...when you first started shaving with a straight razor?

While going through my pre-shave ritual today (shower, wash face, lather, etc.) I realized that I'd gone from someone who shaved once a month or less, and thought of it as a chore, to someone who shaved almost daily, and thought of it as an enjoyable start to my day. A bit of private time to just relax and take care of myself.

I'd gone from someone who never even bothered much with any sort of face-scrub... or even thought about taking care of my face, to someone who makes sure to take the extra bit of time to use a scrub.

Somehow, shaving was way more of a hassle to me when I did it once a month, in 10 minutes, then now, when I do it daily, and take half an hour or more for the whole process.

Even stranger, since I now had a routine, of which the sole focus was taking proper care of myself in one aspect... it became childs play to extend that to also work some daily exercise into my schedule. And then after that, the obvious next step is eating better. All things that seemed like "too much of a hassle" before!

I'm sure this isn't typical of course, but for me, it seems this one thing was enough to tip the scales, as it were.

So how about the rest of you? Did your daily routine change a little? Not at all?