Three Ideas

1. Building a routine/habit
2. How important sleep and the right food it
3. Mental and physical benefits

They say/I say 2

With popular beliefs telling people to do something spontaneous every day, the general public’s belief of routines have taken on a negative connotation. Some might say that a routine holds a person back from really living their life and others might have the mindset that people that have routines are a dying breed. With the advancement in technology, word about a social event can spread all around the world with the click of a button that causes a butterfly effect so that people change their plans as they are attracted to the next big thing (more like a fly and poop effect). The world is not a routine place, everyone would agree with that, but why does that mean that we can be?

In the article “Why Having a Daily Routine is Important”, the author Tri challenges these stereotypes by showing the world that routines can actually help a person live a better life. She writes that, “One of the more convenient reasons why structure is important is because it negates the need to regularly schedule your days ahead of time” (¶ 3). In a world of chaos and to-do lists, there seems to be a constant need for more time. She later explains that with a schedule that is set, it increases efficiency in everyday life with the idea that ime is not an issue, just a way of condensing tasks all in one day. She believes that a little every day makes little become a lot.

I believe that Tri’s main idea that she tried to push across to her audience was one hundred percent correct. I believe that when you have a mindset that enables you to follow your path, then good things will come down the road. I have experienced this first hand by flipping my morning routine around by waking up an hour and a half earlier that when I would usually wake up. I’ve been doing this by setting three alarms and trying to go to sleep at an earlier time. By breaking my sleeping in habits, I have boosted my mental aptitude and produced gains in the weight room. My view can all be summed up by Benjamin Franklin once said, “your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones”.

4/17 Prompt Post

This weekend I tried waking up early during the weekends and what I found out was that my internal clock was a lot stronger today to the point that when I woke up, it couple minutes before my alarm. What I have learned from this is that a routine based life style becomes stronger when you are consistent with it every single day (what a shocker). What this is propelling me to do is use another app on my phone that sets a bed time that corresponds to the amount of sleep that I would want to get each night. So if I wanted to get 8 hours of sleep, then my alarm automatically sets a time that I should be asleep. This is pretty nifty if I do say myself. This app will also track how well I try to stick with my bed time by showing me the average time I wake up and fall asleep every single day.