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4 Ways To Clutch the Routine Basket When Everything Is Falling Apart
How to build routines that work for you, even when life gets rough
I am a highly sensitive person. I take this label wholeheartedly.
Guess what…
Nobody other than me comes in the way of the gravy train. Life shows me a bed full of roses, but I tend to shift my gaze to the other side of thorns and bushes.
Still, I manage to stick to a schedule — a routine I can call my own. But if anything bad happens, my urge to continue the routine falls to the wayside. Every day becomes a disaster. If I follow the routine, I feel bored. If I don’t, I feel bad.
According to Jory MacKay, making routines and actually fulfilling them are two different hobbies. Unlikely, not all of us have both qualities in us.
Persistence doesn’t help in most cases. That’s because some routines are never made for us. It doesn’t fit us like a glove.
If you really care about focusing on a routine ritual, you have to own the setbacks and learn from them. There’s no reason you should give up on the routine you think you might love. Some touches and fixes, and you’ll be ready to follow your routine smoothly.
