Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 240th episode of the simple sophisticated on this last day of

2018. I am very excited for 2019 but I also am so thankful for what this year has

enabled me to experience and share with you here on the podcast on the blog and so many different other and episodes of the first three seasons of this podcast. We are currently in season five and

the previous two weeks I shared the top episode from season one and then last week

which would be episode 239 I shared the top episode of season

two. Today I'm sharing in the top episode of season three and I specifically

chose this one because it was in the top five because as we're starting the new year

I think a lot of us are trying to figure out how to make simple changes that can make a great difference in the quality of our lives.

Now the top episode that I'm going to share today is episode 164 titled The Importance of a Daily Routine and How to Create One You Love.

Now this is something I drilled down in and much more specificity in my new book

Living the Simply Luxurious Life, Making Your Every Day's Extraordinary. specificity in my new book, living the simply luxurious life, making your

everyday extraordinary and becoming your best self. But this is a great

introduction into what you're going to find in the book. So I want to share that

with you because with these seven aspects of

cultivating a daily routine that we sincerely enjoy when we wake up in the morning

which by the way I was reading an article yesterday no I was reading a book yesterday that I'm picking up

that I picked up in preparation for beginning 2019's podcast episodes and it spoke about the power of being a

morning person with regards to the power being how it affects our lives and one

little simple thing he shared was that when we enjoy our days, when we enjoy the

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