So, I can not wrap my mind around how fast time flies. I feel like an 89 year old grandmother when I say that. But July was yesterday, it seems, and November is less than 2 weeks away! When I was a kid, the year seemed to drag on in order for me to get to Halloween or Christmas or the next exciting birthday.

Thinking on all of that always leads me to the same old topic – I need to write more. I need to document more and share more. I need to get spiritually and physically fit. I have said it for the last 25 years, yet I haven’t devoted my life to writing and expressing myself in the way that I should. Nor am I as fit as I should be in body or spirit. I make this great statement that I am going to change and get better and it falls flat.

But I was sitting with myself last night doing work for my side gig contract job and thought enough is enough. I will take time out every day to move my body and use my fingers to release my mind. There was no great awakening or message from God, I just know that I have been wasting my time arguing on social media, scrolling through faux lives, meanwhile losing focus on mine.

My daughter has daily rituals. Do you guys?

For instance, she journals, does meal prep, lifts weights, goes to class 30 hrs a week, does homework, and manages to sleep 7 to 8 hours per night. When I see people like her online, I want to throw the phone. Because they seem so together, and it all seems so impossible.

So, of course, typical me can not promise myself a ton of changes at once. It always backfires. Instead, I have decided to do 3 things daily:

15-30 minutes in prayer time

15 minutes writing somewhere about something

Move my body for 15-30 minutes doing anything

I used the words something or anything to make it less specific. Having vague and ambiguous terms seems to make it more doable. This is funny because I am an exact kind of person and am not a fan of ambiguity. But something about having set tasks outside of work has never been a thing I have done. I schedule my whole year but have an issue sticking to a daily schedule.

I am trying to break that mold. How do you all stick to tasks or routines? What is your magic formula?

Let me know! I need all of the help I can get.

~simply

Dee