What does Victoria Roos Olsson do in the evening? In a Thrive Global questionnaire published November 6, 2019, the FranklinCovey leadership consultant, author and yoga instructor described a household rule and a short sequence. The family aims to switch phones off at 9 p.m. On what she called “a perfect evening,” she then does some calming yoga, has a cup of herbal tea, reads something unrelated to work and ends by writing in her journal.
Phones off at nine, for the whole household
Asked about her phone, Roos Olsson said she has “a love/hate relationship” with it. After reading about phone use, she said, she had her teenage daughters read the same material, “admittedly after first threatening them with not paying their phone bills unless they read it.” Afterwards the family agreed to aim to turn phones off at 9 p.m. and keep them away from the bed, either outside the room or far enough away that reaching one takes a few steps.
She did not frame this as a rejection of phones. In the same questionnaire, she called the phone amazing for combining work, friends and news in one place, and said that is exactly what makes it hard to put down.
Yoga, tea, a book and the journal
Her evening, as she described it, mirrors her morning. She said even 10 minutes of yoga makes a difference to her. She keeps evening reading away from management books, because evening is “winding down time,” and avoids anything that will make her head spin. The last step is the journal, where she sums up the day, “reflecting on and absorbing all the things that happened.”
The journal runs through the morning too. She said she has kept one since childhood and, in the two years before the interview, had added a morning section with three questions about priorities, wishes and gratitude.
What she notices when it slips
Asked about her warning signs, Roos Olsson said that when she is depleted, she loses her routines and gets into bad eating habits. That is her own description of a pattern, not a measure SleepStacks has checked. She also presented the evening sequence as what happens on “a perfect evening,” not as something that happens every night.
What the questionnaire cannot show
This is one written Q&A from 2019. It gives a phone-off time but no bedtime, and it does not say how often the family keeps the 9 p.m. rule or what changes when she travels for work. It describes her routine at that point, not her evenings now.
These are personal accounts, not recommendations or personalized medical advice. For another evening that ends with a journal, see Celeste Headlee. For a phone put away before its owner, see Laura Mae Martin. Read more about SleepStacks. Sources checked November 9, 2026.
Thrive Global, “The Thrive Questionnaire With Victoria Roos Olsson,” 2019-11-06