Your Daily Schedule Might Determine if You Are Meeting Life Expectations
What are your life expectations? Do you feel you are meeting them now? How we evaluate our life often depends on how we spend our days. A thriving life has days filled with progress toward worthwhile goals.
Your time is your control stick. How you prioritize your time determines if at the end of the day you will say that was a good day. This is my daily test statement to determine if I planned my time in alignment with my life goals. I like to make progress on my goals each day.
What Do You Do First Every Day?
When I wake, I meditate, then I write, and then I exercise or might have to do some surf coaching. I have met my priorities and my life is my dream. In the afternoons, I will do more important work or work on the to-do-list that has lower priority and rarely helps my progress.
Match your highest priorities with your highest energy. Writers have to be creative, and we get into flow as soon as we begin. We have learned the mechanics and can engage without thinking about them to achieve something important to us. I love to create an idea and then see if I can write about it. This is what I love in my life.
What is at the Top of Your List?
What is at the top of your list for making your life feel meaningful? Hopefully you spend time on it every day and maybe it is a priority. If you have other obligations, you might have to squeeze it in. Surfers visit the ocean first thing in the morning, so they always make time for their priority.
A thriving life has several important objectives to make it meaningful. Objectives are for work and personal lives. Work life balance is not just about time, but about activities that make a person feel they know why they are here. It is the ultimate test of living a meaningful life.
Creating time blocks to engage in the most important life forwarding activities is the best way to feel purposeful and fulfilled. We may need support from others to carve out these time blocks, but they might be the criteria for whether we stay in a job or look for something else.
Who Is in Charge?
We are in charge of our life whether or not we think so. We might not be in the best circumstances, but we can plan to improve. Improvement is a key activity to stimulating happiness brain chemicals. Learning, creating, contributing, caring, protecting, and exercise move our lives forward. If activities don’t include these characteristics, we may derive little satisfaction from them.
The formula is straightforward. Set your goals. Develop your strategies. Create the supporting time scheduling. Get permission or support from anyone necessary. Live your dream.
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