From the course: Establishing Evening Routines to Optimize the Day Ahead

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Enforce a caffeine and alcohol curfew

Enforce a caffeine and alcohol curfew

- [Man] Second thing is you've got to have a caffeine curfew. So caffeine is powerful. I mean, your listeners are going to know, like, if you're being good at your job and you're being great at what you do. I mean, let's face it. Most people nowadays, they're chasing after some caffeine. It's a nervous system stimulant, but if your nervous system's blown up at night, you can forget about high quality sleep. You can forget about a great morning the next day. So guys, set really a hard-line unbreakable curfew that your body can remove that. Pete, I don't know if you've ever done any research on this but caffeine has a half-life of about six hours for your average person, that's average. - [Pete] Mm-hm. - [Man] So there's going to be some people that has a half-life of like eight hours. That means eight hours after you drink a cup of coffee, half of the stimulant response is still going to be present there in your body.…

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