Home at Last

I've been away at a workshop again and it's good to be home again. I miss my routine at home!! I miss my morning routine with yoga and reading and oatmeal. I miss my Starbucks routine. I even miss getting work done at my desk! Because it piles up while I'm away and then I have a heck of a time catching up again.

I try to create my own routine when I'm away... like reading a book in the morning, reviewing my workshop manual, going for a walk, or maybe even going to a Starbucks (if that's available). But I usually find that walking and yoga fall by the wayside pretty quick. I have all sorts of excuses as to why that is... but that's all they are, just excuses...

Now that I'm back home, we also need to get back into our exercise routine. At the time that I'm writing this (not March 23!), our personal trainer is away and we are on our own. The treadmill part we can do pretty easily... but we need to try and remember some of the other exercise moves... and that might prove a bit more challenging. We're going to give it a go tomorrow... so we'll see how that goes...

I do like to have a routine in my life... it grounds me and gives me a foundation upon which I can then build other things. I suppose... if I really needed to... I could build my life in chaos... but from a purely human perspective... I think we are creatures of habit and routine... Doing something new and different everyday... that might be a bit challenging. Mind you, when we just do things out of habit, we don't need to think about things, so we go on autopilot. It might be different to do things differently, to flip routine on its head and do everything mindfully... We'd need to be present to each and every moment, instead of shifting into autopilot... That might be different...