Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 3: Today's tip is that routines are like rose gardens. Even
Speaker 3: the best routines need tending from time to time, so
Speaker 3: it is best not to expect that you can ever.
Speaker 2: Set it and forget it. This episode is first airing
Speaker 2: in the middle of summer, at least in the Northern Hemisphere,
Speaker 2: and it's a time when for many of us our
Speaker 2: routines look a little different. Sometimes that's great, and sometimes
Speaker 2: it's more frustrating. If you had a great routine of
Speaker 2: exercising after your kid got on the school bus in
Speaker 2: the morning, now she's in a camp where you need
Speaker 2: to drive her each day. It changes the routine. Even
Speaker 2: if you enjoy the time with your kid, it was
Speaker 2: probably not easy to build that exercise routine. Seeing it
Speaker 2: disappear can make you worry if you'll ever be able
Speaker 2: to take it back up again. I know I have
Speaker 2: struggled with this. My work routines involved mostly doing focused
Speaker 2: work when the kids are out of the house, which
Speaker 2: they were for many hours during the school year. Not
Speaker 2: everyone is in camp every week during the summer. And
Speaker 2: so I have to rethink what is possible to do
Speaker 2: with more people around. So it goes. I love reading
Speaker 2: about routines and studying the routines of successful people, but
Speaker 2: every time I read about some great routine, I have
Speaker 2: to remember that this is just a snapshot in time.
Speaker 2: Very few people can maintain the exact same routine every day,
Speaker 2: or even five days a week for long stretches of time.
Speaker 2: People change jobs or move to different homes. They have
Speaker 2: new babies, or see babies grow up and graduate, kids
Speaker 2: change schools, or decide to start or end different activities.
Speaker 2: You can have a great routine working out with a friend,
Speaker 2: and then that friend unfortunately moves nor gets injured. Since
Speaker 2: all of these changes are to some degree inevitable, it
Speaker 2: is best to view routines more like we view a
Speaker 2: rose garden. We have some beautiful roses blooming all summer
Speaker 2: by my house. Planting them and getting them to grow
Speaker 2: requires a reasonable amount of work. After that, it's more
Speaker 2: pruning and watering. But again it's not nothing. No one
Speaker 2: plants a garden and says, hey, good, I'll never have
Speaker 2: to touch that thing again. Instead, the regular tending is
Speaker 2: part of the process. You don't need to plant a
Speaker 2: new garden every day by any means. Even after the winter,
Speaker 2: there's a lot that's still there that you can work with.
Speaker 2: But you do have to do a little work here
Speaker 2: and there to make sure that things still bloom, and
Speaker 2: you need to replace the occasional plant. If animals are
Speaker 2: drought or anything else has worked.
Speaker 3: Its mischief.
Speaker 2: When you expect routines to change over time, you can
Speaker 2: simply appreciate them while they are working. Then when they
Speaker 2: stop working, or when life forces a change, you can
Speaker 2: simply acknowledge that such change is inevitable. It is not
Speaker 2: that anything was wrong. Something worked for a while, and
Speaker 2: now you do something else. The roses will still be beautiful.
Speaker 2: They just need some effort from time to time. In
Speaker 2: the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's
Speaker 2: to making the.
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