have a daily routine of meditation, sports, music and writing

well, today I’ve ticked off meditation, sports, and plenty of listening to music, but no playing. I really need to find 30 mins a day for playing as a hard routine. That will be hard. Writing, as ever for the meantime is on 43!

First let me express my intense distrust of the word “rhythm”; words without proper vowels, like words with far too many (“Raoul” in particular makes me wary) just don’t get through my “I’m OK with that” filters.

• wake up, morning toilet rituals, unload the dishwasher, boil water, all punctuated by stomping up and down the hallway in a ‘three strikes, you’re out!’ attempt to rouse children from beds
• breakfast, check email, lay loose hours vs. tasks plan for day, bathe, dress, help children find a baffling sameness of things, cycle to work
• work – realise utter folly of hours vs. tasks plan
• cycle home, shop on the way, fuss about dinner, homework/music practice/ballet/athletics (all child-related)
• stomp up and down the hallway in a reverse of the morning’s attempt
• veg-out in front of the PC with emails or You Tube or 43 Things or …
• evening toilet rituals, fall exhausted into bed

Other than meditation, sports, music and writing, what’s missing from this scenario?

I could do all these things more regular. I want to be more aware of this goal every day.

Only trying to do all four things every day makes me a lot happier – even if I don’t succeed to practise them all every day.