Let Me De-Influence You: Lauryn Bosstick On What To Stop Buying, Doing & Wasting Your Time On

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Lauryn Bosstick (0:15)

I spent the weekend cleaning out anything and everything that was no longer serving me. My sister Mimi came into my closet the other day, yesterday, and she was like, Oh my God, it feels so fresh in here. I gave away so many pieces of clothing. I think I sold about 200 pieces. I gave about 100 pieces away, and I am starting fresh, and I am edited down. Everything is edited down. So while I was doing this, and while I was cleaning out my closet, and my sock drawer, and my workout clothes, and going through literally everything I own, I realized that I am passionate about doing an episode on de-influencing. Obviously, I have been part of the influencing situation. I have influenced a lot of different supplements, clothes, Amazon items, things to buy, but I think I am at a point in my life, and I know a lot of you guys are, where there's something really alluring about discernment, and being edited down, and being really picky, and thoughtful, and intentional about what you allow in your space in your life. And I don't know if it's just becoming a mom, or getting older, but I am just getting more and more particular about what I allow in my ether. So this episode is going to be about less, okay? We've reached peak more. There's a lot of more. More supplements, more skincare, more products, more morning routines, more beauty, more clothes. It's just like a lot of stuff. And again, I've participated in this, but I think I am about restraint lately, okay? I think making my life better has to do with less, less, less.

So this episode is going to be things that I have curated, that I have gotten rid of, and mindset shifts around buying.

Because I think the real luxury is having less, and having things that you really love, that you really want in your energetic field, if we're getting woo-woo. Emily, our project coordinator, and Carson, our producer, they're both here and they're gonna sort of give us some notes to go off of. Let's start with the 27 step morning routine. Listen, I love a morning routine. A morning routine sets up the tone of my day. I'm very passionate about this. If you have followed along for a long time, you know that mornings are sacred to me. They're important. But when you have children, you have to be malleable and flexible within your routines. So what I have done with my mornings with three kids is I have set up systems to be able to pivot in the morning. I don't get to wake up and meditate every single morning like I used to before kids. But if I happen to wake up before my kids, I intuitively will wake up, go downstairs, lay on my red light bed and meditate for 20 minutes before they wake up. Does that happen every day? No. We're flexible. Something I always do that I go to is when I am in the kitchen helping to make breakfast, I will simultaneously make myself an electrolyte, lemon, hydrogen water. I have all of these things in my drawer ready to go.

My body knows I do it. I crave it before coffee. It's just something that I do.

I like a coffee in the morning. Sometimes I'm drinking it while I'm running out the door. Sometimes I'm not, but it's the same coffee every single day. I love to walk with the baby in the morning. Sometimes it's all my kids are on a walk with my husband, or sometimes it's just the baby and I. But the point is, is it's flexible and it's not rigid. So what I would say is if you're overwhelmed by all of these morning routines, just have a toolbox of things that you like to do and go with the flexibility of your day. It doesn't have to be so crazy. Would I love to cold plunge sauna every morning? Sure. Is that happening? No. But on days when I do get 30 minutes to myself, I know that that's an option. What I've done that's really helped is I really habit stack it. So I wake up, I'll bring the Daily Stoic outside and sit on the porch and put my feet on the grass while my kids are running around. They'll come outside, we're getting sunlight, we're grounding, I'm reading Stoicism. It's like hitting those things. But it's not rigid. If that doesn't happen, I'm not going to lose my mind. So what I would tell you about the morning routine to de-influence you from a 17-step morning routine is have tools that you love in your toolbox that you go to, but have a malleable energy around it.