Episode 192: How can you really switch off? The rituals that have helped me
It's the small steps that we do every single day, the small acts that we turn into habits that then create the rest of our lives. In today's episode, Fiona shares her seven rituals that have helped her in her business. Tune in!
Topics discussed in this episode:
Introduction
Marketing For Your Small Business
Seven rituals of Fiona
Benefits of having rituals
Conclusion
Get in touch with My Daily Business Coach
Resources and Recommendations mentioned in this episode:
Brie and Bell
Marre
Paul Dara
Being Modern
Joe
Yricka
And I think that's something that a lot of small business owners crave, we crave space. We crave space to think. We crave space to do our work. We crave space to consider our next move. We create space to review. What's working, what's not working. And it can be something that we don't feel like we have enough of. And I definitely feel like there's seven points that I'm gonna go through that have really created that for myself. So I hope that at least one of them might create that for you.
Hello and welcome to episode 192 of the My Daily Business Coach podcast. My name is Fiona Killackey and I am so appreciative of your time. I don't know how long this one will be, maybe 40 minutes or so. And if you are somebody who kind of needs to speed through things because maybe, I don't know, you're having a commute right now, and you've only got 20 minutes and you wanna get all the goodness in, then just feel free to turn this to one and a half speed. That is often how I listen to podcasts, Audiobooks, or anything else. And if you've got the time, just listen to it at normal speed. I tend to talk fast anyway, so maybe it's not gonna be suitable for everyone, but today I am gonna take you through some really important things that could really change your life.
I know that might sound like a huge claim, but they have definitely changed mine. And they've definitely changed some lives of the clients that I'm lucky enough to work with. So before I get stuck into that, I wanted to remind you that marketing for your small business course and coaching program is available to join. Now, we'll be kicking that off on the 26th of April. That is the marketing for your small business course, which is always available. You can buy that anytime. That's an online course, but this is a coaching component. So you have the course and you work through that in your own time. And then you come to nine one-hour, live coaching sessions, every single Tuesday for nine weeks from the 26th of April. And of course, we have people from all over the world that take part in that you don't have to be in Australia.
You do have to be available at 9:30 Australian Melbourne time, but we also have people who buy into it. And then just send us questions to answer in between the sessions which we answer on the live calls, and then they watch the replay. So if you're interested in that, definitely check out marketingforyoursmallbusiness.com or you can check out mydailybusinesscoach.com/marketing. And I thought it would actually just share a testimonial that came through from somebody who went through the last round. I think it was the last round, or maybe the round before of marketing for your small business course and coaching program. So they said marketing has eluded us for so long. We have tried so many things and nothing's worked and we just come out more confused than ever doing marketing for your small business was the only time it actually all clicked.
There were just so many light bulb moments throughout the course for us and our business we've come out of the course and the coaching program, knowing exactly which direction we need to hit which has not happened in the five years that we have been in business, the course and the coaching program crave me this renewed sort of passion for our business like it's actually a really awesome business. And for the first time, in a bunch of years, we are super excited about what we can do with our marketing. So that was from the lovely Brie and bell at the Windsor Workshop. So if you are interested in that, make sure you apply online, you can do that at marketingforyoursmallbusiness.com or like I said before, mydailybusinesscoach.com/marketing. And the other thing that I wanted to mention before I get stuck into today's coaching episode is just to pay my respects to the elders, past, present, and emerging of The Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. And they are the owners and custodians on this beautiful land on which I work and record this podcast. So I pay my respects to the elders, past, present, and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. All right, let's get into today's coaching episode.
Like I said, at the start of this, this could be life-changing. And I know that sounds so big to say, but these small things are often what changes us in our lives. It's the small steps that we do every single day, the small acts that we turn into habits that then create the rest of our lives. So I wanted to share with you seven rituals that have helped me in my business. So I know that I often hear people saying, you could do a lot of things or you're quite positive. I'm sure my husband would say that I'm not positive all the time, but I definitely have small things that I've created in my day to allow me time to slow down, to allow me time to create, and understand what is most important.
And I just thought I'd share some of those today. I was on a recent call with just the loveliest clients, this wonderful couple. And I was talking about one of these to them. And I thought you know what? I should share this with a wider audience as well. So these are in no particular order, but they're things that I pretty much do. I'm just looking at the list that I've written. I would say pretty much every day, definitely every Workday, but they've all come into my life in different parts. And usually, because I got to a point where I was like, I'm feeling exhausted or I'm feeling overwhelmed, or there has to be a different way of doing this. And so I created a habit, I guess, of doing them, which have now turned into rituals that I really enjoy doing, I must say.
And none of these are things that I feel like a chore to me. And they're things that sort of add positivity and spaciousness into my day. And I think that's something that a lot of small business owners crave, we crave space, we crave space to think we crave space to do our work. We crave space to consider our next move. We create space to review what's working, and what's not working. And it can be something that we don't feel like we have enough of. And I definitely feel like these seven points that I'm gonna go through have really created that for myself. So I hope that at least one of them might create that for you as well. And if you're listening to this and thinking, “I wanted to take note,” or I want to capture that you can find the full show notes over at mydailybusinesscoach.com/podcast/192 for this is episode 192.
But if you just go to mydailybusinesscoach.com, you'll see the podcast in the top navigation, click that, and you'll find the show notes for all of the episodes. So in no particular order, the kind of rituals that have really helped me find spaciousness and find purpose, I think sometimes, and allow me to just slow down in business in no particular order. The first one is my morning walk, so I am lucky enough to live in the beautiful North Warrandyte outside of Melbourne, just outside. I mean, we are still, we're still a suburb in Melbourne. Sometimes my friends are like, when are you coming to the city again? If you come in a few months, I'm like, it's 24 kilometers, guys. It's not like I live in regional Victoria, but I live in a beautiful area.
North Warrandyte this is our seventh year since we moved to this area. And it is absolutely beautiful. I'm literally talking to you now, as I look out on gum trees and I'm watching little rabbits hop around, be bunnies, and look really cute. There are birds, there are cockatoos flying over. I dunno if you've been able to hear those, but it's just a beautiful area. And one of the things I've always loved walking, it's been something that I've done so much in my life. Sometimes out of necessity. I went to school an hour and a half away from where I lived. So I'd walk in the morning to the bus stop. Or before that bus, that bus route actually came in my last half of high school. So before that, I used to walk for half an hour to the train station. And it was just constant walks early in the morning, especially when I worked in cafes again where they were not near me.
And there was a lot of walking I've once walked home. I couldn't afford the cab drive after I went clubbing. So that was really fun. I think I walked for like an hour and a half at like 2:00 AM in the morning, not so fun really, but usually, my walks are really lovely and fun. And when I lived in London, we didn't have a car for the four years that we lived there. And previous to that, I've also lived in London when in my early twenties also didn't have a car. I love walking. I love getting out and seeing a city. I love walking just around and looking at houses. I'm that type of person. And so I love my morning walk. And so I go in for a morning walk at least three to four mornings during Monday to Friday.
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And sometimes I really have to push myself, but I can say that when I am out there, it is just glorious. Like I love it. I really love it. I have sort of two or three walks that I do all the time. And one of them, I just love it. There are these two older gentlemen who walk their dogs around the same time as me. And we love it. We have a chat and they're in there, I'd say the seventies. And I just love it. It motivates me that they're up early, they're walking their dogs. We have this ritual that we all do together and I can tell the kind of where I am and how late I am or how early I am. According to one of the guys who particularly walk this dog. And it's just nice. It's nice to have a chat with people.
The other day I was walking in the evening, it was kind of raining. And I was walking along in Warrandyte and this guy walked past me and I said, “Good morning,” even though it's the evening. And he just laughed. And I said, “Oh, sorry. I mean, good afternoon.” And then he laughed even harder. And I said, “Sorry, good evening.” And then he said, “Are you having that kind of day?” And I said, “I'm totally having that kind of day.” And he was like, so am I? And we both just laughed. We were late strangers, but it was just this beautiful moment of humanity. And he was like, “have a great evening.” I was like, “thank you, you too.” And we just sort of, we were kind of going opposite ways and it's just beautiful moments like that.
That just starts you off with the best mood when you are doing that in the morning or in the evening. It's just a reminder that everyone has stuff going on and everyone has busy moments and dealing with things behind closed doors. And so it's just wonderful. I love my morning walks. If you follow me on Instagram, I'm @mydailybusinesscoach. You'll often probably see my photos from my morning walks. I'm in awe of nature all the time. And I think that's why I've chosen to live where I live. And I just love it. I think that there is nothing that can't be healed by nature. And even the most horrible times that you have in your life and I've gone through a couple of those granted, they're not like coming from a war-torn country or something to that level, but they have been hard in their own way.
And I can definitely say that just sitting in nature, watching the changing face of nature, watching birds, just looking at a tree for a while, it can just really ground you and calm you. I love the morning and seeing the sun coming up. I just love it. I love that often I go out and it's just these beautiful pink clouds over the sky. It just puts things in perspective. Similarly, I used to walk at night on Tuesday nights with a friend and I'd love just watching the stars. I'd love that we were kind of in the dark. It was kind of nice. I just love it. It's something that anyone can do anywhere it's free. Even if you live in the city, there will be places around you where you can walk. Maybe it's the beautiful architecture that's around you or maybe you walk to a friend's house and you kind of, I don't know, walk around the block or do something small, but just take that in.
So that is the first one, which is a walk in the morning. And I also have to give a shout-out to my good friend in Amsterdam, Marre from Smith Club, because she often accompanied me on my walks. Now she's in Amsterdam. So obviously she's not physically here, but we send each other messages through WhatsApp and she goes on her, walks in the middle of Amsterdam and I accompany her. And then here I am in North Warrandyte walking and listening to her and replying to her messages. Also, my lovely friend, Paul from Being Modern, Paul Dara in New Zealand often accompanies me on my walks as well. So obviously the New Zealand time difference isn't as great as Amsterdam. So we often have chats first thing in the morning, and he is also somebody who I know does a lot of morning walks. I think he just walks to this beautiful hill near where he lives and looks out in the ocean.
I mean, it is absolutely amazing what you can find and you go on a walk, even if you are not living in an area that is necessarily seen as beautiful. I used to live in a very dodgy kind of area in London. When I was 21, I couldn't afford anything else. I used to love walking around there. And it was a little scary at times maybe, but it was awesome. Like just hearing all the different people chat and watching the different people having their lives in different apartment blocks. And it's just cool. And I met a lot of people just walking randomly and like starting to chat with people. So that's the first one. The first ritual is morning walks. And I have to say, if you're listening to this and you owner area that you cannot walk for whatever reason I did actually see, I have used her myself, but I did say that there is a woman on YouTube.
I think it's called Walking with Joe. And I think I have not watched the videos, but I did see it come up. And I think she does a whole bunch of like walking videos, but you can do them in your apartment. So that could be another thing as well. Just sort of getting the body moving and getting yourself up in the morning. So that is the first ritual that really helps me in my morning walk. The second ritual is to play music. I play music a lot. I have probably talked about that a lot on this podcast. So I have all sorts of playlists and I have my chill playlist. I have my shake-it-out playlist. I have my good vibes to playlist my son who's nine, he can choose whatever song he wants in the morning. Before we go to school, he can choose one song to listen to.
And before he plays basketball he created his own basketball, pep-up list. And so I just love that he is also taking on that ritual of listening to music to help you with your mood. So I listen to music all the time. If I am about to go on stage and talk to people, I will pump up music that I feel really good in the car on the way there. Likewise, even if I'm about to have like a kind of awkward meeting with somebody, it could be personal or business. I will put on some good music. If I have to do something that's really tedious in my job, I will quite often pump up music that I love. I don't know if my neighbors could ever hear me, but quite often I'm singing while I'm doing that. And I think there's just nothing better to put you in a good mood.
I just think it's so good. So I have a written chill of probably playing music at least once a day, when we were in lockdown, we did 8:30 AM, kitchen dance-offs in my house. So I, my eldest son, and my youngest son, but my eldest son would put on whatever music and we had a playlist for that. And we would just dance and like get in this great vibe before we started our day. And here in Melbourne, we were in lockdown for two years. And he was homeschooled for a lot of that time. So it really, it took out the tediousness of like, it's another day, another Groundhog day where we're sitting here doing the same thing and kind of getting annoyed at each other. And everyone's frustrated that we were all in the same house for weeks and weeks and months on end.
And so we chop that up by putting in music, even when he first started homeschool, we kind of had this cheesy, he would go the front door and I'd put on the save by the bell music, that wake up in the morning. Maybe that's too grassy. Anyway, we would put on that music and he would like to knock on the door and I'd be like, school's ready. So music is a huge part of my life. And it's definitely something that I have often used in all sorts of ways in my business. And I use it all the time. Number three is my memo board. So I have a mini memo board. If you have been in group coaching, you might have been sent one. If you've worked with me, sometimes I've just sent randomly to people that I think could benefit from them.
It's just like a little whiteboard. And I have it on my desk at all times. I'm literally looking at it now. And usually the night before, I'll get into the ritual that this is part of in a second, but the night before I will write the three things that need to get done the next day. I just grab a whiteboard marker. And I literally I'm like 1, 2, 3, put them in. And then when I get into work the next day, or if I've got a day off the following day, I know what is number one most important. Like these three things have to get done. If nothing else gets done, those three things get done. And I think it's like $4. The one that I buy from Officeworks, I love whiteboards, I just love it.
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I also have like a paper diary and we have all sorts of like schedules and stuff, but I really love my whiteboard. I also use this for speaking gigs. I also use it when I'm running workshops. I might use it if even I'm on a coaching call, I can just put like a note to myself that then I come back to, I use it all the time. But the biggest kind of ritual that I have is that the night before I think about the next day, and I just put in those top three things that need to get done and then clean my desk and get out. And then when I come in the next time I'm working, I can clearly remind myself of these three things and the most important right now. So that's my mini memo board. Number four is my end-of-day ritual.
And this is something that I think I sent a Sunday email about, and I may have done a podcast, but I don't think that I have. And so my end-of-day ritual, I know a lot of people have early morning rituals or the start of the day, where they get up at 4:00 AM and watch the sun come up and have a green juice. And no, that sounds like I'm like taking the pee, but I know lots of people do that. And that's great if you do that. I do my morning walks. That's about as far as I go in the morning in terms of a ritual, I think I have in the past done the whole like 5:00 AM mornings and or the 5:00 AM club. I've done the miracle mornings. I've done all that stuff. I find it really hard if I'm honest with two and a half year old to get up anytime earlier than I absolutely have to.
He is a human alarm clock as is my eldest son. Who's just never slept past like 6:30 in the morning. So for me to be getting up at like 4:30 or 5:00 AM to do these rituals, it's just not realistic. I'm not gonna do it, but I do get up around 6:30 to go for my walk or at seven o'clock at the latest. So in terms of rituals, the end of the day really works for me. So that is really about separating work from my home life. So I work at home. I've always worked at home since I started this business at the end of 2015. So I choose to work at home. I love working at home. I have an office built-in out the back in the garden, which is lovely, but it does mean that I'm always at home. Whereas other people may have a commute between their office and their workspace, obviously with the pandemic.
And so many people work at home. I know a lot of people have really struggled to have a barrier between home life and work life. And I think that's really an end-of-day ritual that can come in super handy. So for me, my end-of-day ritual really starts with looking at that mini memo board that I just mentioned and kind of ticking off those three things. If I haven't ticked them off, it's about, you know, Shing them up if I can. So kind of ticking those things off my mini memo board. I then just make sure that my diary or my schedule for the next day or the next workday, that there's nothing pressing that has to be done. I also have a quick look through Asana. So Asana is the tool that I use with Yricka, who is my amazing OBM.
And that's really how we commute. We have a weekly meeting as well on Zoom every week, but I'll just check that there's nothing pressing that she needs, cuz I only work Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. So on Wednesdays, I'm off with my son and on Fridays, I'm off with my son. So definitely on Tuesdays and Thursdays, when I'm finishing the day, I will check that there's nothing urgent that she needs the next day. And then after I've done that, I will shut everything down. So I will close every app that's on my computer and I will actually shut my laptop down. I will not be like that, it's just for sleep. I'll just close the cover. I don't do that. I shut the whole thing down cuz it's gonna take me then a couple more minutes for it to restart. And it really gets me thinking like, Nope, I shut it down.
I leave it here. I don't bring it into the house. I don't go in and out during the night and kind of check things. I switch it off and put everything down. And then what I'll do is unless I'm rushing off to don't know, pick up the kids or do something, I will try wherever I can to sit. So in my office, I am lucky enough to have some chairs behind me. So if you've ever been on a call with me or seen me do an Instagram story, you may have seen that there are two chairs behind me with a lovely little table in the middle, from Coco flip, who I love and those chairs are not my work chairs. So when I put them into the office, I was like, these are not my work chairs. I have to separate work from relaxation or enjoyment.
I mean, you can have both of those at work as well, but I have my work chair, which is my desk chair and that's where I do work if I wanna be doing something else during the day. So if I wanna be journaling, if I'm calling a friend, if I'm recording a WhatsApp for my friend Marre or doing something else, I sit in those other chairs and that is the separation to me. So at the end of the day after I've shut everything down, I will often, if I don't already have one on, I will put a candle on and I'll just sit in those chairs for a bit. And I'll either do a guided meditation through the Headspace App, or I'll listen to I'll put on music from my chill playlist on Spotify, which will link to in the show notes in case I know you need some of that.
Sometimes I'll journal. Sometimes I'll literally just sit there and look at these gum trees and just think, and just sort of give myself that time between whatever's happening in the day during coaching. And sometimes it can be full-on, not full-on, in a bad way, but just like a lot of ideas, a lot of creative ideation, a lot of really hard thinking and strategy and problem-solving. And then I just sort of sit there and kind of just sort of let it all go so that I'm ready to then walk into my house and be the best mom, the best partner that I can be. Or if I'm lucky enough to go out for dinner or go to book club or do something else that I'm in the right headspace to take that on. And I'm not just going from one thing straight into another and you might be like, well, that's all very fine for you.
You must have all this time in the world. I don't, sometimes it can be five minutes and everybody has five minutes to just sit still. And if you don't have five minutes, you wanna be thinking about why don't I have five minutes just in the day, can I shut things down a little bit earlier? Can I shut that meeting down a little bit earlier? Everyone has five minutes believe me. So I'll sit there and sometimes if I'm lucky, I might have like 20 minutes, but often it's like 10 minutes, five minutes and I'll sit there and I'll think, or I'll journal or I'll do a quick meditation. And it's such a good thing. It really gets me in the right headspace. I know that my sister's friend is lovely. And she, you used to, I don't know if she's working from home or not, but she used to have like a situation where she would come home and she's got young children and a partner and everything, and she would come home and she would go straight into her room and she would take off her work clothes and she would put on like to some loungey easy clothes.
And then she would do some yoga stretches and she would spend that bit of time in her room, maybe like 10 minutes, and then she would enter and come out and join the rest of her family in the kitchen or wherever they were and be in the right headspace that I've left work behind. I've physically gotten out of those clothes. I've put on my yoga pants, I've done some stretches and now I'm in relaxation, home time mode. So there are so many ways that you can do your end-of-day ritual. But I know for me, that has really helped my signal, it's the end of the day, it's the conclusion of work and now I'm going into my house for the other part of my life. The other thing is I have a lock on this office. And so I lock the door and I have a key.
So I don't leave anything with the laptop. It is shut off. Everything is shut down and I lock the office as if you would in a normal office. And so it's very much like that is done. It's not, I'm just gonna run in and out of there all evening. So that is the end of day ritual number four, number five. And I do this quite a bit in coaching and group coaching as well. And I have to say that I was doing it with some clients. And then more recently I've just been like, you know what, I'm gonna do it with every new client, not just some clients and in group coaching, I always do it. But it's definitely something that I've been doing in my own life for so long. And I didn't know what it was.
Maybe I don't know, but I wasn't bringing it into coaching and that is just a one-minute meditation or a one-minute moment. So I have talked before about how one of my bosses, years ago had said to me, always enter a meeting with the same energy that you wanna have when you exit it. So if you are going into a presentation and you wanna feel excited and inspired at the end of it, then get into that headspace before you get into that workspace. And so the same thing happens to me. I have these like Egg Timers on my desk and I often just say to clients, all right, I don't know what you've gone through before you get Zoom call today. People are coming from all over different parts of the country from New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Mexico City.
I've had clients before from Spain, France, Germany, New York, and Arizona. And so I don't know what they've gone through before they get on this call. And so we say let go of whatever's happened today, good or bad, but just let go of all the stuff that's happened this morning or before we get onto this call, and then let's get into the right headspace to both be super present with each other. And that's really helped me always, but I think it's really helped with, to do it with call lion as well, because everyone's got a million things on their plate these days. And so if you can just take that minute. And so we literally I'll be like, Okay, let's do our minute. And people will breathe. Some people will go get a glass of water.
People will just do some deep breathing, some people stretch and it just still allows them to go, you know what? I'm gonna be really present at this moment. And for me as a coach, it allows me to park whatever I've been talking about to say to the client before them and come in really, really present. And it's just amazing what literally sitting there with your eyes closed for a minute can do to you or for you. I should say it just, it really can ground you. I know sometimes I had a really hectic morning. Maybe something's going wrong with the kids or it's been rushed or maybe I went for a walk and I don't know, it wasn't as relaxing as possible, or I don't know, just all these things. And I can sometimes rush in to get onto a Zoom call.
And it's really good to have a minute to just be like, okay, get in the headspace. And that can happen anywhere. You don't have to be in a service space. You could be a minute before you walk into your place of employment. It could be a minute before you get on the phone with somebody to just take that minute. It could be a minute before you have a meeting at work, whatever it is, we can all take one minute, 60 seconds, and get in the right headspace and have the right energy. So that's number five, my one-minute moments. Number six, and this has been a good one. I have to say that I definitely haven't been sticking to it all the time lately, but I would say there was a good two years where this happened every single night.
And I'm trying to get back to that point. And I have to say probably the last two weeks that it's definitely been happening every night, but there's definitely been parts where it hasn't. So that is the ritual of tea with my husband that happens every night. But the second part of that ritual. So my husband and I have tea together pretty much every night, some nights he goes surfing some nights. He goes to see his parents, but most nights, even if we've both been out, we have that cup of tea. And so he has sleepy time tea, and I either have licorice tea or caramel tea or sometimes the hot chocolate. And so what we do is we'll switch off the TV. If we've been watching it, if we haven't been watching it, we will just come out. I know, say I've gone to a book club or something.
We come in and we have it and we chat. And it's such a nice thing. It's really a lovely thing that we've been doing for years now to have that kind of check-in at the end of the day, without the kids there, without having to have your screens. But the second part of that is that after that, or if not before if we've been watching something, but definitely after I will plug my phone into the kitchen charger, we don't have chargers in our bedroom. So I will plug it into the kitchen. And that means it does not come to my bed with me. It does not come into the bedroom. It is not the first thing I look at in the morning, and when I've been doing that consistently, it has been so good. It's been so good because you get up in the morning.
I might go for my walk and I'm not looking at stuff for at least, I don't know, an hour, hour and a half. And yes, sometimes there'll be mornings where I'm like, I better check the app from school or check something else. But I definitely feel like I'm in a better headspace for the day. If my phone has been charging overnight in the kitchen. So it can be a really small thing. Literally just moving the charger. If you have one in your bedroom to the kitchen, to some other part of the house that you can put it on, you do not need it while you're sleeping, you can get another alarm clock if that's what you need, or depending on how big your house is, you should be able to hear your phone. If it's going off in the kitchen.
I definitely know that I can. So that is the phone in the kitchen and the tea. But the big thing, I guess, for businesses is the phone in the kitchen. So that it's not the temptation to wake up and straight away, check emails, check social media, and suddenly you are into putting out everyone else's fire, like as wasn't that quote from Ashton Kucher who said, “Emails are just other people's to-do list in your inbox.” You're not doing all of that straight away. So I love my phone in the kitchen and also it just makes sense because when I go on my walk if I want to have my phone, I want it to have no battery, which is sometimes what happens if it sits by my bed all night. And then the last one is to read and to read a business book.
Now I'm really lucky. I have group coaching and there are six books that everyone in group coaching gets. The book list is created according to the group. So we don't have the same books every single year. And so there are those six books that I have to read. And then I try to read at least another six business books. So at least one business book a month, if not more, but at least one. So that allows me to have 12 business books for the year. And I think that's a decent stint. I read a lot of non-fiction and fiction and self-help and so many other things I love reading. And so I give myself every single month, this is a book that I'm going to read and I schedule in kind of when I'm gonna do that or not necessarily schedule in, but I at least make sure that two nights a week, if I'm reading in bed every night before bed, which is 10 to be, what happens, I will read two of those nights during the week will be the business book.
And sometimes if it's really good, I will love it. And I'll just be like, yeah, every night, this week, I'm reading that book, but I have to say most of the time I'm mixing it up with fiction. So those are seven rituals that have really helped me in my business. So I'll just go through them again. Number one, a morning walk, getting out, going for a walk, just getting out into fresh air, number two, using music to really help my mood and to help me feel confident or feel excited about the day now, number three, my mini memo board, making sure that I put down the three most important things that I need to get done. Number four, having my end-of-day ritual, really allows me to separate work from evening life with my family. Number five, my one-minute moment.
So just take a one-minute moment to get really centered and get really present for whatever it is that you're about to do. Number six, putting my phone in the kitchen after having my tea chat with my husband, most of the time it's before that, I should say. And especially if we are watching something really good on Netflix, we both try to put our phones away, and sometimes friends are messaging and I'll be like, Hey, it's time for me to watch something with my husband so putting my phone away. That's been really good, putting the phone in the kitchen every night so that I don't have it. And number seven is to read at least one business book a month. So I really hope that some of those rituals resonate with you. I would love to know which are the most common or which ones you would definitely be taking up, or maybe something that you do as a ritual that you'd love to share with me, cuz it's really helped you.
I would love to hear about them. So please send me a DM @mydailybusinesscoach, or you can email us hello@mydailybusinesscoach.com. I'm sure Yricka would love to hear as well. So don't be a stranger to either of us and I'll leave it. If you want to look at any of these in text format, you can find that at mydailybusinesscoach.com/podcast/192. And just a reminder, if you are interested in joining the My Daily Business Coach, sorry, I should say marketing for your small business, which is from My Daily Business Coach, the course and live coaching program that is kicking off on the 26th of April. And you can find everything at marketingforyoursmallbusiness.com or at mydailybusinesscoach.com/marketing. Thank you so much for listening. I'll see you next time. Bye.
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