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Under no circumstances are you to commit to doing anything every day of the week.

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Any routine junkie can tell you what happens when your routine gets messed up: Your thoughts race. You get frustrated. You feel what is almost like withdrawals.

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The worries and anxieties of daily life seem to fall away when we stand next to the ocean or walk through a beautiful park.

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Forget the notion that people who love beauty and skincare are vapid or care too much about their looks. Your morning skincare routine can be the key to helping alleviate any overwhelming anxiety or stress.

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Make your routine fit your personality and life. As long as you feel uplifted and fulfilled it doesn’t matter how long it is. The key is to keep going even if you don’t feel like it.

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Fall in love with the hours and the time spent actually producing and doing. Don’t fantasize about what life will be like when you reach the goal, but maintain the sobriety of process and action.

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Things become clockwork. We reach for our phone first thing in the morning or incessantly check social media throughout the day because, well, that’s what we always do. These are habits.

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So often we blame our shitty lives on the things we willingly fill it with—our friends, our careers, our hobbies. Check your reasoning, why aren’t you trying new things?

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If we understand motivations, behaviors, and routines, we can completely overturn our daily experience.

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There are certain activities I do, or tasks I perform, that lend a gentle rhythm to the hours. Perhaps it is thirty minutes of reading, or walking up and down the hill five times, or writing five hundred words, on anything.