If you have followed me for any amount of time, you know that I have always been big on having a morning routine and a quiet time and journaling.

To me, these have always been super important in my life and they ground me and anchor me.

So when I became a mom during that newborn phase of life, it's very hard to determine which way is up or down.

And the Lord taught me this simple practice.

It doesn't take a lot of time,

but it still, to this day, speak straight to my heart and it grounds me.

And it's simply focusing on one word throughout your whole day.

Music focusing on one word throughout your whole day. You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 89.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place. This is a podcast all about learning to work and play. Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place. This is a podcast

all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

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So Will and I were married for seven years before we had kids.

We got married pretty young.

I was 21.

He was 22.

And I went through this transformation during that time of starting out where I was working really late at night and then sleeping in, you know, until about eight or nine or ten,

drinking coffee and then getting along with my day to becoming a morning person during that time.

So learning to wake up early and have a quiet time kind of early in the morning, going to bed early.

And I just became really passionate about my morning routine.

I got really settled into it.

I found things that got me so excited to wake up every morning.

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