You probably do have a routine though you may not know that you do. What ever you do each morning or throughout the day is your routine. But is your routine really efficient and working well for you?
If you want to modify your routine so that it works better for you, read on.
If you don’t purposely build your daily routine, it will build itself. You get up, make coffee, read, get the children up, brush your hair…. all in the same general order each day. If you work outside your home you probably do each thing in a certain order and subconsciously change the order and manner of doing those things to fit your morning and get you out of the house on time. However, if you will build your routine on purpose you will have a more efficient system and have it more quickly.
Let’s build a sample evening routine.
First, list what you know you need to do every evening so that your morning will go more smoothly:
1. Wash all dishes, wipe down counters, put away all food.
2. Make sure all clothes for the next day are ready. Get into the habit of laying out clothes!
3. Get all backpacks, purses, keys, etc. ready to go.
4. Find shoes and lay them out.
5. Sweep kitchen
6. Straighten living room.
So, with that list in hand, I would get all this done every evening before bed time. I can enlist the help of family members, especially with finding their shoes and everything they personally need the next day.
This should become an every evening event at your home if you want to get organized and make your mornings less stressful! That is what routines are for!
You may be wondering what the daily routine of other women, maybe even women at home, looks like. How often do I plan meals for my family, when do I fit in those errand days and library days? So here is a peak inside my day.
My morning routine looks like this:
Up and personal grooming and dress
Time for reading, coffee and devotional
Run a sink of hot soapy water. I use this water to help me keep the kitchen clean and dishes rinsed for the dishwasher.
Fix breakfast, clean up
Start school by 9 a.m.
While the children are working on school, I sit with them and work on the CHKNetwork site, read, study and write.
Lunch is at 11:30 and we break til about 12:30.
Afternoon chores are next. I work on laundry, cleaning, straightening and sweeping.
More school until about 2:30
Tea Time at 4 pm
Supper prep at 430 – 5:00
This is a pretty simple routine and it works for me. I challenge you to create a routine for either morning or evening that will help you stay on track with your day!
If you have a routine that is working for you, I would love for you to share it here so our readers can learn from it.
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