Rethink Your Morning or Evening Routine
Summer Life Edit Challenge Week Seven
Welcome to The Summer Life Edit Challenge, an 8-week series from The Life Edit! Each week, I’ll share a simple prompt or quick win designed to help you live with more clarity, ease, and spaciousness this season.
Greetings from Sweden where I’m cheering for Emilie’s soccer team and eating all the pastries. I find it so tricky to maintain any form of routine when I travel, so this week we're going to work on simplifying our morning or evening routine. The goal—to identify a minimum baseline you can realistically maintain no matter what.
Most of us have complicated routines that work perfectly when life is predictable. But what about when you're traveling, sick, overwhelmed, or just having an off day? That's when we need routines that are so simple they're almost impossible to skip.
Week Seven: Rethink Your Morning or Evening Routine
Audit your current routine:
What does your ideal morning or evening routine look like?
What actually happens on a typical day?
Which parts of your routine do you skip when you're rushed or traveling?
What are the non-negotiables that make you feel human?
Identify the minimum viable routine:
If you only had 5 minutes, what would you do?
What's the one thing that sets your day up for success?
What's the one thing that helps you wind down at night?
What can you do regardless of where you are or what's happening?
Action Steps
Pick ONE thing to commit to:
Morning examples:
SPF before you walk out the door
Drink a full glass of water before coffee
Make your bed (even if it's just pulling the covers up)
Take three deep breaths before checking your phone
Write down one thing you're grateful for
Get outside and walk for 15-minutes
Evening examples:
Wash your face before bed
Set out tomorrow's clothes
Write down three things that went well today
Plug in your phone away from your bed
Do a 2-minute tidy of your bedroom
This week:
Choose your anchor: Pick one morning OR evening habit that takes less than 3 minutes
Test it: Try it for 7 days straight, even if everything else falls apart
Travel-proof it: Make sure it works in any environment (hotel room, friend's couch, etc.)
Track it simply: Check it off on your phone or make a mark on paper
Remember: The best routine is the one you actually do. A single habit you stick to is infinitely more valuable than an elaborate routine you abandon every time life gets messy.
Your minimum baseline isn't about lowering your standards—it's about creating a foundation you can build on. For me this means committing to walking for 30-minutes a day no matter what. Once this one thing becomes automatic, you can always add more. But start with something so simple it feels almost silly to skip.
💬 READER PROMPT: Tell me in the comments: What's your one non-negotiable morning or evening habit? Or share what you're committing to this week!
On the Road: I’ll be traveling through Europe for the next three weeks - first for Emilie’s soccer tournament in Sweden (!) and then on my annual sibling trip with my brother Max. Follow along on Instagram where I’ll share my highlight reel.
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Greetings from Sweden too! Mine is my skincare routine both morning and evening. Also wanted to leave a comment saying I saw both of your books in the Design Museum Denmark in Copenhagen.
I always make the bed before breakfast and coffee and I always wash my face and read before bed for a few minutes at least. The morning habit I’m working on breaking is spending an hour reading (which involves some political doomscrolling) on Substack instead of journaling, meditation and crating my own writing. Ugh, so stuck in a rut there!