Building A Plan Of Routine Awesomeness

I wish I had some exciting stuff to talk about but unfortunately the sickness that started last week lasted up until now. I think I’m finally almost over it but not completely.  Because of that I don’t have much to talk about unless you would like me to recap all six seasons of The Office that I watched during my sick time. Life in New Zealand when you are sick is not that exciting, but I’m going to show you around my life here anyway.

This week on my facebook page, Lisa Johnson left me a comment: It’s great watching you go through the process of “starting over” gets to remind everyone how hard it can be to establish a routine …

So true.  Building routine is hard.

Before moving I spent three weeks roadtripping, a month living in Oregon, and another week on the road before that. Routine was not part of my daily life for a while and after two months of that I was literally craving the ability to build some routine into my life.  But now that I’m settled in one place I’m realizing building routines into your life can be hard. Apparently a lot of routines get built around your work schedule and I don’t have a typical job here (although I’m looking for a part time job!). Without that huge anchor to build around I’m floudering a bit in developing some routine.

For instance, I still haven’t unpacked.

I justify it because a) I’ve been sick and b) we are moving to a new place in a month or so.

And I’m using the couch as my “office”:

Yes, that’s a Jamie Oliver cookbook under the glue and mug. I like it. He’s teaching me stuff.

And I use Kepa’s weight bench as my counter space because it’s in front of the mirror:

I’m a bad girlfriend fiance… I probably should let him use the weight bench, huh?

And the mirror is my favorite thing but it’s so new we haven’t even taken the cardboard off the edges:

I haven’t completely settled in here and carved out space for myself.

There is no good routine to my days yet but I’m hoping to change that. How? I’ve got a plan. (Yippee! Let us jump with the happiness of the plan making!)

1.  Today I’m headed to the gym to join. I think that will go a long way to help me build some routines.  I’ll pick a gym time and go every day and start working out again. After a few days stuck inside I’m craving a workout hardcore.

2. Set working hours for myself. I want to schedule my day so that I don’t spend all day blogging, writing and designing. I love all the stuff I do but I can easily get sucked into it and into the stuff that isn’t useful: Twitter, Facebook, web surfing, etc. If anyone works from home, can you give me some tips for this?

3. Print out my weekly planner and use it. During my days spent on the couch being sick I at least thought of some solutions for this. Since I love making lists (obviously) I decided to create a weekly planner for myself. It should help me make plans for the week and then keep them in a visible place so I accomplish them!

Hopefully those three things will help me get myself on a good routine. I’m really ready to make some more progress so that this area of my life catches up with the rest of me. I’ve made huge strides in other areas of my life while my health has taken a backseat. I’m still a lot better than I used to be, but I’ve reached the point where that’s just not enough. I’m ready to really try and to get to the next level fitness and health wise. I admit that I haven’t tried hard enough and have made excuses for myself so that I could prioritize other things ahead of this. But losing weight is still one of my top priorities (planning a wedding a big reminder of this) and I’m ready to build my routines around that fact. Routines of awesomeness.

1. Longing For Routine
2. Falling Into The Routine Of Things
3. Goobye Brownies, Hello Week Of Awesomeness!
4. Spring Break Plan
5. The Plan Of Distractions (Plus A Super Big Goal!)