establish a routine

6:00 am get up. Shower, eat (bowl of cereal and piece of fruit), make lunch brush teeth, get dressed, do hair and makeup, gather stuff to take to work.

7:30 am leave the house.

7:45 – 8:00 arrive at work and get settled in

1. go through mail
2. listen to messages and return any calls
3. go through emails and answer them
4. other work

12:00 to 12:30 lunch

12:30 back to work

3:00 afternoon prayers and tea

3:30 – 4:30 finish work

4:30 – 4:45 leave work

6:00 – 6:30 dinner

8:00 write 1000-2000 words on my book

Weekly:

Sunday – pick up the slack on whatever amount of wordage is my deficit on the the 2000-word-a-day goal for the week.

Sunday – laundry. Wash it and put it away!!

Sunday – go for an hour run

Sunday – do some cleaning

Monday night – adult ed at synagogue 7:00

Tuesday night – Free. spend with family, and go for an hour run or ride bike with family

Wednesday night – Paint, read, etc. Do some hobby or work on some goal. Go for a 1/2 hour run or ride bike with family. Do some cleaning.

Thursday night – class from 6:30 to 7:30

Friday early evening – go for an hour run

Must do:

exercise
meditation
journal writing
43things.com
rememberthemilk.com

I’ll have to fit these things into my daily schedule. I’ll play around with these things and hopefully, they’ll sort themselves out into a routine on their own.

This is how my mornings will look like this week.

Wake up at 8am OR 1 full hour before my first class.
Spend up to ten mins writing in my dream journal.
Go to the roof and do ten mins of yoga.
Have breakfast and go over my to-do list.
Feed my rabbit.
Take a shower, follow skin regimen.
Prepare everything I need for the day.
Get dressed.

Well, a girl’s gotta start somewhere. Right?

For weeks now I have been printing off a blank timetable every week with the idea of planning out how I’m going to spend my time and organise my life. It’s a great idea, but unfortunately the timetable stays pretty much blank because I seem to have some sort of phobia about committing things to a particular timeslot. Of course, this leads to me not getting them done rather than leaving my time open to exciting opportunities that may possibly pop up unhampered by a filled-in timetable.

So this week, I have filled in my timetable. So far, it’s feeling good. It means that I don’t have to make decisions, and as my decisions usually result in the lazy option, less decision making is a good thing.

I think I’m getting somewhere with establishing a morning routine. Nothing amazing, but I’ve started thinking the night before about what I’ll have for breakfast and I am now making my bed before I leave. I don’t know what has prompted the bed-making, but it makes the room look much nicer. Not that the rest of the room looks that nice, with all the crap I keep on the floor, but it’s a small step in the right direction.

As for breakfast, I’m currently experimenting with porridge. I put raspberries in this morning and that was yummy. Blueberries give you purple porridge though, which is fun.

everything on my checklist for starters. i’d also like to eat breakfast and have a shower every morning. and maybe set aside some time for reading a paper or publication as well as time for a book. then there’s the chores – cooking, planning meals and grocery needs, laundry, filing, and any general cleaning that needs doing.