Ernest Hemingway made sure he got up to write in the early morning hours, creating his masterpieces totally undisturbed, while the Dalai Lama wakes up at three-thirty a.m. to spend his first four hours of the day meditating on the roots of compassion and what he can do for his people. "If you don’t do ritual things in order, the paper doesn’t read as well, and you’ll be thrown off the whole day. But when you can sit for a while at your table, reach for your coffee, look out the window at the sky or some branches, then back down at the paper or a book, everything feels right for the moment, which is maybe all we have," wrote Annie Lamott.
I have developed a healthy fascination for creating the ideal daily routine, if not building a rock solid routine. We all create our lives through this interesting process of adjusting our schedules, changing our habits or forming new ones, and trying to escape the cult of productivity in order to regain our sanity.
My daily rituals have been altered in less than a year, and I have recently trained myself to wake up even earlier. After all, we no longer have a helper at home and I have to do a lot more things by myself or with the help of my husband. Here's what a typical weekday looks like:
I don't have much time for many other things, but a daily routine allows me to get things done and set my priorities straight in this order: GOD, good health, family and relationships, work and education, and a little R&R once in a while.
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