Getting away from the routine
Learnings from the past on how to reset daily routines for a balanced future
Breaking out of a routine is almost as hard as thinking out of the box. Some of us get a sudden realization that we have been in a monotonous routine for quite a long time and the burnout is real.
We worry a lot about not having time for the enormous amount of great things we seek to do in our life. Worrying is just the second hardship, self-guilt for not finding the time to do the things we love is the first and most difficult feeling.
It is not always that we get to the awareness of what causes this hardship. Sometimes it’s procrastination, or we are just exhausted. The reasons are quite interesting to think about, we are performing several activities in a day and we’re playing it on repeat.
Some of the old fashioned ways to break the routine
- Change the content or shape of some of these activities,
- Add some colors at the end of the day by adding a new activity,
- Believe weekends are part of breaking the routine, sadly every weekend is on repeat too.
The deep-rooted issue is that we fail to break the routine and continue to be on repeat. Let’s keep all the problems away for a second, how do we overcome them? Do we not do some of the activities on the routine? Kind of not the intention here but we can aim to do things at different times. For example, we don’t need to have breakfast every day?
That sucks and ain’t my thing. I need breakfast, so what do we do?
Have breakfast a little earlier than our brain expects? Maybe...
Add in some of the things you love and don't find time for, into the routine. For example, you need to walk or do 3 exercises 2 sets each and this requires a certain amount of time, can we squeeze this in unexpectedly and disrupt the routine? I like this one especially because we don’t plan for this, but it requires an intentional effort. How about finishing a chapter of a book you’re trying to read? These are activities that our brain doesn't expect as part of the routine but we intentionally push them manually and unexpectedly that way disrupting the routine.
How do you think this small intentional act would impact the overall outcome?
Daily add-ons at an absolutely unplanned time and fashion not only disrupts the routine but also in a long term get’s you to accomplish certain goals you never imagined you could.
Slowly I am thinking, where did all that self-guilt go away?
