Michael Chernow

Nine to five was created to not only have a life of work in a condensed period of time, because eight hours is probably the right amount of time to have your focus in full throttle without diminishing returns on either end, but it also gives you an opportunity to do what life was really presented to us for, which is to love.

We are love beings.

It's really, really hard to love the people around you when you're stuck in an email chase.

So 5.30, I shut the computer every night.

I get to the, I walk to my truck, get my car.

I really, really try to decompress on the drive home right before I pull up into the house.

And this is something that I've done.

And I'll tell this story because this is like a really, really very pertinent to this conversation.

Right before I get to the house, I create a buffer for myself because the energy that I have, I have a lot of energy and I'm a hard charging guy, very much like you.

There's a difference in the energy between being a hard charging dad and a hard charging business person.

My hard charging business person is the opposite of the energy that I want to introduce to my kids as a hard charging dad.

As a hard charging dad, it's all love.

As a hard charging business person, it's discipline, right?

And so I get to my house at about 5.55, dinner's on the table every single night at six.

My wife is incredibly punctual.

It's my favorite part of the day, sitting down at the dinner table with my wife and kids.

Pull the truck halfway up the driveway.

I shut the thing down.

I close my eyes and I do about three minutes of breath work.

And it'll be either box breathing or I'll do the double inhale, long exhale.