(Pizza from Sunday nite. Yummy)I've been thinking about 'Routine' a lot this week. It's something that comes up for me often in my head and I go over and over and over what I think I want my normal daily routine to be and how to get to the place where I am living that routine. I bet if I looked back in my journals, I'd find in a two week period an entry that had a timeline in it that looked like this:
6:30 get out of bed
Journal and draw till 7:30 with tea.
Meditate (15-30 minutes) or exercise /maybe yoga.
Breakfast.
Check email and blog.
9:30 or 10 out to work.
1pm lunch then short nap. Tea and chocolate.
2-5 work.
and so on. Now I don't have much of a problem with any of this. Other than getting up at 6:30. I'd really like to get up at 6. Presently I get up at 7am. I am working my way back, slowing. Instead of forcing a big change, I'm going to work back in 15 or 30 min. intervals until I am getting up at 6. That may take another 2 months.
I get discouraged with my work week b/c it seems that more and more I am having meetings to attend. Most of these have to do with the Arts Council. So I'd like to have a weekly routine too. This would figure in meetings, grocery shopping, trip to the landfill, postoffice etc.
Do I sound a bit anal in wanting all this? Is it important? I mean it must be a little bit since I think about it so much. I feel sort of stupid putting it out here. You know sometimes I have things in my head that seem like a big deal, but once I speak them out loud or write them down I say, "Man that's not so important. Why did I spend so much time worrying about that?"
Another part of this is just wanting to spend my time in a way that feels good to me. That currently means turning off the television, not checking my email 10 times a day (regulating computer time), and making good use of my studio time.
I've started making a list of 3 things I'd like to accomplish in the day. Usually they are simple and direct. Today I have:
Set up photo shoot with Holly.
Load kiln.
Order flagstones.
So nothing huge, but if I get those things done today along with some work in the shop. I'll be happy.
Well enough of this for now. I must get on with whatever is next...