It’s hard to catch a grip on this spinning world. Even when one’s caught, it’s missed.
Recently unemployed, a chunk from my life fell out and scattered everything with it. To put this over-the-top, I bent my shoulder climbing a counter a few days ago. It doesn’t bend nice, and I won’t be able to live how I usually do for a while. When and how do I workout, clean, write, film? Things get tricky when knocked off routine, but evaluating, prioritizing, and starting help reshape life into something closer to what we’d like it to be.
How to Start.
We take a step back, evaluate each piece, and arrange what’s important. We can start small. The best thing about starting is that it’s allowed to be the worst part. It’s never the best, and if it was, we’d all have nothing to do.
Shaping life for the better begins with vision and assessment. Which things need to go? What is lacking? For me, I need to write the rules I believe in on my wall:
- No work Required After 7:00pm
- Don’t Judge Yourself at Night
- Respect Yo’self & Others
But above that, I need a new routine, a new grip on life to steady myself with.
. . . Or do I?
Is Routine Healthy?
In the aftermath of a transition, a break in the binding of routine, is creating a new one enough? Why create something, knowing it will one day fall?
Despite hesitation, routine is what we all naturally develop, so like they say about image, if you don’t carve one out, one will find you. But then again, once you take all the bad clothes out of your closet, a bad image is impossible.
BUT the same can’t go for life. Nobody can remove temptation from life. The only way to remove the bad is to replace it with good.
Navigating Routine in Life.
This year, temptation isn’t even our problem. Going to a grocery store or grabbing a morning coffee feel like walking a scraggly road. It’s uneven, changing; parts are missing now. From the day-to-day to pillars of society, everything is moving.
Especially among this, finding a new routine needs planning and adjustment. For example, until I can do upper body workouts in the morning, I do legs and core instead. With no job, To-Do lists have been carving time for me to set new habits, until they’re destroyed by full-time (online) school in the fall. 🙂
The only thing to make this all go better, to turn the world for the better, is to turn our lives the same. Discomfort invokes the spirit. When life isn’t as it was, a small moment is given to each of us, a moment to change.
Thanks for reading!
Stay fun ❤