A routine is boring. Now that, that is out of the way, let me go on to the good of it.
A routine is centering.
A routine is calming.
A routine is productive.
A routine is predictive.
A routine is mind memory.
and more...
Routine is a challenge to me. I love sleeping till my body decides it has had enough sleep. I like to follow my mind and work, read, play, stare, day dream at will. I like the freedom I have and I extend that freedom to my thoughts, my time and my mind.
I don't even wear a watch. I find it irritating, like a leash, actually worse, like a master that I need to keep looking at for approval. I used to feel the same way about 'routines'.
wake up @ X
shit, shave, smoke & s#$z5 @ Y
get ready @ Z
and on and on the list used to go, till I quit a job and went rogue.
For the last 10 years I have stubbornly refused to be tied down to a routine. I experimented with part routines, like for 4 hours a day, or for certain days of the week, but my travel and penchant for giving up on hard work kind of brought all that to naught.
Only, recently, I have found a routine and with it, I must confess a rhythm. I wake up without an external stimuli (alarm, bell, screams, sirens etc), I drink my tea, read my paper, do the necessities and sit down to write. It comes naturally, without an extra effort, without having to put down a lot in terms to making it happen. it happens as routine.
It is calming, because somehow I know the next step, the next hour. I still take meetings, handle situations, but I know I have accomplished some things before I spend the day fire fighting.
The mind just remembers what it was supposed to do where. I sit at the table, get the computer fired up and everything else happens without an effort. My writing music comes on, the white (imagine) page I like to write on covers my entire screen and an Idea will be born.
The fingers will type, since they know they must. The arrangements of the alphabet do not matter, they move in tandem with my thoughts, what matters is that they move effortlessly, like they know they must, like they know its time.
I still don't wear a watch, but rather set alarms. I define how much time I should work on something and set up an alarm to remind me it is time. I may choose to continue working on that much longer, but that is a conscious choice. I may finish earlier, and then I reward myself.
I am still lazy, but the routine helps me but removing a lot of my mental inertia. I do not need to fight with myself. I like watching the sunset from my balcony, but it happens because I walk out from my work room to see the day end. I am at my desk, till that sky turns a glorious hue and then I know, its time.
Its natural, and it mirrors nature.
Set up a routine for yourself and you will see miracles unfold as if on schedule!
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