Latest / Mental Per4mance Daily with Adam Rutz / Your PM Routine
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- Adam Rutz: Your PM routine should be the hard stop that tells your mind and body work is over, recovery starts now. A lot of elite performers are really good at turning work on, but the harder skill is learning how to turn it off. Because if your mind is still answering emails, replaying mistakes, or worrying about everything you have to get done, then physically you might be home, but mentally you're still in work mode. That's why I believe one of the best transitions into your PM routine is Plan tomorrow tonight. So before you shut work down, look at tomorrow. Write out your most important tasks, your MITs, know what your priorities are, know what needs to get done. And once that's finished, give yourself complete permission to be done. Close the computer, take a shower, or at least change your clothes, change your mindset. Kind of like Superman taking off the cape and going back to being Clark Kent. You're moving from output mode into recovery mode. And that recovery time is so crucial. Make sure you're spending intentional time with your family or being able to check in with those you love. Eat a nutritious dinner, do some mobility or recovery work if your body needs it. But most importantly, stop carrying the workday into the entire night because your PM routine should be helping you prepare for one of the most important parts of performance, sleep. I like finishing the night with a simple wind-down structure. No food about three hours before bed. Start limiting liquids about two hours before bed. And then no screens that final hour. Use that last part of the night to read, journal, meditate, or just allow your mind to slow down. You don't need to squeeze more productivity out of every waking minute. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is recover because tomorrow's performance starts tonight. So plan tomorrow. Shut the workday down. Be present, recover, and put yourself in position to wake up ready to compete again. Mindset, process, discipline, execution, that's mental performance daily.