Your brain doesn’t stop at 9PM. It keeps reopening messages, plans, and half-finished tasks — and that’s what’s keeping you awake.

The 9PM Cutoff is a practical system for night thinkers who lie awake because the evening never fully closes. No meditation. No journaling. Just a decision cutoff, a 3-bucket sort, and a shutdown sequence that tells your brain the day is done.

What’s inside:

• The 9PM line and how to draw it once
• The 3-bucket rule: do now / schedule / defer
• The traffic light method for evening choices
• How to capture tomorrow so it stops living in your head
• A one-line closure that ends the mental replay
• Room reset sequence to remove sleep-blocking cues
• 9PM Cutoff Checklist (bonus)
• Evening Shutdown Worksheet (bonus)

Works in 14 days. Use the checklist each evening, write tomorrow’s first move in the same place every night, and the habit sets itself.

For people who are tired of lying awake thinking — not because they’re anxious, but because the evening never stopped asking for one more decision.