help you make your habits work for you.
Key Takeaways
- Shift From “Ideal” to “Realistic.” Setting a 2-hour morning routine? It’s probably not happening. Instead of planning for ideal, keep it simple. How much time do you really have?
- Make Space By Cutting. Overloaded routines don’t stick. Trim the excess so you can focus on what truly matters.
- Build Rituals You Love Keeping. If you hate waking up, add something you love—like a great playlist or a favorite drink—to look forward to.
- Keep Rituals Fluid. They’ll change with seasons of life, and that’s okay! Adjust them to fit your current reality. (We’ve got ideas to get you started.)
Resources
Watch on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/jmOiR3ZyK7U
This episode was produced by Sarah Vorhees Wendel of VW Sound
Creators & Guests
Host
Ken Freire
From the Big Apple to Middle Tennessee, Ken Freire is the Director of Memberships at Full Focus and the co-host of the Focus on This podcast. Ken has been in ministry for 15 years. He has always been passionate about leading and developing individuals to see their God-given potential and purpose in life. He loves speaking, coaching, and scaling companies. He’s been married for 12 years and is the father of four energetic little kids. In his spare time, he loves to read books on theology, leadership, and spiritual development. He also loves Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Host
Marissa Hyatt
Born and raised south of Nashville, Marissa is the Chief Marketing Officer at Full Focus. She is super passionate about helping people get outside their comfort zones, find their own power, and achieve their dreams. In her free time, she enjoys cooking for friends, baking sourdough bread, and hiking. She geeks out on natural wellness, skincare, personal growth, gardening, and traveling.
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[00:00:00] Ken, so one of my guilty pleasures on social media, which I'm trying to do less of, are these reels on Instagram or I don't use TikTok, but I'm sure they're on TikTok, which are all about people's like morning or evening rituals. Like the ones that are like my five to nine before my nine to five or my five to nine after my nine to five.
[00:00:21] I am so guilty. Like I could just watch an hour of those. I don't know what it is about seeing into like people's morning routine or whatever ritual they're talking about, I'm so captivated by it. There's this thing going on right now in reels, right? Where it's like, uh, we tell, but we don't judge. No, I haven't.
[00:00:43] So people will tell like this secret of like, Oh, Hey, I did this, but we don't judge. Right. But I'm like, Oh man, I'm totally judging people's morning routines, especially when it comes to ice bathing. You know, I got one. Yes. I'm judging you hardcore. I've only used it twice. [00:01:00] For real though. I'm judging you.
[00:01:02] It's okay. You can judge me. It does really help. Honestly, I probably should have had one this morning. It would have, I was a little tired today. And so it would have woken me right up if I would have done it. Okay. What's been the worst habit you've had or morning ritual in my morning ritual? When I don't really have a habit.
[00:01:19] It's like, when I make a habit out of not doing like, I just get up, drink a bunch of coffee, scroll social media. That's. Probably the worst. Yeah, mine was definitely at one point. I was picking up my phone and I was always watching something. Like I started watching a show just to wake me up. I'm like, yeah, this needs to stop.
[00:01:39] The worst is when you do that in bed. Not that I've ever done it, but hypothetically speaking, this is all hypothetical. Well, whether you like ice baths or not, we are going to be talking today about our rituals. And this is such a great episode that we have, you know, it's springtime. It's a great time to kind of reset and really think about like, how do you want [00:02:00] to Spring clean up your life.
[00:02:02] You know, we talked about that in the last episode and today I'm so excited because we're going to give you some fresh ideas for freshening up your rituals. So stay tuned for this episode.
[00:02:20] Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the internet so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start loving Mondays. I'm Ken Freire, here with my rock star co host, Marissa Hyatt. Heyo! Happy Monday! How are ya? Oh, I'm doing great. You know, this is like my favorite weather.
[00:02:44] Where you could be like wearing a hoodie and shorts and just go out in Nashville. It's, it's, it's just awesome. We are both in our hoodies today. We're nice and cozy. A little dreary out, but springs on the horizon, which I'm so grateful for. I'm so ready for like nice warm weathers. I need to [00:03:00] see some things blooming.
[00:03:01] I need some color. I feel like I know the bare trees. The hardest part for me is that I want to see everything bloom, but I don't want all the rain. Same. Ken, I have to share something funny that we were talking about earlier this week when we were texting. If you are a long time listener of the show, you know how many times there's two things that we say every single episode, which is happy Monday.
[00:03:25] And then we always say until next time, stay focused. Well, I swear every time Ken and I are texting, we do a lot of voice texts to each other and almost every single time, especially if it's Monday, I want to say happy Monday. And then when we're finishing our conversation, I always want to say until next time, stay focused.
[00:03:47] So I actually did it the other day in a voice text to you and you guys, it's. Become a problem. So I started laughing cause I was like, you know, sometimes I don't have a chance to listen to the [00:04:00] audio at first. So I'm just skimming, but I went to the end and it just says until next time. I'm like, did she just podcast me?
[00:04:09] It's pretty great. I feel like I want to do it too. When we do our coaching calls with our clients, I always at the end, I'm like, all right, well until next time and then. I always have this urge to say it and then I don't think I've actually said it. You should. It's just like a moniker at this point. We should just do it.
[00:04:24] I'm gonna do it everywhere. I'm gonna make it my new signature in my emails. Well, we're so excited about talking about rituals today. This is actually one of my favorite topics because I think this has really become like a phenomenon on social media where people they're clearly curious how other people are spending their time.
[00:04:44] What are the day to day habits and things that they do to Optimize their productivity, their life, getting all the things done that they get done. And I am so excited because here at Full Focus, we have four specific [00:05:00] rituals that really help to put like boundaries throughout your day. They help provide you with a rhythm and I find that they're super grounding.
[00:05:09] And honestly, I really need a reset on these at this point. I feel like, you know, there's cert, I go through seasons where I'm really, um, disciplined about this and I do great. And then there's inevitably a season that comes where I'm just not quite as. disciplined. And I feel like I'm in that season right now.
[00:05:29] And there's certain rituals I have that are pretty locked in, but like my morning ritual is, I really got to work on that. So that actually is going to be my personal challenge after this episode is to work on my, my morning ritual. So I like it to nobody's fault in some ways, because if you think about it, all of your rituals kind of go haywire during the holidays.
[00:05:50] And then at the beginning of the year, you're so focused on your goals, you're doing all these things to try to reach your goals. You kind of mess up all of your rituals, right? And you try to add too much [00:06:00] stuff to your morning ritual that it just goes bonkers. And that's why today I think it's really good that we're just pausing and saying, What should we do to get our rituals back in order so that we have good rhythms in life?
[00:06:11] Totally. We've got four rituals. Like I talked about, everybody's probably familiar with the evening and the morning ritual, whether you actually would consider those a ritual for you, you do have a set of activities or habits that you're doing. At those times of day, whether, whether you like it or not, you actually do have one, but there's two rituals that often people don't know about.
[00:06:35] And I think these are arguably the most important, especially when it comes to being able to transition in and out of our workday and actually be able to be present in the rest of our life outside of work. So those are our workday startup and our workday shutdown rituals. And. Honestly, I love these.
[00:06:57] When I talk to our coaching clients about this kin [00:07:00] and I really help them kind of craft that and what that looks like, their mind is blown. And then my favorite thing is when they come back a week later and they're like, I've started doing this and it's been a total game changer for my life. So if that's you, if you've never heard of these rituals or maybe you have, but you're like me and it's time to refresh them, you're going to get a lot out of today's episode.
[00:07:20] Yeah. So let's just jump in. Think about the four types of questions that you need to ask yourself to start getting a refresh. All right. So Marissa, what's question number one? Well, question number one is how much time do I really have? So I feel like the most common mistake for rituals is over engineering them.
[00:07:41] And so I want to just caution because this is like me, 100%, you know this kid. I love to create like an elaborate ritual and On this podcast, we've talked a lot about something else that we call the ideal week that has ideal in the name [00:08:00] intentionally. We intentionally don't have that word as part of anything we're going to talk about today.
[00:08:06] This isn't about creating an ideal morning ritual. Like if everything was perfect in your life. And you had, you know, four hours in the morning to do whatever you wanted. How would you engineer it? That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about, let's get real about how much time do I really have?
[00:08:25] Because we don't want this only to happen on days that are perfect. Because the truth is, if that's the case, they're basically never going to happen 100%. You know, if you say you're going to get up at 5 a. m, but the truth is, you know, you are somebody like me who is maybe not quite a morning person and you actually prefer to get up closer to like six or seven, then you're just immediately setting yourself up for failure.
[00:08:48] So be honest on a typical day, how much time do you have for each ritual? So like we talked about, we have four rituals. Our morning and evening rituals and then our workday [00:09:00] startup and shut down rituals. I like to say for the workday startup and shut down, you should be taking no longer than 30 minutes on those two rituals because other than that, it's going to bleed too much into your workday.
[00:09:11] And those are really just a set of habits that you need to do every single day to kind of get going and then to shut work down so you can be present in the rest of your life. How much time can do you take for your morning ritual? You and I are obviously in really different seasons of life, I mean we're similar ages, but you're married, you have four little kids, I'm single, so I'm curious to know, like, our listeners, how does this look for somebody who's married with a bunch of little kids?
[00:09:38] My morning ritual would, depends on the day, but would be about 45 minutes to an hour. If I'm working out that day, if I'm not, I try really hard to wake up at the same time, but I don't, and I end up sleeping a little bit more. So then my ritual changes, you know, to 30 to 45 minutes. Yeah. Mine on the other hand is about [00:10:00] two hours.
[00:10:01] And that's also, I would say probably the difference between men and women also, like it just. Genuinely takes me longer to like get ready for the day than probably it does for you I would assume you're not doing your makeup in the morning. I do have a skincare routine Thanks to a certain Hyatt that her name is Marissa Do you have a little bit of a skincare obsession?
[00:10:20] Well I think it's important to just say like, there's no right or wrong amount of time here. We just want it to be realistic for you in the stage of life that you're in. So if you're somebody who you're like me, you have the ability to take longer in your morning routine, like take that if you want to.
[00:10:38] If you're somebody who's in a similar stage to Ken, where you may have little kids or a spouse or, or your life just looks different, it may be more realistic to say, I'm going to take 45 minutes. Yeah. You know, for my morning routine. Absolutely. And especially for those who might be listening to this and they like have a newborn or they have such a radical shift into their schedule, just be mindful of [00:11:00] that constraint.
[00:11:01] So don't focus on your ideal, focus on the constraint. For example, I remember when I, uh, we had our fourth child, newborn, Megan was actually the one who was super helpful in this. She sat me down. I was talking to her at the time and she was like, Ken, just be mindful that your routines are going to be completely out of whack.
[00:11:19] So just tell yourself if you have five or 10 minutes in the morning to yourself. That's it. It wasn't like 25, 30 minutes, like what are the most essential things that you need to do for those five or 10 minutes so you can start your day off strong. Super helpful. I think that's wise advice. You can kind of think of this like a budget, you know, where you want to quote spend your dollars.
[00:11:39] on paper before you actually have them. But in order to do that, you need to know how much money is coming into your bank account, right? And so you can think of the time that you have as, as those dollars. So how much time do you actually have to play with here? And it's going to be different for each ritual and it's going to be different for different seasons in your life.
[00:11:59] [00:12:00] For Q4, for instance, when I'm at my busiest at work, that is probably going to shorten for me, you know, whereas this time of year, I have a little more flexibility than I do, you know, at the end of the year. So it could be different seasons during the year, during your life, but just be mindful of all of those things.
[00:12:16] And even if you have. Like just 15 minutes, or like you're saying, even just five minutes, you can work with that time. So there's no too little time and there's no too long of time. You just need to be realistic for yourself. So Ken, why don't you take us into question two, because this is pretty relevant to what you were just talking about with the advice Megan gave you.
[00:12:37] Yeah. Once you actually know how much time you have, then the question number two that you got to ask yourself is what is absolutely essential? All right, you might call these tasks like you're non negotiables. So no matter what happens, these are the things you need to do. And they set the tone for the day.
[00:12:56] And this is really important because what ends up happening to most people is they try to just [00:13:00] do a whole bunch of other things or try to say, Oh, I'll work out for five minutes and then I'll do a shower and it's like, no, no, no, you're non negotiables. Absolutely must have for you to feel like you, you won.
[00:13:12] So I remember going back to what Megan told me. She's like, Ken, what do you need to do to feel like you're set up to win for the day? I said, I need to take a shower. I'm one of those people that like, I just have to shower every morning or else I feel grumpy and like frustrated about life. I don't know why that is, but I just feel way better.
[00:13:30] Like while I'm showering, I'm like praying. And then once I'm done praying, I'm just reading my Bible for a few minutes. That could be 45 minutes. That could be 10 minutes, right? Totally, but i'm off to the races and that's Super helpful for me to just get my mindset right for the day Yeah, and similarly, you know for my evening ritual i've actually I feel like that's one of the rituals that i've Done a really good job at maintaining my morning ritual needs some work.
[00:13:55] Okay. So like that, like I said, that's going to be my challenge to myself after this is to refresh my [00:14:00] morning ritual. If you're in our double wind coaching program, I'll be sharing more about this as we go through our, our weekly calls and kind of crafting this together with you guys. But I feel like my evening ritual is pretty great.
[00:14:12] And my non negotiables on that are, I always do my skincare. Skincare has to happen no matter what. I love it. It feels rejuvenating to me. It feels relaxing. It feels like, okay, I finally like washed the day off, you know, and something about like the little massage and it takes like two seconds. I could obviously like draw that out, but it's usually pretty short.
[00:14:34] And then I always put on some kind of like relaxing meditative music. That's like super just. I do the deep sleep playlist on Spotify a lot. There's several other playlists I listen to. And I always, even if it's for like three minutes, I always lay on my acupressure mat. If you guys have been listening to the podcast for a long time, you know, this is one of my very favorite things that I have.
[00:14:59] It's a mat [00:15:00] that has like spiky. little points on it. It's super relaxing. It's calming. It immediately, for whatever reason, just grounds me and helps my body just go like, it's like an exhale for my body. And I do that while putting my legs up on the wall, which helps the circulation and lymphatic drainage.
[00:15:20] And it's really relaxing to me. I think it's good for your nervous system regulation. But I always do that every single night, even if it's like I said for just a couple of minutes, it's usually around 15 minutes. And sometimes I meditate during that time and sometimes I don't, but those would 100 percent be my non negotiables in the evening.
[00:15:51] As you're trying to figure out like what are your non negotiables, this actually leads to question number three. What can you cut off? Marissa, take us through this little [00:16:00] process of what can you cut off? Yeah. Well, like I talked about, it's really easy to make your rituals ideal and not a reality. So I'm going to give you guys a challenge that there's probably at least one thing That you could cut from your daily rituals, whether that's your morning ritual and you're just trying to squeeze in too many things in the morning, you could probably cut one of those.
[00:16:23] And it's not going to have a dramatic effect on the rest of your day, or maybe in your workday startup. This was true for me where previously this was a few years ago. I felt like my morning or my workday startup could be. Like an hour long ritual if I wanted it to be. And it just, I wasn't doing it because it was taking way too long.
[00:16:45] And so I found myself putting it off because I felt like I only have 30 minutes today before my first meeting. So there's no way that I can even do it. So I'm just not going to do the whole thing. And Megan similarly was who challenged me and said, actually, it should only [00:17:00] be 30 minutes. So you need to think about what can you cut?
[00:17:03] And I realized I was trying to do way too many things. And all I really needed to do was to set my daily big three for the day. What are the three most important tasks that I needed to get done, especially as it related to my goals and my projects, and then checking email Slack and then reviewing my calendar.
[00:17:22] Literally like that's my workday startup ritual and it has been such a game changer. But previously I was trying to do all these KPIs in there and make sure I was responding to every single email and every single Slack message that came through. It was just like. way too much. So what is something that you can cut from your ritual?
[00:17:44] And there might be other things. If you think about all four rituals, right? Like maybe the morning ritual, it might be not, um, looking at your phone. First thing, right? It might be actually just getting an alarm clock so that you can do that for an evening ritual. For some of you, it's like snacking right [00:18:00] before bed.
[00:18:00] I'm guilty of that. I can definitely be a snacker. So, you know, can I give you a tip on this again that somebody gave me that has been actually really helpful. I always like to have a snack like an hour or so after dinner. So I've now started planning it first of all. So it's not just like I'm going to the fridge or the pantry, just like, you know, staring at it.
[00:18:21] Like what do I want tonight? But I'm planning it out before, like as part of my meal plan for the week, I'm like, okay, so at night I'm going to have an orange and. You know, a handful of nuts or I don't know, whatever, whatever the snack may be. That's such a healthy snack. We got some work, you know, wellness goals this quarter.
[00:18:39] So that's what I'm working on. But once I've done that, I clean up the kitchen a little bit. I tidy up. I turn off the lights intentionally in my kitchen, and I tell myself the kitchen's closed. So if this is something, like if you're a snacker like me, and I'm totally a snacker at night, specifically, I [00:19:00] don't snack actually at all during the day.
[00:19:02] It's only at night. Just have a new rule for yourself that the kitchen's closed and like literally tidy up. Like, as if it were a restaurant, turn the lights off and the kitchen's closed. So that has helped. Yeah. So maybe that's you too. Yeah. I can tell myself all the time. Like I was like, my last snack will be at a certain time.
[00:19:22] So I like give myself permission, but after that it's like, Nope, I'm going to go to bed. I don't want to have anything in my system. Like that's been super helpful for me. I can tell you one of the worst habits that I had for my evening ritual. Was that I would have dairy right before I go to bed? Oh yeah, that's a rad one.
[00:19:37] And uh, I don't know Marissa if I ever told you this, but like, if I ever have dairy past 7 o'clock, I will have the trippiest dreams at night. They're like LSD type dreams. I will wake up and I'm like, what the heck is going on? I don't know if I'm in reality. I don't know what kind of dairy you're having, but I don't think it's the same kind of dairy I'm having.[00:20:00]
[00:20:00] That's hilarious. Well, this is, you know, you can definitely cut out something that maybe you want to not have as part of your ritual, but you can also do this if you're something like, It's not working out for you and you're, you want to like get this off of your plate. Honestly, like this can help you reduce the like personal guilt too.
[00:20:19] If you find that you're like not doing a certain part of your ritual over and over and over, just cut it out. Like you're creating the rules for the game that you're playing. I think it's. So easy to forget that. We like all of a sudden have all these rules that guess what we've made up. Like nobody is coming in and saying you have to do X, Y, and Z every single day.
[00:20:40] We're setting that expectation for ourselves. So for instance, if you find that you wanted to go on a walk every single morning as part of your, you know, morning ritual and you're not doing it, just take it out. Like literally take it off your plate and don't do it. You could do something else instead or just put that at a different part of your [00:21:00] day.
[00:21:00] If it makes sense, like I was trying to do that for a long time and it wasn't working. And so now I work out in the afternoon because it works better for me at that time of day. So just get your ritual to work for you. You're not trying to work for your ritual, right? Like, you want your rituals to work for you.
[00:21:16] So make sure that they actually are. That's a hundred percent. I'll give you a great example of that. I remember in my morning ritual, I wanted to read. You know, I was like, Oh, I want to like open a book. And for months I could not do it. And I was like, I'm an avid reader and I just couldn't do it. My brain doesn't work that very well early in the morning.
[00:21:34] So I don't know why. But then I finally just gave myself permission to say, You know what? I'm not going to read other books right now. But where in my schedule can I read even if it's for 10 minutes? And what I found is when I put the kids to bed, you know, I'd say my good night, but then Bethany, my wife would go down there and she'll say good night to them.
[00:21:52] Well, then there's that 10 minute gap. And I was like, I just started reading while I'm waiting for her to come back up so we can start chatting. Um, and it was just like so [00:22:00] much. Like this weight lifted off of me. I was like, I feel I'm progressing, you know, in my learning, in my mind, uh, domain. And at the same time, I'm like, just feel lively.
[00:22:10] Cause I was like, Ooh, I'm excited. I'm, I'm actually accomplishing something. Yeah. So like we said, you know, there's no failure here. You're creating what you want this to look like so that it works for you. Okay. Like that is the goal. That's a whole reason we want you to have these four rituals established for yourself is because these are the things that really help you set up your day, provide you with the energy that you need so that you can go accomplish the things that you want to accomplish.
[00:22:38] So you can be present in your life, whether that's when you're at work or when you're with your family or with your hanging with your friends or just by yourself, right? Like that's the whole reason for these rituals and you can kind of. Think of them as like a group of habits that you want to establish to really help you be set up for optimal success.
[00:22:58] Okay. So [00:23:00] let's talk about the last question, but before we get there, I would just want to recap really quick. The first three. So question number one is how much time do I really have? So the key here is like, we want you to be realistic. We don't want this to be an ideal ritual. We want it to be a realistic ritual.
[00:23:15] Question two is what is absolutely essential. So what are those things that you really need to do that are your non negotiables? And then question three, what can I cut? So what do you just need to stop doing that either isn't working or you just don't want to do or you felt obligated to do, but it's not really working for you anymore.
[00:23:34] So lastly, question four is what will make me look forward to this ritual? You know, the second most common mistake when it comes to rituals. is filling them with what we should do. We've already talked about this a little bit, but we really want you to fill your rituals with things that you want to do.
[00:23:52] And especially as you think about your morning and your evening rituals, you've got to look forward to these. If you're somebody like me [00:24:00] who maybe isn't the most natural morning person, you know, like I would say that's probably not my nature is to be up super early, although that has grown over time.
[00:24:09] And one of the ways that I've been able to develop that is by creating a morning ritual that I look forward to and arguably more important, an evening ritual that helps me wind down at the same time every single night. And I've gotten really good at this. This used to be. Part of the reason I was totally not a morning person was because I was going to bed at all different hours There was kind of no rhyme or reason Sometimes it was you know, 10 o'clock.
[00:24:38] Sometimes it was like midnight. It just depended on kind of how I felt or How many TV shows I was watching that night or whatever, you know, and honestly, I got an aura ring and that's a wearable tracking device that helps specifically for sleep. And it really has been a game changer for me because it shows [00:25:00] me all these different data points on my sleep every single night.
[00:25:04] And I know that when I go to sleep at the same time, every night, I feel so much more rested and the next morning I'm way more likely to wake up. When my alarm goes off, then if I go to bed super late, like last night, I went to a concert and it was great and super fun. It was ended up not starting until a little bit later.
[00:25:25] And then I didn't get home till like 10 30 and y'all, it was hard to get up this morning. And that hasn't happened in so long because I always go to bed at the same time. So thinking about your morning and your evening rituals, figuring out what is going to make you look forward to those. So what are you going to love?
[00:25:44] What's going to feel like I talked about like my skincare routine at night that I love that. I look forward to it every night. I enjoy that process. My Acupressure mat. I love, like I take that thing on vacation with me wherever I go. And it's [00:26:00] kind of a pain to pack, but it's worth it because I look forward to it so much that there'll be times where I'm watching a show and I'm like, no, I just want to go get on my mat.
[00:26:09] Like I want to be done. I want to go relax. And that's how you should feel about your evening ritual and your morning ritual. Those are all fantastic. And what I would say is as you're thinking about all these. Right. You're like, which one should I start? Just pick one. Don't try to do all four. That would be way too overwhelming, right?
[00:26:28] Just pick one of them to start asking these four questions. Number one, how much time do I really have? Number two, what is absolutely essential? Number three, what can I cut? And number four, what makes me look forward to this ritual? And for some of you, if you don't know what that might be, this week, here's what I want you to focus on.
[00:26:46] Pick the ritual you're struggling with the most and refresh that one. Don't pick more than one ritual, just pick one of them. And if you don't know which one, maybe start with your evening ritual, because that's going to help you with the rest of your day the following day. Totally. Well, for [00:27:00] me, that's going to be my morning ritual.
[00:27:02] I know that without a shadow of a doubt, I need to refresh that. Ken, what, what is the one for you? I think it might be the evening ritual because I'm kind of in this stage right now where I'm going to bed later than I want to, and it affects my morning when I want to wake up. Because my wife puts on the alarm at 440, and I'm like, Whoa!
[00:27:22] I know. Bethany, girl. I was like, please, stop it. The other day she wasn't going to go to the gym, I'm like, Can you please not put the alarm for 440? Can you please? And she's like, why? It's good. I'm like, no, no, no. I want to sleep in. Oh my gosh. Okay, can I give you one tip? Practical tip before we wrap up and round out this.
[00:27:43] Let's do it. This is something kind of talking about what's going to make you look forward to this ritual, natural, non morning person. The thing I used to dread the most about my morning ritual was my alarm going off. Right? Like that's always the hardest. You guys have probably [00:28:00] heard about Mel Robbins, you know, the five second rule where she's like, you basically, I think it's like you count to five and then you just get up and get out of bed.
[00:28:08] All of that's great and fine. For me, the thing that really, really helped the most was I got two years ago, I asked for a hatch alarm clock for Christmas and I got one, and this is a alarm clock that mimics the sunrise. And so it wakes you up. You can have sound on it. I don't have sound on mine. I just have the light, but it gradually gets, it goes from like kind of a, a red color all the way up to like a bright kind of white light, like the sun would be.
[00:28:38] And it does it over, I think like a 30 or 20 minute period. So it's super gradual and it really helps reduce like the melatonin. It helps you actually like wake up naturally rather than having that jarring alarm clock. So. If your morning ritual is something that you're struggling with, I want to encourage you to check out the Hatch Alarm.
[00:28:59] They're not [00:29:00] super cheap, but they're totally worth it. It's been really helpful for me for helping me get up at the same time every day and not feel like I'm being shaken, you know, awake. That's my final tip for y'all. That's a fantastic tip. Let's end on that.
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