Make Adventure with Great Routines

How can you make adventure with great routines.

So we’ve just had a beautiful Christmas and New Year holiday. We spent lovely days making adventure happen. But now it’s soon time to go back to work and back to school, where every day runs into the next and the holiday adventures seem miles away. Here’s how you can make adventure with great routines for every day must do’s and tasks.

Well, perhaps we can delay that dreaded feeling a little by taking a new perspective on routine and day to day life stuff that just needs to be done.

How can I be sure that routine is not the death of adventure? Here’s just two ways I’m sure.

The first reason I know we make adventure with great routines: 

comes from my experience with hundreds of clients and years of seeing first hand how the lack of routine can limits us. Without good routines even the simplest of tasks are resented and tiresome. One of the most common of all routines we all do is laundry. It’s also the task I hear most families can’t keep on top of. Nearly every home has a pile of laundry sitting around either waiting to be folded, put away or ironed.

Now, don’t tune out because we’re talking about boring old laundry. You’ll be surprised what you can learn about creating effective routines for your workplace and business from the humble laundry routine. “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

So what is the magic of a good routine for laundry?

The magic is in the cycle and the completion of each step in the cycle in the most efficient way. So most people have the basics working pretty well. Collecting dirty clothes into the hamper, sorting into like with like, putting into the machine and hanging it out to dry. But that is not the completion of the cycle of laundry it doesn’t finish until you get to wear it again. To do that efficiently all laundry needs to be back in the wardrobe and drawers where you naturally get dressed, plus where you can see it so you can match pieces for outfits etc.

Where I see most households falling down is the step from, drying to wardrobe is in effective and tiresome. Most take the washing off the line or out of the dryer in a pile, in a basket and put to the side for another step of folding and ironing sorting. I guarantee you will save hours of time to spend on adventure, if you fold and collate into categories of who owns the clothes and then by type of item. e.g. Susie’s underwear, t-shirts, pyjama and skirts folded into one stack.

The other reason this saves hours, generally the clothes are warm from the sun and dryer, so if you are throwing them in a heap the items will cool in the basket creased and the creases are naturally ironed into the garment and more vigorous ironing is then required Argggghhhhhh! (I really dislike ironing).

So now transfer this to your work and business activities. What are the routine things you need to do? and now then identify every step in the cycle of that routine so it becomes effective and efficient. The laundry routine has unlocked ineffective systems in business for hundreds of my clients hopefully it will for you too. My new eBook “The Truth About Habits, Routines and Schedules” is packed with step by step ways to create good routines. It’s free just got to the bottom of the page to add your details and I’ll send it straight to your inbox. 

The other reason I know that you will make adventure with great routines:

is that the great artists, most intelligent and world changing minds of history turned to routine to aid creativity and thought. Hemingway, Picasso, Nikola Tesla, and Mozart just to name a few all kept to a routine.

If you still doubt the power for adventure with routine take a look at one the books on my Audible must listen list Daily Rituals : How Artists Work by Mason Currey .

I personally believe that having good routines frees up our mind for more complex and lateral thinking. For me a routine almost becomes a mediation as it is so automatic I no longer need to use my conscious mind to get it done, I no longer feel resentful towards the task as my mind can be happily at peace and restful in this action. I also don’t feel tiresome to do the task, for at times I can use the routine to contemplate new ideas and play with my imagination.

One of my all time favorite quotes is by Gustave Flaubert a renowned Nineteenth Century Author and flamboyant figure in his time. He is quoted to say “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” 

I hope you can make room for your adventure even when your back to work and school. Routine is just one way you can make it happen. If you want more help feel free to contact me CLICK HERE to ask me a question.

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Wishing you a wonderful year ahead full of good health, happiness
and adventure.

Carolyn