WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL ALIVE? (continued)
Starting a daily routine is hard, but there should be no excuses for not having one. If you are putting someone or something ahead of your daily routine then you are choosing them over yourself, and therefore, you’re not doing the things that put a smile on your face or make you feel alive.
You need to commit to doing these five things every day for the next eight weeks. Now, if you are thinking you don’t have the time to do what you enjoy, then let me stop you right there. My five things are:
1. Drinking lemon and hot water when I wake up
2. 20 minutes of meditation
3. 30 minutes of exercise
4. Creating a gratitude list before I go to bed
5. Saying hello to everyone I encounter in my day
These five things take an hour of my day; that is around 4% of my entire day. You need to be able to commit at least 4% of your day to what makes you feel alive. Get it? Good! Now it’s time for you to make your list.
My five things are:
Now, a great time to call on this list for the next eight weeks is when you get a craving for food but you know you aren’t hungry. A lot of people use food when they are bored. So for example, if reading is on your list, then instead of eating because you are bored, read. If walking is on your list, then walk. It’s all about doing something different so we can create a new habit, a new way of thinking, a new goat track.