Do you have an evening ritual?

How you end your night determines how your next day will play out. This is why it's so important that you have a night routine.

An evening ritual is simply a repeated system of habits that helps you wind down and conclude your day. My evening ritual is non-negotiable.

Want to know my evening ritual is for optimal sleep and finishing the day strong? Keep reading!

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How do you spend your evenings?

When you have long workdays, it can be challenging to shut off your mind. In this state, sleep is highly unlikely. Oftentimes, this is when people turn on the TV or scroll through their phones. Entirely unbeknownst to them is the fact that staring at a screen is further inhibiting their ability to fall asleep.

According to the National Institutes of Health, it’s estimated that around 30% of the general population in the United States has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. If you don't get enough sleep, it makes sense that your energy levels will be diminished. As an entrepreneur, I don't have time to be lethargic. If I'm not feeling full power, my business doesn't run effectively.

On top of that, fatigue wreaks havoc on my productivity levels. This is why my evening ritual is so important. Before I go to bed every night, I engage in a series of rituals that nurture my mind, body, and spirit. Doing so ensures that I get the most out of my day and my life.  Here are some of the things that I do as part of my evening ritual.

1. I wear blue-blocking glasses

3. I reflect upon the magic moments of my day

Self-reflection through journaling is a core part of my evening ritual. I ask myself, “What was great about today?” Even if you had the worst day ever, there is always something to be grateful for. You have to be willing to look for the good, which is usually found in the small things that you do.

When you create the habit of looking for the good, more good things will naturally flow into your life. I also ask myself questions like, “What were the magic moments of my day?” As an example of a fun exercise you can do with yourself or your partner, Tatiana and I have a jar with post-it notes that we've created.

On these post-it notes, we write down one moment that we shared together that was something we will never forget. We put it in the jar and after some time passes, we will pull out the jar, look at the notes, and reflect upon those magic moments. The more that you capture and feel into the magic moments that you experience, the richer your life will be.

I also ask myself, “What could I have done better during the day? What did I learn?” If you commit to learning and growing every day, over time you will have a better quality of life.

4. I read or watch an inspirational video

I'm a huge fan of reading. I believe that reading is a powerful tool for learning more about yourself and the world. It depends on the book, but certain resources will relax me more than others. In the evening, I also like to watch educational videos and documentaries on Gaia. It's like Netflix, but the content is focused more on spirituality and self-development.

5. I listen to guided meditations

Meditation has changed my life. As someone who is always switched on in my business, it's so important that I take time to calm my mind. Meditating helps me release stress and feel more in control of my emotional state. When you go to bed, there is a period of time when your mind is more suggestible to certain ideas.

This is why I like to integrate guided sleep meditations into my evening ritual. This is a great exercise to relax your mind and body before bed. One of the first self-development teachers I learned from was Paul McKenna who is an expert in NLP and hypnosis. If I'm not listening to one of his recordings, I'll play Christian meditations.

If you don't already have it, I suggest downloading an app onto your phone called Calm. They've got some great meditations and sleep stories. Any empowering message that you can implant into your subconscious mind is a bonus. In terms of when I go to bed, I aim for 10 pm and I wake up at 5 or 6 am. Once you condition yourself to wake up early, it becomes easier over time.

6. I wear my Oura Ring

This is a fitness tracker that tracks your sleep, heart rate, and body temperature. The Oura Ring tells you how much deep and REM sleep you are getting. By having this awareness, I've been able to increase the amount of deep sleep that I get every night, by 2 hours.

This is my evening ritual for optimal sleep and finishing the day strong.

If you want to feel unstoppable every day, it's equally important that you create an empowering morning ritual. Creating healthy habits in the day sets you up to win. I believe that, if you want to maximize your full potential, you must give equal attention to all three aspects of yourself.

This is why I wrote a book called 67 Morning Ritual Habits For Your Body, Mind, and Spirit. The rituals inside of my book are designed to help you become the best version of yourself. If you want to go deeper, I've got a course called Morning Ritual Mastery that will guide you through how to create an empowering morning ritual in 30 days.

How you start and end your day determines your success in life. Make yourself a priority. Creating healthy habits will give you the mental and emotional edge that you need to thrive.

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Today I would like to walk you through my morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity. This routine allows me to optimize my body, mind, and spirit so that I can perform at my best, every day.

I’m a big believer in the power of rituals. I’ve been doing them since I was 17 years old. I used to struggle with shyness, social anxiety, and depression.

By creating a morning ritual, I was able to recondition my beliefs and transform every area of my life.

The morning is the best time to condition your mindset. Research shows that your mood in the morning affects your productivity all day.

Are you ready to wake up every day, feeling more productive, energized, and happier? My morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity will allow you to make that happen.

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Discipline is one of greatest barriers that prevent people from achieving success in life. If you want to build habits that stick, you need to be consistent with them. In the words of Tony Robbins says, “The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

How you start the day is how you end the day. If you only engage in a habit once in a while, it won’t stick. It’s what you do consistently that makes the difference.

How do you start your mornings?

If you wake up in a reactive state, you will move throughout your entire day feeling stressed and anxious. A lot of people believe that they need a triple espresso as soon as they get out of bed. This way of thinking is counterintuitive.

My morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity provides me with a natural ‘buzz.' It makes me feel unstoppable, without the negative effects that come from over-use of stimulants.

Do you wake up every morning, feeling tired and sluggish, even though you slept for 8 hours? If so, it’s time to start a morning ritual.

If you want to maximize your productivity, you need to spend the first part of your morning taking care of YOU. If you make your job, your partner, or your friends a priority, then you need to commit to making yourself a priority as well.

Just like you train your body at the gym, you need to train your brain every day. I treat myself as if I am a high-performance athlete. I know that if I want to get the most out of myself, I have to create rituals that will allow me to do just that.

In order to make sure that I successfully complete my morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity, I create a list and check-off each activity, as I complete it.

The purpose of a checklist is so that I can visually measure my progress as time goes on. If you don’t have a plan for your life and you just move throughout your day aimlessly, then you’re not going to get the most out of it.

Here is my morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity:

1. Smile

The first thing that I do the moment that I wake up is smile. When you start your day with gratitude, it shifts your entire perspective. Every day that you are alive is a gift, and you need to treat it as such. Don’t ever take your life for granted.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t feel happy and positive 100% every morning, but by training myself to smile and start the day in an empowering way, I am setting myself up for success.

Research shows that when you smile, neurochemicals and peptides are released, which tricks your body into raising your dopamine; which in turn raises your spirits and calms your nervous system.

2. Drink Water

After you’ve been sleeping for 7-8 hours your body is dehydrated, and your cells crave water. I’ve got a water ionizer that I use which produces high quality, 9.5 alkaline water.

By drinking water first thing in the morning, you kick-start your metabolism, which will give you immediate energy and flush out toxins from your body.

3. Take Supplements

I start off by taking a shot of apple cider vinegar, which is a great bacteria killer. Then, on an empty stomach, I take a digestive enzyme supplement called, Masszymes. I also take a variety of other supplements, like B12 and Vitamin D3.

Supplements like these ensure that I have energy throughout the day, so that I never have to rely on caffeine or sugar. More importantly, engaging in this body ritual ensures that I will experience optimal health and performance, over the long-term.

4. Read A Book

I spend at least 10 minutes every morning reading an inspiring book on my Kindle reader. Don’t start your day by obsessing over social media, or reading negative things on the news. Instead, try feeding your mind with positive information and commit to learning something new.

5. Write in my Journals

After reading a book, I like to write in my Five Minute Journal, a simple exercise that allows me to focus on what is most important for me to accomplish throughout my day.

I also write in my Productivity Planner, which offers a similar process. I write down what my most important task for the day is, what my secondary tasks of importance are, and then determine what my daily productivity score is.

For those of you who are spiritual, I also write in my Christian gratitude journal.

6. Lie Down On My PEMF Mat

A PEMF mat is a portable mat that produces pulsed electromagnetic fields around an individual’s body. I lie on this mat every morning and do my meditation.

The health benefits of PEMF are amazing, some of which include regenerating nerves, reducing stress and fatigue, and eliminating bodily toxins.

I hope you enjoyed learning about my morning ritual for daily success, motivation and productivity! If you want the more in-depth version, that covers all of my rituals, then join my 7-day course, Morning Ritual Mastery.

Rituals have been the secret to my success, and have allowed me to become the person that I am today. Invest in yourself. Your body, mind, and spirit deserve it.

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I would like to share with you 5 tricks on how to sleep better and wake up with unstoppable energy. Do you get enough sleep, or do you wake up feeling constantly tired and drained? If so, you aren’t alone.

Sleep seems like a very simple thing, but it's an undervalued activity. In today’s stress-induced, technology driven, coffee addicted world, it’s more important than ever before.

All of these stimulants interfere with our natural sleep/wake cycle. Unfortunately, a lot of people suffer from chronic lack of sleep.

New research suggests that a good night's rest isn't a luxury – it's critical for your brain and for your health.

A good night’s sleep is essential to optimal health. Are you ready to wake up every day feeling energized and refreshed on an emotional, mental, and physical level?

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I always thought, because I got 7-8 hours of sleep every night, I was set. However, it wasn’t until I purchased an OURA ring that I realized that I wasn’t getting enough deep sleep.

The OURA ring, otherwise known as the world’s first ring-size wellness computer, is a high-performance activity and sleep tracker.

When you are sleeping there are three different sleep cycles that you go through – deep, REM, and light. Deep sleep is the most restorative and beneficial form of sleep.

With the OURA ring, I am able to track my sleeping patterns, and what I found was that my deep sleep was really low.

You want to have up to 2 hours of deep sleep every night. The OURA ring showed me that, some nights, I was only getting 10-20 minutes of deep sleep.

I took a step back and asked myself, “Why is it that I sleep for 8 hours, but still move throughout my day feeling tired?” 

It’s not just about quantity of your sleep that matters. The quality of your sleep is just as important, if not more.

Research shows that sleep deprivation can be a possible risk factor for serious physical conditions, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and suppression of the immune system. This proves the importance that sleep plays in the impact of our overall health and well-being.

You spend one-third of your life sleeping, so you want to make sure that you are doing it right! Sleep has the power to transform your entire life. Literally.

Below are 5 tips on how to sleep better and wake up with unstoppable energy. I’ve personally tested all of these things and they’ve made a huge difference in my life:

1. Swannies Blue Blocker Sunglasses

I wear Swannies Blue Blocker sunglasses in the evening time. Their purpose is to block out the harmful lights and rays that prevent my body from releasing melatonin and falling asleep. If you use your phone, watch TV, or are using your computer at night, turn these off a few hours before bed.

2. Sleep Master Sleep Mask

This is like a pillow for your face. The Sleep Master sleep mask helps with light elimination AND sound reduction.

It’s really important to make sure that your room is pitch black when you go to sleep. In fact, Arianna Huffington wrote a book called, Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time. She swears by it when she travels.

3. ChiliPad

The ChiliPad is a mattress pad with a cooling and heating temperature control system that allows you to cool or heat the temperature of your mattress so that you will never be too hot or too cold.

This is important because the temperature that you sleep at effects the quality of your deep sleep. This is a great product to use if you sleep with a partner, given that research shows 95% of partners enjoy different temperature levels when they sleep.

4. PEMFs

A PEMF Mat is a portable mat that produces pulsed electromagnetic fields around an individual’s body. This field then delivers healing energy to the body by producing negative ions and far infrared waves.

Another great alternative is the Earth Pulse sleep machine, which utilizes electrically generated pulsed electromagnetic fields to program the brain toward deep sleep. Both of these products have helped to drastically improve my sleep.

5. Melatonin, CBD, or GABA supplements

Melatonin is a hormone in the body that regulates your cycle of sleeping and waking. It is a great supplement to use if you are jet lagged, because it resets your wake cycle. That being said, I suggest you make an effort to regulate your sleep cycle naturally as much as possible.

Cannabidiol, or CBD oil, as it is commonly referred to, works with the body’s endocannabinoid system (ECS), which is responsible for all the homeostatic functions of the body. CBD can be extremely effective in regulating your REM sleep.

Lastly, GABA is a neuroinhibitory transmitter, which is what your brain uses in order to shut itself down at the end of the day. Any of these supplements are great options for achieving a better sleep.

How To Sleep Better

The healing power of sleep cannot be ignored. I suggest that you follow these 5 tricks on how to sleep better and wake up with unstoppable energy.

They will make a drastic improvement in your energy levels throughout the day and your overall mood. Sleep supports your mind, body, and spirit.

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The OURA ring, otherwise known as the world’s first ring-size wellness computer, is a high-performance activity and sleep tracker. This awesome ring helps me perform better.  I’ve been wearing the OURA ring for the past few months and I’ve noticed a massive improvement in my sleep and energy levels. You may be wondering, “How can wearing a ring make you sleep and feel better?”  

When you sleep, the OURA ring analyzes the quality of your rest and recovery by measuring your heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature, and movement. When you are awake, it monitors the duration and intensity of your activities (Griffiths, 2015). Petteri Lahtela, the CEO and co-founder of OURA says, “It’s basically a computer on your finger that interprets sleep and other rhythms of your body through built-in nanosensors.”

As many of you know, I am a huge fan of morning rituals, which allow me to perform at my best and be in a peak state, so that I am unstoppable every day. This awesome ring helps me perform better.  A good night’s sleep is a precursor for a productive day. If you wake up feeling groggy most days, the OURA ring could be the answer to your sleepless nights.

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The OURA ring helps you track how your lifestyle choices are affecting your sleep and how the quality of your life affects your ability to perform.  I’m a huge fan of activity trackers. Anything that brings more awareness to my overall activity on a daily basis and that motivates me to move more is a great thing. Human beings weren’t designed to sit all day. We were made to move and be active.

The best part about this product is that it syncs to my phone, via Bluetooth. The OURA App is excellent, in terms of its usability and data display.  It ring tracks your heart rate, as well as the number of steps you take, the exercise you do, the calories that you burn, and your temperature.  Furthermore, it reads your overall sleep activity, which they call your “readiness score,” which takes into account all the exercise you have done and how much sleep you had the night before.  For example, if I got a great night's sleep and recovered well the next day, the ring will send me a notification suggesting that I could take it easy today because I recovered well.

In the past, some nights I would sleep for 8 hours and wake up refreshed, whereas other nights I would sleep for 8 hours and wake up feeling groggy. From using the OURA ring, I have learned that it's not about the quantity of your sleep, but rather it's about the quality.  Because this ring tracks your heart rate and your temperature, it gives you some great insights about the quality of your sleep.  By having this awareness, I've been able to increase the amount of deep sleep that I get every night, by 2 hours.  As a result, my entire life has transformed.  This awesome ring helps me perform better.  I'm a big fan of biohacking my sleep.  I've used a Fitbit in the past in order to track my sleeping patterns, but the OURA ring takes it one step further and tracks the following sleep data:

• Total Sleep Time
• Sleep Efficiency – a measure between time asleep and time awake
• Sleep Disturbances – showing how restless you were during the night
• REM – how much REM stage sleep you got
• Deep – how much deep stage sleep you got
• Sleep Onset Latency – how long it took you to fall asleep
• Circadian Alignment – whether or not you are sleeping in alignment with the light/dark cycle

Another reason why I switched from a Fitbit to the OURA ring is that you can turn it off via Bluetooth. FitBit does not allow this. This is great because it erases the potential for harmful effects on the body, which can effect your overall health.

This awesome ring helps me perform better.  If you want to learn more about the product, visit the OURA ring website.  Because I am an affiliate for this company, I was able to get a 10% discount for my members. If you want to purchase the ring, log onto their website, and click on, ‘get the ring.’ At check out, if you want to save 10%, use the coupon code, ‘mastery.’

In the words of Brian Tracy, “Peak performance begins with you taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.”  Your ability to perform at an optimal level every day depends on the quality of your sleep.  Take control of your well-being so that you can master all areas of your life.

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