Yes. I hear you, grl/by. Keep at it. You got this. If it was easy, everyone would do it. YOU matter. YOU are important. YOU are necessary. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
I often spend time out with family or friends. However, sometimes I stay at home playing with my siblings. These days we spend it at home due to coronavirus.
It helps me to focus on how GOOD I feel after I do the rituals, and to ask “what does the weekend mean?” For me, the weekend is not a break from my life or my goals, so it’s not a break from my rituals. Also, I’m a person who can easily become depressed without structure, so I remind myself that if I skip, I’ll feel worse than I do the first five minutes of getting up!
I may delay certain things if I sleep in or remove them from the routine if I am doing something else. But weekends is when I get more of my routine done! It may be because I started them on a weekend versus a weekday.
I’m very good with my exercise routine. The other routine items are pretty easy to accomplish on the weekends too. Routine helps make my life feel more in control. So having that self control on the weekend is important to me.
Every weekend I try to relax and take a break of the specific routines. I always make plans to meet friends and have some fun!
I give myself a break from routine on weekends unless I’ve skipped a couple of days during the week. This week, I skipped exercise on Thursday and Friday so I’ve done it this morning and I’ll do it tomorrow instead.
I am new to this so I am still learning and building. I think the “do it immediately” upon waking approach is the one that has the biggest chance of long term success so I am keeping my commitments small but making sure I get it done. So literally 1 minute of stretching or 8 minutes of exercise. I tend to go-yo to extremes — 1 1/2 hour workout at tge gym then nothing for days. I’m trying to break that pattern.
I stay present and focus one task at a time. Start small and feel accomplished and move on to the next. For example, start with simple meditation in the morning to set intention for the day and move forward with work. Take a breather between and nourish myself with quality food.
Weekends mean more time to do your routine etc, and have fun and do stuff you wanna. Plus doing your routine frees you up to have more fun. You’ve already done what you need to and the feeling of accomplishment lets you more fully enjoy yourself and relax after. Reminding yourself of that in the morning can help, maybe including that in your alarm?
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