This post is Day 14 of the 2012 edition of the 31 Days to Reset Your Life Challenge. Learn more and sign up here.
Yesterday, you conducted an audit of your time. You were able to look at how you spend each hour of your day and see some patterns that could be modified or changed. Today, you’re going to experiment with the data you collected and redesign your day to make it more productive.
Estimated Time to Complete: Varies
Today’s assignment is to outline a strategy to redesign your day to make more time for the things truly matter to you. You can present your redesign plan in a simple paragraph or a bullet point format. Your plan to redesign your day might include the following (these are just ideas to jog your brain):
- Wake up earlier (or later)
- Negotiate different working hours at your job
- Eat a healthy breakfast in the morning
- Schedule 30 minutes for exercise or just a walk around the neighborhood
- Pack a lunch instead of spending time and money on eating out every day
- Use your lunch break to take care of personal appointments, work on your business or blog, read a book or call to check on a loved one
- Cut out activities that “kill time” i.e. mindlessly checking text messages, unproductive phone calls
- Stop surfing the internet for long periods of time without a real purpose
- Go to bed earlier (or later)
- Schedule time for daily meditation or prayer
Take Action and Reflect: Please share your redesign plan with us in the comments! What did you notice about yourself as you were coming up with it? If you blogged about today’s assignment, please post the link in the comments so we can read it.
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The single most important thing that I would love to do in the morning is spend more time at home where I can get up, workout, have a good breakfast, and read and be out the door at 8:15 to get to work at 9 am. But due to the horrific traffic in Atlanta, that is an almost impossibility. My job is about 25 minutes from my house and even still, giving myself that 45 minutes is pushing it. So right now, I leave the house at between 6:30 and 6:45 and work on my business or read before heading into work at 9 am. I wish there was another way but I just don’t see it. And I spend way too much money at Starbucks. I have considered moving in closer to work but I have an excellent living situation that I am just not ready to give up. Still here is how I would redesign my day:
-spend more time reading in the morning
-eat a healthy breakfast (right now it consists of Starbucks coffee)
-go for a walk in the evenings
-wind down with a cup of tea at night before bed
-eat dinner at my dining room table
-workout consistently in the mornings before work
Saturdays:
-take a creative class (painting, sewing, etc)
-take an outside morning yoga class
-stroll through the farmer’s market
-spend some time gardening
Read my latest blog post…Day 13: Conduct a Time Audit
Here is my day 14 redesign my life:
http://hittheresetbutton2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/day-14-redesign-my-day/
- stop hitting the snooze button and get up on time so that I can meditate and create task list
- prepare lunch and clothes the night before
- create a weekly dinner menu
- STOP doing activities that kill time ( mindless web surfing, unproductive phone conversations, watching TV)
- make a cleaning schedule
-go to the gym at a scheduled time
- update social media sites during lunch
Egypt,
I still struggle with the prepare the night before part. It’s hit and miss for me, but I’m determined to get better. Thanks for the reminder.
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Redesigning My Day:
Weekdays:
* Take the train to work once a week (use that time to read and write)
* Have the boyfriend cook one or two dinners a week (I like this one!)
* Go to bed earlier, so that I can wake up early and go running
* Say no to meetings and activities that are time drainers
* My commute is long: When I am in my car, listen to books on CD
Weekend:
* Wake up early!!
* Go to the farmer’s market/grocery store early in the morning
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