The start of a new year, a fresh start to create a life you’re passionate about. Things do not progress unless you have routine.
I’ve always been a routine and goal orientated person, but this pandemic has really influenced me to become stagnant and I truly hate where I am. I used to create routines that would motivate me to progress in life, and small tangible goals that had me moving in the right direction.
At the start of 2020 I had so many goals that I wanted to achieve and then the world fell apart, and I lost sight of them. What I can say is the pandemic taught me how to pivot, and made me release I was dreaming way too small (more to come on this). I am tired of wasting my days and living a unfulfilling life, of getting up, going to work and then getting back home too tired to do anything else.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with working a typical 9-5. As long as you are doing in something you are passionate about, or allowed to utilize skills you enjoy. But if you are stuck somewhere and you are unfulfilled, I totally understand your pain. So just recently, I decided I am going to get back to the person I always wanted to be.
So, here we go the importance of a routine. If you are like me and want to have the energy and time to do the things that will bring you joy and progress in life you must have a routine. Mine routine typically looks like this. I’m a super early riser, I take joy in knowing that my full attention and maximum energy is focused on tasks that I want to/ need to complete. The time I wake up my seem unrealistic to many, but I do tweak my wake up time based on how much I have to get done, but I’m always in bed by 9pm.
3:00am – 5:00am Wake up – workout – Time with God – Plan my day – Self study if time allows
5:00am – 5:30am Bathroom/morning Routine
5:30am – 7:30am Self study – Any projects I’m working on
7:30am – 8:00am Breakfast – leave for work
8:00am – 6:00pm Leave for work – at work – return home
6:00pm – 7:00pm decompress
7:00pm – 8:00pm self care – dinner
8:00pm – 9:00pm self study – projects wrap up from the morning
9:00pm – 3:00am sleep
This is a very rough draft of my Monday – Friday schedule, because life happens things change. Saturday and Sunday is a free for all, I do what I want when I want. This was the routine I would follow prior to the pandemic and it allowed me to complete so much before the start of my work day and made me fell very accomplished. And like I mentioned when the pandemic hit all of my hours and days meshed into one, and I felt like I was just taking it day by day, hoping to make it into the next. Honestly, people would ask ho do I have the energy to complete my 9-5 tasks since I’m up so early. The truth, since I accomplished so much I’m already on the high of I can conquer anything that it makes work fly by.
In closing, create a routine. It doesn’t have to be as early as mine, and you always have the opportunity to change your routine if it doesn’t work for you. Remember there is always time, you just have to make time.
