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.

Here are 4 tips to start tending your routines in rough times.

1. Watch your posture for self-confidence

Are you a wedge between you and your:

• Daily routine?
• Happiness?
• Existence?

Yup, same.

Until I was told about self-confidence, keeping up with routines seemed boring-like. Had I known that self-confidence is one of the factors that help assemble our broken routines, I would have simply not wasted 3 years of my life.

Definition: “Self-confidence” is a formula that helps to stay true to your routine. When you know, you’re enough and going in the right direction. Nothing can stop you.

Gripping by difficult routines gets easier if you appreciate yourself every day before going to sleep and after waking up, according to Benjamin P. Hardy.

Spend 10 minutes (each day) to become more confident about goals ahead of the day. Satisfying yourself that you’re trying and doing it enough helps build strong muscles.

Further, Benjamin suggests a few things you can do in these 10 minutes to lift your self-confidence:

• Report and account to yourself about the day.
• Be completely honest and vulnerable with yourself.
• Pull out your journal and simply report to yourself about your day (before or ahead).

2. Plant the pause

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation — Plato.

Apart from this quote, many entrepreneurs and business owners practice a “play” method daily. So what’s that?

Unlike us working the whole day like robots, Dr. William S. Helton, a professor at George Mason University, suggests people who take short breaks are more productive than people who don’t.

Seems like small breaks fuel our brain. It adds more (dimension) to our existing routines and helps get us a reflection on things we’ve already achieved.

Of course, there should be a break where you stop, access your growth for the day, and notice how much you’ve achieved. Downtime periods like these avoid the lackluster outcomes.

Work-life balance is essential when following a routine.

Since we took a break and had fun, there’s no excuse left to delay the work. Anyone can choose to take breaks easily: using a timer, coffee chat, or scheduling appointments.

3. Focus on tiny fixes

Commit to band-aid problems as you move forward.

Our mind is not a road where we can move past problems in the hope of never seeing them back. Yes, comprising our pain makes it hard to continue the routines.

Suppose: You’re working with a client for a new book. Demands come flying from the clients like unlimited proofreading and extra words. You placed a palm upon your heart and assured you’ll make it to the end and grab the money, and it’s never going to matter again. But the client is tough.

Despite fixing the problems, you constantly comprised, now it’s too difficult to manage.

Maintain an emotional equilibrium, says Daniel Goleman. Figure out the loopholes in your routines and cover them with solutions.

Not all problems are to solve, but it limits the trouble.

The least you can do is write your problems down on paper. Allow your mind to think of tiny tweaks to fix the cracks.

4. Take action. Don’t mope

Grab a cup of your favorite hot beverage and have some “me-time.”

Refresh your mind when you stand up for yourself, take action, and make yourself happy. “Later” a term is not usually appreciated when in the process of self-growth.

If you have a kink in your life — point out and pluck it. Take necessary actions where there is a problem. The longer you wait for a problem to solve on its own, the easier you make yourself to quit.

Aside from actually trying to cope with taking action, here are a few things you can do now:

• Break steps into smaller goals
• Know your limits
• Ask for help
• [Insert one here]

When you don’t allow yourself to fuss about quitting, you become more productive than ever. It improves your routine and helps to keep up with self confide.

So if something is bothering you, solve it now!

Bottom line:

Get your day off and write down the daily rituals you want to follow. Select the 3 goals you think are achievable and stick to them.

For me it:

• Writing
• Cleaning
• Studying

I took responsibility for writing these down on a paper pad and stick to my fridge. Now it constantly reminds me about my daily goals, both short and long term.

Start small. Don’t fill up our basket with routines that overwhelm you. Be happy.

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