Hello and welcome back to the Sad to Savage podcast. I'm your host, Shelby Sacco Spinnick, and in today's

episode, I'm teaching you guys how to do a nighttime routine for beginners. We are going to follow three

easy steps and build a 20-minute nighttime routine. Right now, we're in the middle of a little

reactive to routine series, and I'm having so much fun because I love routines. I love habits.

Obviously, I've structured my entire life around both. But let's jump right in. I love a nighttime

routine so much. I talk about it all the time, but this was the hardest habit I have ever had.

It is really my like problem area, but so beneficial to sit and focus. When it comes to habits

and changing your life, every single person is going to excel and like struggle in different

areas just based on themselves and their experiences, their upbringing, their lives,

who they are, where they look. Like there's so much that goes into it. Nighttime routine for me

was just that thing because of the unique

experience of being one of six kids and being shipped to the basement at nine years old.

So because I never had a nighttime routine, I never had structure around nighttimes, I never had

bedtime. When I went to create those things for myself, however many 15 years later, I really,

really struggled and it took me time. I started with a beginner's routine and that is what we're going to learn now. Right now my nighttime routine is about an hour long. Sometimes it's only 30 minutes if I don't have like a lot of cleaning, which I always have actually a lot of cleaning or if I don't have any laundry. And sometimes it's like an hour and a half. If I do have a lot of cleaning and a lot of laundry, but my nighttime routine is the thing that

sets me up for success every single night for every single morning. Life really in my

perspective goes in a circle. If you prepare at night, you will set yourself up for success in the morning.

If you want a good morning, you have to have a good night.

Like, they go hand in hand.

And I think sometimes we forget or we don't realize that if we want to change one area of our lives,

other little little things are connected.

And we can look at those areas to really help ourselves out.

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