“Own Your Morning will guide you to create personalized daily rituals that center you, energize you, and give you the power to fully show up for your day.” 
—Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Think Like a Monk and host of the On Purpose podcast

Rise and truly shine with a life-changing new morning routine. Find clarity and happiness with this start-your-day plan that prioritizes your wellness and life goals.

Good days start with good mornings and Editor-in-Chief of Women’s Health Liz Baker Plosser believes there's no cookie cutter morning ritual that will lead you to success. Instead she advocates that your a.m. routine should reflect what matters most to you.
 
Own Your Morning starts with easy prompts to help you identify your core values—the way you want to spend your energy, time, and resources. Once you've figured out the elements of your personal perfect morning, you'll find proven insights from wellness experts and personal anecdotes from Liz to help you reimagine your a.m. habits to benefit your physical and mental health, focus your energy, enhance your productivity, and make the most of your day from the moment you wake up.
 
Whether you want to amp up a killer workout (sweat changes everything!), tap into the power of meditation (Jay Shetty shares his go-to meditation practice), create mini-moments of connectivity with loved ones (such as creating emoji shorthand in your group chat), or fuel your a.m. awesomeness with a healthy breakfast (including a few recipes!), these easy-to-implement strategies will help you set a morning routine unique to you.

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People ask me all the time, “How do you start your day with so much energy and enthusiasm? Where do you find that fire to get after it?” My passion for mornings begins with the knowledge that how I start my day is exactly how I’ll live my day. Once you believe that, like I do, you’ll do whatever it takes to own your morning.
 
The truth is, I was not born this way. My journey to becoming a morning person reminds me of lifting weights at the gym: The more you flex a muscle, the stronger it becomes. I’m mostly a happy person (phew). But the reality is that I am not a superwoman.…I just play one on TV (or more accurately, on my Instagram account!).
 
Kicking my day off right enables me to give my best effort in each hour that follows. So I am disciplined about my mornings and take care of myself the way I would my three kiddos—boy-girl twins Charlie and Lucy, and their little brother, George.
 
For example, imagine your child has a soccer game tomorrow morning. Would you let him stay up late watching movies? No way! He’d be rubbing his eyes and weepy from fatigue before the game. Would you walk him out the front door without a healthy breakfast? Absolutely not. He’d have a stomachache from hunger pains. What if you forgo the jacket or sweatpants? Good luck actually making it to soccer if he’s cold and uncomfy!
 
The point is: You’d anticipate everything he needs to feel his best out there…and to minimize the chance of a meltdown along the way. I’ve learned over time that I am basically a toddler in an adult woman’s body. If I’m cold, I’m cranky. If I don’t get enough sleep, I’m oversensitive. If I’m hungry, I can’t hustle. So I anticipate everything I need to tee up an awesome a.m.
 
This book is the blueprint to making the most—whatever that means to you—of those first few hours and minutes of your day. In chapters one and two, you'll identify your core values: the ways you spend your energy, time, and resources.
 
Once you’re clear on your values, you’ll leverage them to align your morning routine with your goals, hopes, and dreams. The remaining chapters are filled with science-backed suggestions from researchers, doctors, athletes, engineers, actors, poets, and the editors of Women’s Health for how to do just that. So feel free to read this book choose-your-own-adventure style. Or soak it all up. It’s your journey.
 
But any healthy choice you make is good. So congrats on a very excellent one: reading this book! It means you’re already improving your well-being and on the way to owning your morning.