10 days since the retreat ended and this is the first moment that I’ve had to finally sit down and write...
“Oh, it’ll be easy to ground back into my routine once it’s all over.”
Wrong.
There’s been so much catching up to do—work, clients, Bootcamp, residency, budgeting—that the headspace required to simply relax and process everything with words has evaded me.
Here’s a little reflection on routine, momentum, keeping calm, and gratitude.
Routine
Leading up to the shindig, I was thriving in my routine. I was on top of it, productive and healthy.
It felt like there were 30 hours in the day.
In fact, I was so impressed with my results that I really started to perceive new realms of possibility. If micro-managing every segment of my day could produce such excellence, what if I micro-managed every hour?
But alas, nothing like a 4-day party to throw you off track. Followed by a week of what may as well be a community after party, it’s almost like I’m now trying to remember who I am in my day-to-day.
As I settle into routine again, I notice some of my good new habits really did get locked in. I find myself still doing them without compromise:
- Physical practices (yoga, mobility, calisthenics) 2-3x/day
- Gratitude prayer with the kids before bed
- Nightly journal
I've still been doing these despite the break in momentum. And it feels comforting to know that something is waiting for me each morning and each night to level me out.
That's the life-changing thing about healthy routine that I've discovered. It's grounding.
...but other new habits didn’t make the cut in my limited consciousness, and I’ve found myself struggling to re-implement them:
- Reading 10 pages of a personal development book every day
- Creating daily content
- Daily gratitude journal, daily planning & habit tracker
- Reciting my “Think & Grow Rich” affirmations
This last one probably sounds silly. But the more you repeat something, the more true it becomes to your subconscious. When I was repeating my $100M wealth goal every day, it felt attainable… closer.
And now that I haven’t, it feels almost stupid to even say it, so far away does it seem.
Finding gratitude in what is
It’s all part of the cycles, I suppose. We can’t have it all.
These last two weeks have been utter chaos.
There’s been a lot to catch up on with Sovereignty Studios as it grows.
Yesterday we went to the Immigration office to finalize our residency process.
The day before that was a local police background check in downtown.
A professional musician friend stayed with us for a week and we were jamming every night.
It goes on and on and on, this life thing.
…oh, and next week, the kids don’t have school for some reason.
(But I should definitely be grateful that no one’s been sick since moving here. I feel like in Hawaii the kids were sick every other week.)
The truth is, being busy can be awesome if you're building something you believe in. In my case, I'm building a life.
And hey, here I am writing again. Perhaps it’s time to dust off the old gratitude journal and start reminding my subconscious that I'm building wealth.
In fact, now that I think about it, I believe I have the Almanac of Naval here on my tablet…
The Harmony of Routine is always waiting, and it's the ultimate fall back plan.
