And lots of other people do, on podcasts and books called “DO IT ALL BEFORE 4(am)” or “I MADE $1M WHILST YOU WERE STILL IN BED”.

But we rarely talk about how we switch off.

The data from my High Performance Routines assessment also shows a consistent pattern – we’re not warming down:

🔻 23% of people ‘rarely’ or ‘never’ have a cut-off time in the evening
🔻 39% say they respond to work messages during downtime
🔻 14% respond to work messages while relaxing, eating or watching TV
🔻 71% of us go to bed too late
🔻 Only 27% of us have a strong pre-sleep routine

When we compromise warm down, we risk carrying stress and stimulation into our evening hours.

We wouldn’t expect an elite athlete to finish training and immediately try to sleep without stretching, refuelling, unwinding.

Yet many of us do the cognitive equivalent of exactly that.

So here are a few simple ideas to get started.