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Are you struggling with sticking to your morning routine?? Or maybe you feel like you have been struggling to stick with new healthy habits that you have been trying to implement throughout your day. I GET IT! No one said that change was going to be easy! It takes intentional and conscious effort to make changes in your life for your future self. Let me give you a few tips on how to create and maintain new healthy habits!

1. Habit stacking! I want you to think about a habit that you already have in place right now. Like drinking coffee every morning. Let’s say that you want to begin to move your body every morning. To use the habit stacking method what I want you to do is to put your workout clothes next to your coffee pot before you go to bed so that every morning when you wake up and drink your coffee you see your workout clothes and it becomes much easier to move your body in the morning! Think of some habits you already have in place and begin to merge your new habits with your old habits!

2. START SMALL! Make it so simple for yourself. If you make it too complicated, you won’t ever start! Make your habits work for you and your schedule!

3. Just do something. You are in charge of your life. Where you are right now in this very moment is the sum of your habits. Change just 1 thing about your morning routine or your night routine. Start there! It doesn’t have to be these massive changes. We like to think that it’s the big changes that lead to happier and more successful lives. The truth is that it’s about the small consistent changes and decisions you make everyday. They add up!

THIS MOMENT COUNTS!

xx,

Ash

This is for all the people feeling low. Like really low. Mood is off. Vibe is off. You just don’t want to get out of bed. Well, I have a little trick for you! Music and movement will absolutely rescue you and your vibe! YUP! IT’S TIME TO MOVE TO YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC! I want you to count down from 5 and spring into action literally right now. READY?? 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… GO! Get outside. Jump around. Do some squats or pushups. Walk around the block. Do whatever you have to do and do it to your favorite song! I promise you, your mood will change.

PS – You are in control of your attitude. Today and everyday. You always have a choice.

xx,

Ash

It may seem simple, but I wanted to share with you something that my dad reminded me of the other day. He sent my family a video and the message was that this moment counts. We often forget that we are living our one precious life right now. RIGHT. NOW… & if you are reading this, you woke up today. Let me ask you something. How do you want to live the rest of your life? We will never know when our time is up in this physical world. So how do you want to live the rest of your life? My wish for you is that you take every chance you get and LIVE! You whoop it up with your family and friends. You laugh at yourself every once in a while. You dance until 2 AM and the bar is closing. You travel the world. You eat the pizza with a side of ranch (am I the only one who does this??). You take time off of work to spend it with family. You love yourself so damn hard because its the only person you have to spend the rest of your life with. You stop worrying about what other people think and you do you. You blast music in your car and sing at the top of your lungs with the windows down. You say I love you and I care about you often. I want you to JUST LIVE for you. Today and everyday. Heck – be grateful for another day. Some people didn’t get another chance.

JUST LIVE.

xx,

Ash

I think about this question a lot and I think it’s an important question to ponder! When we go about our day to day, always moving from one thing to the next, we don’t often think about how we do these things that we often take for granted. What if today was the last day you get to take your kids to soccer practice or the last day you get to spend with your parents or your sister? How would you show up differently. Would you blast your kids favorite song and dance with them in the car or tell you family you love them just because you can? What if today what the last day that you get to be in your office with your coworkers or the last day you get to workout and move your body? How would you show up differently? Would you have that hard conversation with your boss or smile when you walk into work? Would you be proud of yourself for who you are and how you show up in the world? How would things change if today was your last day ever? Let me be the one to encourage you to show up every single day like it’s your last day. Love hard. Work hard. Play hard. Be yourself. Your full, weird, funny, cheesy, beautiful self. The world needs more of you! More of your magic. Go live today like it’s your very last day and see how things change for you. Be THAT you every dang day.

xx,

Ash

1. Do something that helps you to connect to yourself. Something that helps you to get out of your head and into the present while feeling so deeply connected to your mind, body and spirit.

2. Close your eyes and get in the zone. So in the zone that you have no choice but to focus on what you are doing in that very moment. No distractions. Just you and that moment.

3. For 3-5 minutes, while you’re doing that thing and you’re so in the zone, visualize your most magnificent self. What do you look like? What kind of car do you drive? What do you enjoy doing? What kind if career do you? Your most magnificent and fabulous future. YOUR future. Picture it all and go there. Go big.

When you take the time to sit with yourself and bring to life in your mind the future that you want for yourself, you are so much more likely to bring this future you to life. Visit this future you every single day.

Cheers to your best dang self. This moment counts.

xx,

Ash