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Creating a Routine
Creating a routine for myself has not always been my strong suit.
Over the years, I have worked in fits and starts to create a routine.
While I have achieved success, I have also managed to lose my routine along the way. This, however, is due to occurrences of change.
It’s important to remember and acknowledge that change is inevitable. Further, it’s the one and only constant in the entire Universe.
That being said, since change is inevitable, you need to adapt and make it — or it will make you.
That’s where a lot of my problem lies.
Establishing a routine has admittedly been easier the times where I held the most conventional of my jobs. Working 9–5 or somewhere in that timeframe, routine came fairly easily overall.
For example, in the mid-90s, following a distressing experience, I started going to the gym regularly. Because of where my gym was located, I went there before work — did my workout, and went to my office. This became a regular and easy to maintain routine.
As I have changed jobs, the routine changed. For a while, when I had to take an hour at lunch, I did my workout during that hour (since the gym was a short, indoor walk away). I managed to get into a routine with the gym on…
