054: Morning (& evening rituals) that set you up for success!

In this episode we talk about why it’s important to have a morning ritual. What a morning ritual really is and what it isn’t (It doesn’t mean you have to kill yourself getting up crazy early on the first day!) We talk about the components that could go in the a morning routine for you and how to create one with a ‘menu’ of ideas. Inside the lab, we Deep Dive into an EVENING routine and how this is the thing that can make all the difference for you to have success in the morning! Join the lab by heading to www.livebiglab.com. music by bensound. com Transcript: Hi, I’m Betsy Pake. I’m a reinvention strategist and NLP coach, author and speaker. But really, I feel like I just work with people all over the country to help them be happier. And to help them have a little bit more ease in their life. Today, I hope to do the same for you. Thanks for listening. Now, let’s go live. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show. I am Betsy Pake, and I’m here today to talk with you about morning and evening rituals that will set you up for success. Now, this is a practice that I started probably about four years ago. And it really had an incredible impact. Having that structure for my mornings really made a huge impact on how I went forward in my day, and how I actually became the person who could do the things that I wanted to do. I’m going to explain all that. And I’m going to let you in on some really great tips and some tips to set up your evening routine. Now. I totally believe that the morning routine success starts in the evening. That’s going to be inside the lab. So if you want some information about the lab, you can text live big one word 2444999. Or you can just go to live big lab.com. All right, we got that out of the way. All right. So let’s get into it. When my daughter was in elementary school, so she is a sophomore in high school now. But when she was in elementary school, things were hectic. I was a single mom, I had to get up really early, get her ready, get myself ready for work. Gosh, I remember those days driving to a daycare, bringing her to a daycare in the morning, the daycare fed her breakfast, and brought her to school, picked her up from school. And then I picked her up from daycare at like six or 630 at night. It was such a rough time looking back, I just felt so lost. And in the mornings, they were just hectic, right? I mean it there is it just felt like there was no way to get a handle and have things run smoothly. Boy, if I knew then what I know now. But the reality is that my life wouldn’t be different right now, if I hadn’t made the changes and started to implement that program that morning routine when I did. So I want to share with you a little bit about my morning routine, some morning routines of some other people that might really help you and just some ideas to kind of help you get in the flow. And to help you think through how you could set your mornings up so that your whole day went smoother. Now you might be thinking like what’s the big deal morning routine, like so what you had a hectic morning, like that sounds hectic, I get it. But the reality is, is that how we start our day really sets the tone for every other part of our day. And so if we start the day feeling behind, if we start the day, feeling frazzled, that’s the energy that we have going into our day at work. It’s the energy we have going into our day with our friends, it’s the energy that we have, that’s really starting to hold us back. So this feeling of like, I can’t get ahead, I’m always behind, everything’s always so hectic. You know, I’m not in control.