routine

A recent story by Sarah Hampson - Is being happy simply a matter of habit? - has me thinking about how happiness can be turned into a routine. Hampson writes that rituals and routines play an important part in creating a sense of well-being.

I've spent the last year and a half traveling pretty consistently for work, and it's been thrilling. I've been to Greece, Hong Kong, Jamaica, India, Turks & Caicos, Mexico, Spain and a whole bunch of other amazing places. I have had my favourite leather boots stained by milk fresh from a goat on a mountaintop in Crete. I have received a deep tissue massage from a former Mr. Jamaica. I have written about a seemingly endless array of beauty treatments — from thalassotherapy to chocolate body wraps. And I have expanded my eating repetoire to include snake, turtle, crickets, ant eggs, gizzard and pretty much anything else that has been waved under my nose.

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Rather watch paint dry than slog away at the same-old treadmill routine? Try one of these eight trainer-designed workouts to put the spring in your step again.