152: Why You're Still Exhausted: The Evening Routine Fix | Lizzie Ens

Hello, guys.

Okay, why is your evening routine so important? Oh, I wish I could brand this in people's brains of why your evening routine is so important for you to have better sleep and your success into the next day.

It's so incredibly important.

And whenever I hear someone say they're not a morning person, it immediately tells me that they always go to bed too late in the evening.

The reason you're not a morning person is because you don't make sleep, a sleep hygiene routine, a priority to get yourself to bed on time.

Because your body's natural circadian rhythm is to go to bed after the sun goes down.

Not long after the sun goes down in the summer, that might be a little bit difficult.

But the natural circadian rhythm of the body is for melatonin to kick in after the sun goes down and then you go to bed.

And then the rising circadian rhythm is that you go to bed and you sleep seven, eight, nine hours.

I love when I sleep between eight and nine hours.

It's been a little rough lately.

For some reason, I'm waking up between seven and eight hours and I can feel it.

And it just tells me that there's some stuff going on.

It's okay.

Like I understand that it's about tuning in and understanding that I don't freak out about it, but I can feel it.

I'm the type of person that I do the very best if I get over eight hours of sleep.

And so your morning circadian rhythm is designed to naturally wake up in the morning without an alarm clock.

Bless you guys that are getting up at 3, 4 a.m. to an alarm because you got to be at work by 4.35 o'clock.

I used to do that and I hated every second of it, but I did it anyway because that was my job at the time.

Now I'm blessed enough to have created the life that I want to be able to get up and at a normal time where I don't have to get up with an alarm.

And if I have to get up at the crack of dawn or super early in the morning in order to get ready for the airport, because I have an early flight, hate early flights, but sometimes that's just how the penny falls, right? And we deal with it.

But with that being said, I wake up all night long because I'm like thinking about I don't think I'm gonna miss a flight, but it's just my nervous system is on high alert.

So now I'm gonna wake up to this alarm and that's what puts me in that heightened state.

But in general, I'm waking up naturally around the same time every morning without an alarm clock because I've set my circadian clock to work and be in a place of, hey, you go to bed at a certain time every night and it's within a 30 minute timeframe every single night, unless I'm out and there's something crazy going on.

But it's very rare that I push past that 30 minute mark.

Hello, guys.

Okay, why is your evening routine so important? Oh, I wish I could brand this in people's brains of why your evening routine is so important for you to have better sleep and your success into the next day.

It's so incredibly important.

And whenever I hear someone say they're not a morning person, it immediately tells me that they always go to bed too late in the evening.

The reason you're not a morning person is because you don't make sleep, a sleep hygiene routine, a priority to get yourself to bed on time.

Because your body's natural circadian rhythm is to go to bed after the sun goes down.

Not long after the sun goes down in the summer, that might be a little bit difficult.

But the natural circadian rhythm of the body is for melatonin to kick in after the sun goes down and then you go to bed.

And then the rising circadian rhythm is that you go to bed and you sleep seven, eight, nine hours.

I love when I sleep between eight and nine hours.

It's been a little rough lately.

For some reason, I'm waking up between seven and eight hours and I can feel it.

And it just tells me that there's some stuff going on.

It's okay.

Like I understand that it's about tuning in and understanding that I don't freak out about it, but I can feel it.

I'm the type of person that I do the very best if I get over eight hours of sleep.

And so your morning circadian rhythm is designed to naturally wake up in the morning without an alarm clock.

Bless you guys that are getting up at 3, 4 a.m. to an alarm because you got to be at work by 4.35 o'clock.

I used to do that and I hated every second of it, but I did it anyway because that was my job at the time.

Now I'm blessed enough to have created the life that I want to be able to get up and at a normal time where I don't have to get up with an alarm.

And if I have to get up at the crack of dawn or super early in the morning in order to get ready for the airport, because I have an early flight, hate early flights, but sometimes that's just how the penny falls, right? And we deal with it.

But with that being said, I wake up all night long because I'm like thinking about I don't think I'm gonna miss a flight, but it's just my nervous system is on high alert.

So now I'm gonna wake up to this alarm and that's what puts me in that heightened state.

But in general, I'm waking up naturally around the same time every morning without an alarm clock because I've set my circadian clock to work and be in a place of, hey, you go to bed at a certain time every night and it's within a 30 minute timeframe every single night, unless I'm out and there's something crazy going on.

But it's very rare that I push past that 30 minute mark.