Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that routines are like rose gardens. Even the
Speaker 1: best routines need tending from time to time, so it
Speaker 1: is best not to expect that you can ever set
Speaker 1: it and forget it. This episode is first airing in
Speaker 1: the middle of summer, at least in the Northern Hemisphere,
Speaker 1: and it's a time when for many of us our
Speaker 1: routines look a little different. Sometimes that's great, and sometimes
Speaker 1: it's more frustrating. If you had a great routine of
Speaker 1: exercising after your kid got on the school bus in
Speaker 1: the morning, but now she's in a camp where you
Speaker 1: need to drive her each day, it changes the routine.
Speaker 1: Even if you enjoy the time with your kid, it
Speaker 1: was probably not easy to build that exercise routine. Seeing
Speaker 1: it disappear can make you worry if you'll ever be
Speaker 1: able to take it back up again. I know I
Speaker 1: have struggled with this. My work routines involved mostly doing
Speaker 1: focused work when the kids are out of the house,
Speaker 1: which they were for many hours during the school year.
Speaker 1: Not everyone is in camp every week during the summer,
Speaker 1: and so I have to rethink what is possible to
Speaker 1: do with more people around. So it goes. I love
Speaker 1: reading about routines and studying the routines of successful people,
Speaker 1: but every time I read about some great routine, I
Speaker 1: have to remember that this is just a snapshot in time.
Speaker 1: Very few people can maintain the exact same routine every day,
Speaker 1: or even five days a week for long stretches of time.
Speaker 1: People change jobs or move to different homes. They have
Speaker 1: new babies, or see babies grow up and graduate, kids
Speaker 1: change schools, or decide to start or end different activities.
Speaker 1: You can have a great routine working out with a friend,
Speaker 1: and then that friend unfortunately moves or gets injured. Since
Speaker 1: all of these changes are to some degree inevitable, it
Speaker 1: is best to view routines more like we view a
Speaker 1: rose garden. We have some beautiful roses blooming all summer
Speaker 1: by my house. Planting them and getting them to grow
Speaker 1: requires a reasonable amount of work. After that, it's more
Speaker 1: pruning and watering. But again it's not nothing. No one
Speaker 1: plants a garden and says, hey, good, I'll never have
Speaker 1: to touch that thing again. Instead, the regular tending is
Speaker 1: part of the process. You don't need to plant a
Speaker 1: new garden every day by any means. Even after the winter,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that's still there that you can work with.
Speaker 1: But you do have to do a little work here
Speaker 1: and there to make sure that things still bloom, and
Speaker 1: you need to replace the occasional plant if animals are
Speaker 1: drought or anything else has worked its mischief. When you
Speaker 1: expect routines to change over time, you can simply appreciate
Speaker 1: them while they are working. Then when they stop working,
Speaker 1: or when life forces a change, you can simply acknowledge
Speaker 1: that such change is inevitable. It is not that anything
Speaker 1: was wrong. Something worked for a while, and now you
Speaker 1: do something else. The roses will still be beautiful. They
Speaker 1: just need some effort from time to time. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear from you. You can send me your tips, your questions,
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