ESSAY

How to make your routine life interesting?

 

A routine is something that we do regularly, without questioning or planning. Once established, routines require little effort, tracking, or decision making; by definition they become a consistent part of our lives. Routines are ways of doing that don’t require much conscious “doing.” This is what makes routines such powerful levers for supporting behaviors, whether positive or negative.
Our routines can help us or impede us, increase our focus and effectiveness or increase our distractedness. The best routines include those positive distractions as meditation, mindfulness, stress breaks, and so on. Positive routines also include all the other things we can do to balance our lives: exercise to refresh our bodies, talking with those we love, reading, going on retreats. These are activities that refresh and energize.

Do you brush your teeth each morning and evening? Since there is no avoiding routines, why not create routines that are supportive, healthy, and lead toward what you want to accomplish in your life. Routines are the ways in which we take care of ourselves. Some people spend fifteen to thirty minutes at the beginning of each day meditating — just sitting, just being alive, just being with their breath. This is a basic “sharpening the saw” activity, in which we are the saw. Meditation practice is a way to slow down, look deeply, and reveal ourselves to ourselves.

Positive routines are built to exclude severe distractions — the overstimulation and overexertion, without respite or relief, that can lead to anxiety, sleeplessness, depression, and a real lack of focus. We all have routines; why not create positive ones?

Routines are the way of nature and we are part of nature . . . Routines connect us to something larger than ourselves. Paradoxically, through the structures provided by routines, we can develop flexibility because our minds are so much clearer and our bodies more refreshed. Routines can support personal growth and the transformation of old, unwanted patterns.

 So, get yourself a planner. You can buy one or simply print out free calendars online and create your own planner. Finally schedule in your daily activities or things you would like to do into your planner in an organized time line. Start from the moment you wake up to the moment you plan to fall asleep. The transition from not having structure to having will not be fast nor easy but it will be well worth it, you may even find that you will be able to time manage better and free up time for things you love to do.