Today's episode is perfect for the new year because it's all about healthy habits.

Honestly though, there's never a bad time to think about developing healthier habits.

So whether you're listening on December 26th of 2018 or you're listening sometime in the summer

of 2020, today I'll share with you my most important habits.

Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity fitness trainer,

and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

Today's kind of an update. I've done a couple of episodes in the past where I've talked about my

morning routine and I've talked about habits and depth. In fact, if you go back through the

Shaline Show archives, you'll see that that's a common theme. I mean, I regularly talk about habits

because habits make your life easier. A habit is something that makes it less necessary for you

to rely on motivation and discipline. If you have a habit, it becomes mindless. Like you just do it.

You just do it because you're looking forward to the way that you're going to feel. And that's

really important. Today's episode, what I'm going to share with you, isn't how to develop habits,

but the habits that I've developed that I believe, well, I'm positive, help me to feel normal,

help me stand track, and they make it so that I don't have to be as disciplined or as motivated.

I don't have to rely on motivation and discipline because I have these habits.

While most people start with their morning routine, what I'd like to do is talk to you about my

bedtime routine because I really believe my very productive morning has become so because I've

done a much better job of developing evening or bedtime habits. Okay, so let's start there.

Once I decide I'm ready to go to bed, which is usually it depends. Like I'm not going to tell you

I have a specific bedtime, but by about nine o'clock, I start getting ready and headed in that direction.

And I start some of these routines that I'm going to share with you now. First is I decide what

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