I'm thinking today about rituals, how important rituals are in our lives. Our morning rituals, our evening rituals, our evening rituals, our family rituals, our religious

rituals, our community rituals. Those are the things in our lives that are customary and that we do often and

they're so important in our lives it's so important to have these rituals to ground us. I know for me when I worked

my morning ritual was different than it is now, but when I was working I would get up every

morning at 5 o'clock and I would have an hour of prayer and meditation and then an hour of yoga and that started my day off just

right I was so centered and well balanced to face whatever challenges came to me during the day.

And at night, the same thing. I would come home, have dinner around the same time,

get ready for bed, that is a ritual in and of itself,

your bedtime ritual.

What do you do to prepare your body for bed and your mind for bed to get ready to sleep?

What is your sleep ritual? What is the preparation that you go through to get to sleep every night?

Do you turn off your cell phone at least an hour or so before you go to bed?

The blue light triggers your body to stay engaged and if you

will shut the phone off and stop working,

oh my goodness, in this day and age,

you can work 24-7,

and sadly enough, too many people do. You don't have to take your work home with you anymore. It is at home. So I think

you have to have work rituals, whether you're at home or you're in an office.

What time will you begin your day and how will you begin that?

Will you begin it with a to-do list?

Well you begin it by making calls first and then doing emails, what is your work ritual?

And what time will you end the day? Make a set time to begin and end your day.

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