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The routines are great for you. You might even say they're great for you.

You might even say they're frosted flakes as a routine.

You might even say they're crucial and they are because they, they're game changers for almost every part of your life.

You can think of mental health, physical health, emotional health, safety and security for children. We'll get into all this.

But a repeated healthy pattern of behaviors to focus on helps us when we're off the rails into solidifiers when we feel unmoored that helps buttresses when we feel solid.

There have been countless studies. I saw one from Tel Aviv University, but there's hundreds of studies of how routines and habits and we'll get into the diff.

Basically help you reduce anxiety, help you calm yourself and just put you on a good path in life.

Which makes sense because what you're doing is creating something familiar that you can kind of bust out in times of uncertainty and give yourself familiarity like a security blanket almost.

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And there's a huge routines are having a moment you could say they're big right now.

And I think it's very appropriate that you use the word game changer because that's the kind of attention it's getting right now.

People use game changer are super into like I figuring out routines and figuring out how they're like how to perfectly optimize them, how to make them as essential as possible.

And there is some actual like research and science to this, but you said that there's a difference between habits and routines. I disagree. I know some people say no they're actually different. I think they're the exact same thing.

Yeah, I mean, you're sort of splitting hairs a bit. I found some stuff that said basically that and we should think well, we got our sources from a lot of different places. Do you know some of them?

Yeah, Northwestern Med parenting University of Iowa real simple. There is a post by a guy named Brad Stolberg. I can't remember what site I'll have to look it up, but yes, go ahead.

Good stuff though, but I did see it broken down as the differences that a habit is associated with a queue like the queue to wash your hands would be that you have just used the bathroom and handled your private parts.

And the routine exists without that queue. It's not dependent on that queue, but I'm kind of with you. It's sort of splitting hairs.

Yeah, I also think that routines are dependent on queues. I mean, we talk about them later like if you have a workout routine in the morning, your queue is waking up in the morning and putting on your exercise clothes. That's a queue.

I don't think that they can exist without queues. Because if they existed without queues, you would just suddenly randomly start like eating a healthy breakfast at like three in the morning, even though you were just sleeping a second ago. You see what I'm saying?

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