Cue. Routine. Reward.
It’s hard to know just how much someone becomes a part of your life until you have to change your cues and routines, and there isn’t a reward waiting for you.
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You enter your kitchen after a long day and go straight to the refrigerator for the most convenient, fastest, processed thing you can get to put in your piehole. There is no way you have the energy to even THINK about what to eat.
You stand at the ice cream/cupcake/bakery for several minutes before deciding on the flavor because the choice overload is too much. Then you get the same kind you always do in defeat.
You’re asked to sign a contract that you are a little nervous about at 4:30pm on a Friday. You default to the status quo and just decide to decline the contract.
Party! Booze! Sugar! Business Travel Rocks!
At home do you….
Exercise, wind down at 8pm, make sure you eat at least one vegetable, stick to 1-2 cups of coffee, stop at one cookie, and stop checking email after 9?
When you travel do you…
Hit snooze, check email until 11pm, eat fast food, drink coffee all day long, take advantage of the corporate per diem at the bar, keep yourself awake by eating cookies all afternoon and forget what a vegetable is?
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Are you ready to outsource some of that stress?
Are you ready to hand over the reins and stop working on $10 an hour tasks?
Are you afraid that no one, and I mean no one, can create a spreadsheet as well as you?
Give it up. Let it go.
Move in to your line of genius and hire an assistant.
Healthy People are Boring. Productivity is Rigid.
How many times have you heard this or thought this yourself?
Do you feel like your friends, families or co-workers sabotage you?
Are you afraid you’ll lose your spontaneity and be licensed to a life of routine?
Do you think that you will never celebrate a birthday with a piece of cake or be able to work creatively because you’re on a schedule?
Enough already. Healthy people are fun. Productive people are fun. You’re just making excuses not to uplevel.
Shift Your Paradigm
Do you find yourself saying…
You are an unorganized, tired mess.
There aren’t enough hours in the day.
I’ll never be fit.
I never get anything done on time.
When you continually tell yourself that you can’t do something or that you aren’t ‘that type of person’, you start to believe it.
Will the Real Superman and Superwoman Please Stand Up?
Who comes to mind when you think of someone that has it together? The woman across the aisle who is beautiful, calm, stylish and has all the latest gadgets? The man who runs a company, is 27 years old, has a perfectly-behaved dog and an immaculate house even though he travels 3 days a week? There is no Superman. There is no Superwoman.
Think you don’t have time for an opportunity?
My schedule is crap. I have no time to exercise.
I have back to back meetings all day. Meditation is not an option.
People will think I’m weird.
I wear (insert here) high heels, a suit, glasses, underwear. The excuses are endless.
A lot of people have crap schedules but you can still find opportunities to move.
How to make routine out of non-routine
Does this describe you? You are slave to air traffic delays. You drive around to meet with clients at different locations. You never know when/where lunch will be and what time you’ll be home. How do you develop habits when you don’t have a routine?
