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The Idea of the Week
Even if you don’t thrive on routine or would prefer casual spontaneity in your days, having a structure to your day and implementing routines help provide stability and give you a sense of control in stressful, unpredictable, or uncertain times. In this 7-minute read from VeryWellMind, you’ll learn how a lack of structure can affect mood, the benefits of having a routine, and reminders for creating and implementing a routine.
Do you race through your week for the weekend when you’ll finally catch your breath; Friday finally arrives and you have your entire weekend ahead of you! You think of all the things you can do … but overwhelm yourself, blink, and it’s suddenly Sunday evening; you’re back to the grind tomorrow yet you feel like you didn’t accomplish anything this weekend. In this 16-minute podcast, Rowena Tsai shares 12 simple, practical steps to create a restful yet productive weekend routine.
❝Game plans, even the most detailed ones, exist to help us and to serve us; not to make us feel even more guilty, less than, or not enough for doing things that we initially planned.❞
–Rowena Tsai
Practice of the Week
In another 13-minute video, Rowena Tsai shares how to create a realistic morning routine by first considering our “social” and “essential” selves in our morning routine: how much of our routine is rooted in what we want to do (essential) and what we think we should do (social). Rowena came up with 3 questions to assess what our essential selves want, and this week, we invite you to pause and reassess your routine by considering these questions:
- What makes me excited?
- What brings me peace?
- What brings me joy?
In this 8-minute podcast, Leah from Girl, Glow Up shares tips to create a routine and stick with it. An important tip from this episode is to make your routine fun!
❝Anything that is going to help you enjoy your routine, or enjoy a new task, is worth investing in.❞
–Leah from Girl, Glow Up
How will you make your routine fun? Let us know on our Instagram or Facebook page!
The Thought of the Week
Wishing you a peaceful week!
