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3 Ways to Rework Your Routine If It’s Not Working For You
On an average day, I wake up before the sun rises. I have ample time to get dressed, drink a glass of water and brew my coffee. I write past daybreak without distraction and work diligently on the to-do list that I prepared the night before when I went to bed at 10 pm. What about you?
Bah! I wish! And I do wish I had this kind of day, just once a month would do, but the reality is that my day is full of distractions, some self-imposed, others not, others arguable. My evening passes by quickly, and the distractions fly in by 10 pm, I am as close to feeling like bedtime as I am to finishing that to-do list. Nowhere near.
I have had these kinds of days, and they are possible but always at the expense of something else. “Success” a diligent routine-meister would say, but there’s gotta be another way. The opportunity cost of this perfect day for me could be a last-minute inspiration dash on a story; it could be an evening out with friends, a cinema date, it could be a client deadline, it could be life.
I get it, I do, 10,000 hours and all that. I understand that an unshakeable routine is at good accumulating those hours and progress, but I’m a flawed human being and prone to distraction. Pretending otherwise is the least productive option.
