Talking and writing about morning routines has become an industry. A quick Amazon search for “morning routine” yields fifteen books on the subject, and that’s just the first two pages of results. It’s a popular subject because the gurus are right. I personally have benefited greatly by building a repetitive system around my morning routine. While morning routines draw all the attention, There’s another routine that I think is equally as important, for different reasons.

A big challenge for many of us is the transition from “work time” to “family time”. With modern tech allowing us 24 x 7 access to our jobs plus more and more people working from home, the division between work time and home time is often blurred, resulting in millions of employees taking their work home with them, or not really finishing work in the first place. It’s a major problem that causes great stress in relationships with studies showing that a marriage to a workaholic can double the chance of divorce. With the number of people working from home continuing to grow the stress the lack of divide causes on families will only get bigger.

All of this stress and the expansion of the work window drives home the importance of not only having a good morning routine, but also focusing on your evening routine.