For the longest time I was never a morning person so naturally I never had a morning routine. My “morning routine” basically consisted of me waking up, rolling out of bed, doing necessary hygiene, and going on about my day. That’s it. Nothing less and nothing more. This was my morning routine from the day I started middle school up until the day I graduated from college (that’s normal right?).

That’s a lot of years of a very simple and not very productive morning routine at all. Looking back on it now I’m not proud of it. I can understand why my morning routine was like that, but I also wished I had people in my life at the time encouraging me to do more with my mornings.

Flash forward about a year after graduating college and all that changed. I took a huge interest in the morning routine of some people in my life that I consider to be very successful and super productive during the day. At the time that this was happening was also the time when I started to take an interest in the health and wellness lifestyle, and wanted to improve my health for the better.

Little did I know that it all started with the kind of routine for yourself that you have in place the second you wake up. I would have never thought in a million years that what I did and didn’t do in the morning would have such a huge impact of what I was and was not able to accomplish during the day. It also has a ripple effect for what you are and are not able to accomplish in your life overall.

Connecting the dots on what makes their lives so amazing (in my eyes anyway) and taking advice from these people inspired me to make necessary changes in my life. I would start with my morning routine and the way I greeted the day. The main goal in the beginning was to increase my confidence, feel amazing in my own skin, have more focus and motivation during the day, and to offset any potential health problems I could eventually be at risk for as I navigated through my adult years.

Now I just want to be my happiest and healthiest self for the rest of my life. In order to get there, I had to change the way I greeted each day. I was committed to the process and the desired results so that’s exactly what I did. I no longer followed a lazy morning routine where I covered the basics and started my day. Instead, I started to take the time to really allow myself to focus and make my intention for the day clear and specific.

What’s my secret? Well today I’m going to share with you 8 morning habits that will help you have a successful day, and accomplish everything you set out to do in life overall. [Read more…]

There are so many ways we nourish our bodies without even thinking about it. Perhaps the most common ways, which probably come to mind first, are through what we eat and drink, as well as physical activities we may engage in through the day. These are things that we do on a daily basis without even thinking about.

But do you know just how much of an impact these practices are having on your overall health?

Truth be told all three of these practices can impact your overall health in various ways. Some practices may have a significantly great impact on your health, others may not. This is because our bodies are going to respond and react to certain things differently than someone else’s. This is why it’s super important to know your body and how it functions.

You don’t want to get caught up in the trap of doing things to achieve a better health just because it’s the latest trend, some celebrity you look up to is doing it, everyone you know is doing it, or simply because someone told you do to it if you wanted to reach a specific goal faster. Here’s why.

When we get down to the nitty gritty of it all there’s no right or wrong way to nourish your body. Yes, there are healthier options that may be a more ideal choice than what you may be currently doing. But again, everyone’s body responds differently to certain things. So just because it’s a healthier option doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the right option for you personally. The only way to truly know if something is right or wrong for you is for you to understand your body and what it needs to be what you want it to be.

I learned this the hard way and I want you to avoid falling into the same traps that I did. So, in today’s post I’m sharing with you a few ways you can nourish your body that don’t necessarily follow the latest health/wellness trend. [Read more…]

Once we actually begin the process of working towards them, we start out really strong. That momentum may last about a week or two, but eventually we hit a wall. Once that wall has been hit our momentum begins to slow down, and once that happens some of us just abandon ship altogether.

In the end we don’t achieve any of the goals that we set. Instead, they just get pushed back further away and becomes all the more daunting for us to work towards.

I’ve been down this road many times before. If I’m being honest it’s a very natural part of the health and wellness journey. You’d be a fool to believe that you were going to get everything right the first go round. This is because our bodies are not the only part of us that is undergoing a change.

Our minds and emotions are as well. This naturally makes your first attempt at reaching for your goals challenging because you don’t know what to expect mentally, physically, and emotionally. Whenever we are faced with something new there are two things that always happen.

In the beginning we embrace the challenge and actually look forward to being an active participant for it. Once we get a little taste of what the challenge has to offer, we get this overwhelming instinct to run for the hills because we trick ourselves into believing that at some point we will fail.

So we enter this fight or flight mode where we’d have save ourselves from failure rather than risk it for the biscuit. I’m telling you not to run, and here’s why. [Read more…]