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Keeping you in check with simply your routine
*There are lions in the distance.
Slowly coming for you.*
Are you going to stand still & let them come toward you? Or run?
Thatâs how information is, it gets you on the hook, it has you chasing after it, and then you walk away with your peace of mind taken away.
Having a routine keeps you in check. So planning one ahead of time can help you receive information only at a specific time period, helping you let everything else fall through the cracks.
I donât care if the oldest lion on earth had a baby, let it fall through the cracks â it wonât do you any good if your peace of mind gets sabotaged!
Here are 3 methods to help this with simply a routine.
Getting the big picture
Using your scheduling app to find patterns in your habits can be a gamechanger for understanding your big-picture self.
In order to know when is best for you to read an article or study, seeing all your habits at once can really help.
This is what I do. I use Notion Calendar to see all my tasks at-a-glance & then use the hide/unhide toggles to see only certain views/tasks.
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Then I can get a more specific view by going into Week or even Day View to really see my habits up-close.
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Having a set, but flexible schedule
Even if you mess up by waking past 11 AM one day, you have a backup time to do tasks on.
For example, letâs say you wake up at 6 AM to specifically read Medium articles for 1-hour, itâs the only time you have the most time to read.
However, you had a late get-together last night so you got to bed late.
Whoosh, there goes that 6 AM morning riser routine! Turns out you wake up at 6:45. It doesnât mean that your day is ruined!
Use that 15 minutes for reading, and then maybe you find a gap in your routine that allows you to read at a different time that day â allowing you to still have time for reading!
Sticking to your long-term goals
In order to make small habits stick, we need to make big habits stick, too.
**This starts with who you want to be in 5 years, where you want to be and with whom****.
Having a base to begin with can help propel your daily habits into sustainable long-term patterns that add up â helping you to consume only the information you need and not having brain fog whenever studying or simply reading!
Takeaway
By starting with the big-ticket items, like: Having a big-picture perspective (self-awareness), having a schedule, and keeping long-term goals, having smaller, attainable habits like not scrolling IG can become much easier!
In this day of technology it can be incredibly difficult to keep our peace-of-mind with all the information out there.
But with these strategies, I hope that youâre able to stop information overload & cut through the text to read what you need, and only that.