schedule my life and follow that schedule

The will, the drive, the sanity to keep a routine schedule has been non-existent. There has been so much changing SO fast, it’s hard to get a grip on my life and rein it in. This isn’t a complaint though. It’s good that things are shaking up. They’ve desperately needed to as I have felt quite alone and stagnant over the past year.

Now that I’m engaged, I need to start taking a lot of my goals more seriously and figure out exactly what direction to head in next. That doesn’t mean plan every last minute down to a T, but I feel like I do need to harness my weeks better so I can develope some rhyme or reason to the madness of my current day to day living.

More to come.

Now that I have full control over my abode, it’s getting SO much easier to follow my schedule and routines. I’m already seeing a huge difference.

One huge project I’m undertaking now is setting up a meal planner in my Google Calendar so I can shop more efficiently and have wonderful homecooked meals. It will save loads of money.

:D :D :D

Now that I have a place to care for and make sure is cozy and inviting, I am ready to really follow through with my routines better.

:) Going to dust off the virtual schedule calendar and start following it better. Yay!

This coming weekend will be the official move-in date! Following my initial schedule won’t be smooth right off the bat, but it will be a gazillion times easier to do now that I have my own place with a kitchen and everything! Wooo! So much easier to clean up dishes and random stuff. I am so thrilled.

So the schedule will be back in the limelight soon! With exercising added in for good measure.

This goal has been revived with me. I had an internal heart to heart with myself over the weekend.

With my sheer determination to get to Trout Lake, I felt this overwhelming need to bust ass and do something about it. I also realized that I had made a deal with myself when I took this current job.

I agreed to be at this job for 2 years while I start working towards independence with my crafting and custom reclamation business.

In order to move forward with all of this, I need to buck up and either choose to live proactively, or continue to allow my inner childish brat to let me do whatever strikes my fancy at the moment.

It’s hard when you get in that mired murky mindset. I feel like there is a tug of war between two sides of me and the one that wants a fulfilled and balanced life is trying to break through. I hope she wins.

At any rate, the schedule has been revived once more.

Last week wiped me out! It was mostly coming home, rushing to do some routines and whisking back out the door to check out apartments, grab a bite to eat, come home and try to wind down to go to sleep.. crazy..

Still erratic schedule.. hard to use the kitchen for meals… makes it hard to have a nice evening.. argh.. hard to keep the schedule like I really want to … hopefully will move soon.

Something clicked this morning. Not sure what. Don’t know if it will last. But I’m running with it while it’s here. It’s a different perspective. It’s tackling those things that somehow are deemed “not fun” in my mind. Somehow, they became desirable, because it’s part of embracing the world I wanted. All of it. Not just parts of it.

So.. I got ready like a good girl, when I woke up. The benefit was that I was up in time to go check out the Indian Grill place for the lunch buffet. Woo!

And.. I finally tackled something that I dread to deal with. Meal planning. I did it just now and I have my shopping list. Whew. It’s 7:30 and I am headed out to go get the stuff.

I plan on dealing with the god awful kitchen too. Just time to deal… but I do need a little time tonight to spend on crocheting my blanket.. Which probably wont get done this month as I had hoped. This month has been wacky wild though.

I think a person can only do so much. Right now, I feel like I’m making very good progress in my life by making some excellent fundamental changes.

I want to follow my schedule better. I think it will really help to move into a new place. This current living situation is making scheduling and routines almost impossible.

No worries. Goals aren’t always meant to be achieved immediately. I am going to kind of put this on hold. It will still live here on my list, but I’m not gonna pressure myself to make it happen just yet.

Last night was my first for realz evening after my bike ride… I wanted to really put my all in for the “follow that schedule” goal, but as I tried to do my Monday routine, it sort of backfired. The vacuum kinda flitzed out, causing more dirt to be on the floor.

Sooo.. I’m taking a deep breath and realizing that if things don’t go to plan, just breathe and try again. No big deal. Don’t need to burn out!

The nice thing is that I am actually doing this. The slightly nagging part of it is that I’m not following it to a T. It’s ok though, I’m not going to fret about it at all.

I have been able to accomplish the most important thing about this goal. That is, that when I come home I’m not in this “what should I do” mode and just do nothing. I know, for instance, that today I need to stop by the bank and the store because it’s Errand Day.

Each week I’ll keep working on getting this more refined.