Self-improvement blog Life Coaches has posted a sobering article from someone who found themselves undergoing emergency open heart surgery, pondering all the “somedays” he had let pile up. I don’t advise waiting for open heart surgery to think about Someday. For one thing you might not survive the experience. The time to start thinking about Someday is today. You need to make a list of your Somedays and convert it into real days. I mean that literally. Sit down and make a list of all the things you want to do someday and start scheduling them.
The author goes on to say that it does not matter how trivial this list might look, as long as the items are important to you. What’s one topic on your list of “someday”, and how do you propose going about accomplishing it? Let’s hear in the comments. When is Someday? [Life Coaches]
Routines are not necessarily bad things, but after doing the same thing day in and day out can dull your creative side. Web Worker Daily suggests that clearing your routine of everything you can spare to actually clear can serve to bring back some inspiration: Sometimes you may find that you’re slipping into your routine as a way to avoid focusing on a knotty problem. In that case, ask yourself how much of your routine you can simply skip for a day or two. Do you really need to read all those blogs today? Can the filing wait? Is instant coffee in the kitchen good enough? Slash your schedule to the bone and force yourself to spend time with the work that you’re avoiding, instead of letting the tedium expand to fill the time available.
I find that simply walking away from the computer and doing something (anything!) else can really get me out of a rut. What’s your best routine breaker? Let’s hear in the comments.
4 Ways to Break Out of the Routine [Web Worker Daily]
