Twice a year, Bath & Body Works pulls out all the stops and discounts holiday and everyday favorites up to 75 percent off, which new discounts throughout the week. The Bath & Body Works Semi-Annual sale for holiday 2020 is no different—actually, it might be even better. We’ve got the details on all the goods so you can game-plan your shopping trip.

Of course, deals will be online as well as in-store so if you feel safer shopping from your couch, you can still stock up on Bath & Body Works favorites. Now’s the chance to score the beloved holiday fragrances before they’re gone (until next year), as well as throwbacks including Secret Wonderland, Honeysuckle and Sensual Amber brought back just for this sale. Christmas body care will be just $4.95 and select Christmas 3-Wick Candles will be $11.95.

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For the best of the best deals, you’ll want to dig for those 75 percent off products. These include body care, candles, hand soaps and tons of non-holiday items you’ll want to use all-year round. You’ll even be able to find some best-selling fall body scare scents and ones you haven’t smelled for months. It’s basically like a rummage sale where you never know exactly what you’ll find.

The sale begins Saturday, December 26. If you’re shopping in store, don’t forget your face mask and hand sanitizer and maybe even consider going on off hours to avoid the crowds. Or, there’s always delivery! As much as we want to shop and treat ourselves this year (we deserve it), we also have to stay safe too. Set your iCal and get ready to get your haul on. Then, have big New Year zoom with friends to share exactly what you got.

Twice a year, Bath & Body Works pulls out all the stops and discounts holiday and everyday favorites up to 75 percent off, which new discounts throughout the week. The Bath & Body Works Semi-Annual sale for holiday 2020 is no different—actually, it might be even better. We’ve got the details on all the goods so you can game-plan your shopping trip.

Of course, deals will be online as well as in-store so if you feel safer shopping from your couch, you can still stock up on Bath & Body Works favorites. Now’s the chance to score the beloved holiday fragrances before they’re gone (until next year), as well as throwbacks including Secret Wonderland, Honeysuckle and Sensual Amber brought back just for this sale. Christmas body care will be just $4.95 and select Christmas 3-Wick Candles will be $11.95.

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For the best of the best deals, you’ll want to dig for those 75 percent off products. These include body care, candles, hand soaps and tons of non-holiday items you’ll want to use all-year round. You’ll even be able to find some best-selling fall body scare scents and ones you haven’t smelled for months. It’s basically like a rummage sale where you never know exactly what you’ll find.

The sale begins Saturday, December 26. If you’re shopping in store, don’t forget your face mask and hand sanitizer and maybe even consider going on off hours to avoid the crowds. Or, there’s always delivery! As much as we want to shop and treat ourselves this year (we deserve it), we also have to stay safe too. Set your iCal and get ready to get your haul on. Then, have big New Year zoom with friends to share exactly what you got.

With the rise of all the scary stats among seniors (like Alzheimer’s, loneliness, depression, divorce, and nursing home occupancy), and that’s without Covid in the picture, it’s becoming more and more difficult to lead an active, healthy, and engaged retirement lifestyle.

The media and our culture push our seniors to believe that normal aging means becoming sedentary and stagnant once you hit a certain age… which is so wrong.

In actuality, you have more control over the way you age.

According to the World Health Organization, three-quarters of your aging process depends on factors in your control, like your lifestyle and behavioral choices, and only 25% is dependent on your genes.

That’s exactly why it’s so important to be proactive – starting now – in taking control of your lifestyle habits.

So, I’ve put together these three powerful morning routine benefits, which make up concept #2 in these 3 Key Strategies for Living Your Best Retirement Life.

Benefit #1: Your Willpower Is the Strongest in the Morning

Your willpower is the highest in the morning right after you sleep. It gets used up and depleted throughout the day.

According to this Stanford Medicine article:

“The research also shows that willpower decreases over the course of the day, as your energy gets ‘spent’ on stress and self-control. This has become known as ‘the muscle model’ of willpower. Like your biceps or quadriceps the willpower ‘muscle’ can get exhausted from effort.”

And it’s also important to follow your natural circadian rhythm. According to Steve Kay, a professor of molecular and computational biology at the University of Southern California, “Disruption of circadian rhythms has been linked to such problems as diabetes, depression, dementia and obesity.”

Tip: To increase your willpower strength, meditation and exercise are two activities that can help build up grey matter in your prefrontal cortex, the decision-making part of your brain. This’ll help increase your ability to make better choices throughout the day, increasing your willpower.

Bonus Tip: If you have the time, use your willpower strength in your morning routine and work on something challenging. It’s a great time to incorporate an exercise routine, a healthy eating habit, or even an important project you’re working on.

Take advantage of your willpower being the greatest in the mornings, and work into your morning ritual something that’ll truly get you closer to your goals.

Benefit #2: Your Morning Mood Dictates the Productivity of Your Day

According to research from Ohio State University, your mood in the morning dictates how productive you are that day. The study found that “employee mood had a clear impact on performance, including both how much work employees did and how well they did it.”

If you pull it out of the working environment context and apply it to how productive you are in your personal life, this perspective shift can really help you shake up your life… in an amazing way.

If you can get your morning right, you can get your day right, which of course means… you can get your life right. You’ll make progress on things that actually matter to you, and you’ll likely be energized doing it.

Sounds simple enough, but deceptively, this isn’t the easiest thing to do.

To really succeed, you need to create a consistent routine that you use repeatedly, so it replaces your current, non-impactful habits with healthy ones.

Benefit #3: Routines and Habits Control Your Life

At least 40% of human behavior is made up of habits. According to a study by Phillippa Lally at the University College London, habits are formed for an average of 66 days and can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days to form.

Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, outlines a three-step loop that happens when we create habits:

• Cue – a trigger that tells your brain when and which habit to use.
• Routine – an activity, emotion, or behavior.
• Reward – how your brain determines if a loop is good for you or not.

Being repeatedly self-disciplined in your healthy morning routine can help you create good habits over time. You simply need the right cue to trigger them and the right reward for the aftermath, so keep in mind the sandwiching of those two steps around your morning routine.

This is why your morning routine can help create some of your best results. Otherwise, your bad habits are likely to remain.

Tip: As part of your morning routine, set a goal for yourself to make progress on a ‘good habit’ later that day. By being self-aware and setting yourself up in the morning you can be that much more intentional with your mini-goals that you want to accomplish throughout the day.

Want to take it to the next level? Find out the most effective habit to include in your morning routine in these 3 Key Strategies for Living Your Best Retirement Life.

What does your current morning routine look like? How will you switch it up to make your morning routine more effective for you? Please share you thoughts below.

Twice a year, Bath & Body Works pulls out all the stops and discounts holiday and everyday favorites up to 75 percent off, which new discounts throughout the week. The Bath & Body Works Semi-Annual sale for holiday 2020 is no different—actually, it might be even better. We’ve got the details on all the goods so you can game-plan your shopping trip.

Of course, deals will be online as well as in-store so if you feel safer shopping from your couch, you can still stock up on Bath & Body Works favorites. Now’s the chance to score the beloved holiday fragrances before they’re gone (until next year), as well as throwbacks including Secret Wonderland, Honeysuckle and Sensual Amber brought back just for this sale. Christmas body care will be just $4.95 and select Christmas 3-Wick Candles will be $11.95.

Source: Instagram

For the best of the best deals, you’ll want to dig for those 75 percent off products. These include body care, candles, hand soaps and tons of non-holiday items you’ll want to use all-year round. You’ll even be able to find some best-selling fall body scare scents and ones you haven’t smelled for months. It’s basically like a rummage sale where you never know exactly what you’ll find.

The sale begins Saturday, December 26. If you’re shopping in store, don’t forget your face mask and hand sanitizer and maybe even consider going on off hours to avoid the crowds. Or, there’s always delivery! As much as we want to shop and treat ourselves this year (we deserve it), we also have to stay safe too. Set your iCal and get ready to get your haul on. Then, have big New Year zoom with friends to share exactly what you got.

Usually, we look to Black Friday for a brand’s biggest sale of the year but Lush does things differently. On Black Friday, the retailer rolls out new products as part of the Green Friday campaign. The UK-based company’s big sale is on Boxing Day instead, which starts the day after Christmas. Lush’s Boxing Day sale for 2020 is its only big sale of the year and trust us—it’s worth the wait. 

Get 50 percent off on selected items (look for the items with the ’50 percent off’ tag online or in-store). As products fly off the shelves—and virtual shelves—Lush will continue to restock so you’ll want to check back. Holiday products and gift sets are included in the half-off sale, of course, as well as non-seasonal items like soap, shower goodies, fragrance, skincare and haircare.

Need some last-minute gifts? Here’s your chance to grab them at a discount. But don’t forget to pick up some self-care items for yourself, too. The holidays might look a little different this year but that doesn’t mean you can’t have your own celebration.

The Lush Boxing Day sale starts on December 26. Check out a few must-haves, below.

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Show Showers Gift Set

Be set with shower gel for the year, with yummy Sleepy, Yog Nog and Roasting Chestnuts on an Open Fire scents.

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Veganese Conditioner

This lightweight vegan conditioner is perfect for anyone with fine hair, including curls.

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Clean & Calm Hand Care Kit

Get your dry hands in check with hydrating 13 Soap Unlucky For Dirt and Sleepy soap, Dream Cream lotion, Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter and Tiny Hands Hands Serum.

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Jingle Bells Bath Bomb

This festive bath bomb has a gentle orange-patchouli scent.

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Once Upon a Time Body Lotion

Hydrate your body with murumuru butter and jojoba oil.