Break the routine

Get out of survival mode

It’s easy to become stuck in the routine of just making it –  the routine of just getting by from day to day to day.  But if you want more than what you’re getting from that, you have to break the pattern.  You have to establish new rituals.

Rituals are the new things you do with intent.  Done with intent because you do them fully intending to change your life.  New patterns for what you do when you awaken, and what you do before you go to bed.  Carving out time for meditating, reading, journaling, exercise.  Maybe a cold shower to get you engaged.  Carving out time to be fully present when you’re with the people who truly matter. Carving out time for focused activity – particularly on what you want to do, but have been putting off.

It’s just as important what you stop doing as well as what you start.  Maybe that means unplugging on a regular basis.  Maybe that means listening more than you speak.  Maybe that means changing to better sleep patterns.

If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you always get.  Quit making excuses. If you want more, if you want better, you have to break the routine, change the patterns and intentionally get out of survival mode.