hello everyone in today's video we are
going to talk about five things you can
do at night for an easier morning
everything we are going to discuss on
this video will mainly revolve around
the concept of decision fatigue this
term was coined by a social psychologist
called Roy Baum hyster and he says that
decision fatigue is the decline in the
quality of decisions that are made by a
person after many decisions have been
made in a row if all these decisions are
made in the morning when you're still
foggy because of sleep and you haven't
had your coffee yet
decision fatigue will be higher than
doing a more productive time during your
day this means that if you can reduce
the number of decisions you make in the
morning by doing them at night you will
save precious time in the morning and
you'll have a more relaxed morning
routine before you go to school
University or work so my first tip for
having an easier morning is cleaning up
for 15 minutes at night I've actually
incorporated this habit into my
nighttime routine so after I do off my
skincare I quickly go around the house
and start putting back things where they
belong I try to clean the surfaces of my
home such as my vanity or my dining
table as well as cleaning the bathroom
I really feel motivated when I wake up
in a tidy house and I feel like my
morning gets quite easier because
everything is where it should be and I
don't have to think about cleaning
before I want to rush out of the house
the second thing I urge you to do during
nighttime is setting goals and planning
for the next day sometimes I think the
world is divided between morning
planners and nights time planners but I
really believe that planning at night
gives you a boost of motivation to wake
up in the following day by going to bed
knowing exactly what you have to do the
next day you become well aware of the
rhythm you should have in the following
day the time you'll have available to
work or to relax and you'll just wake up
with the mindset you should have to
tackle all those tasks instead of having
to enter that mindset
after a planning session in the morning
my third tip is to meal prep your
breakfast
and lunch the night before this does not
necessarily mean you have to cook at
night but there are some things that you
can definitely do before going to bed
that will make cooking and prepping your
food much easier for instance if you are
used to drink a green smoothie in the
morning maybe we can cut all of your
veggies and fruits the night before put
them in a ziplock bag and then just pop
it on the fridge so you can remove it in
the morning even if you're not preparing
your foods and not before maybe you can
use this precious time to decide what
type of food you're going to eat the
following day as well as what you need
to prepare in the morning to take with
you for lunch or for snacks the fourth
thing you can do is do one small task
that you could do the following day I
think this is more like a psychological
trigger than a real time-saver but I
believe that if you set yourself for
success in the following day you'll have
an easier morning and you'll feel much
more motivated to start doing your work
for instance if I'm going to film the
following day I usually film in the
morning so the night beforehand I'm
going to set up my camera so as soon as
I've taken my breakfast I know that I'm
ready to go and I don't have to do all
of those menial tasks that include
taking off my equipment out of my cut
boards and then setting up my tripod
connecting the camera charging the
batteries and so on you can also answer
a couple of emails that are still
resting in your inbox in case they are
not important or even to something as
simple as setting up the table for
breakfasts finally my last tip is to
move one of your morning habits into
your night routine if you have an
already heavily packed morning I think
it's very troublesome to overburden
yourself with habits even if you're
trying to achieve the perfect morning
routine for instance beforehand before I
had all this work I used to spend some
time in the morning reading a novel I
quickly found out that this was taking
out precious time for me to do some
things that I actually prefer to do in
the morning like exercising and writing
my pieces so I started reading only at
night it was something that was not
impacted by low levels of energy
at night and at least I woke up in the
following morning knowing that I had
already read all the pages I wanted to
read of that particular book and that I
was now able to spend that precious time
that I was able to save doing other
things that I felt were more importance
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