The creation of a regular day.

 How to stack up regular days. 

    Once you realize that it is you normal activities, how you spend you time sets your direction you may realize, as I did that your regular days are what is creating a direction that do you not want. When you look at your direction in life, and the things that have the biggest impact are those small things that are dragging you down or boosting you up. 

As with any new creation, you need a place to start.

    If your familiar with Maslow's hierarch of needs, you find that there are layers of needs that must be satisfied before a higher need can be recognized or strived for. (According to Maslow, we have five categories of needs: physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization. ). This is a good place to start on creating your regular day. After all if your regular day includes a struggle to eat, it is much easier to ignore the higher needs. If you are hungry enough the question of "Do I love this food?" or "Will this food make me fat" really don't come to mind. Let's be really brutal about it, when you are hungry enough even "Is this food safe?" becomes less of a concern. I would like to add a corollary to Maslow, In order to maintain a higher level you must build a tolerance for doing without lower order needs. 

    This is where the examination of your regular day can help out. When you create your schedules, routines, and habits. The goal should be to limit the impact of those lower order needs so you can dedicate more of yourself to the higher ones. I return to the food analogy because it is the most obvious I could think of. Indulging in a feast is actually good for satisfying all those needs. Human beings need to eat to keep form dying. But constantly feasting will kill you too. The regular day encourages a balanced approach of not starving yourself in order to satisfy your esteem, or pursuing (German chocolate cake all the time) food that you love all the time. The sweet spot with food will be a balanced diet, eaten at times without other needs interrupting. The purpose of food is to keep me alive, I am better off it the food I eat is safe. I am happier when I have access to foods I love. The quantity I take in must be moderate or I will get too fat or too skinny, The over all truth is it takes some thought into what I eat, when, and how much, to satisfy all the those lower order needs. Your regular day should have a habit having enough hunger in it so you are actually hungry when you eat, you should get enough exercise in you day so if you splurge on foods you love you won't create problems with the other layers and levels. 

    The place to start on creating your regular day will always start with am I taking care of my most basic needs at the right level. Not too hungry or full just normal or regular. If you find yourself gaining or losing too much weight it is a symptom that you don't have this one right. You can only tell if you are paying attention. 

    Once you have looked over your schedule and habits, you will find a time that you are doing something totally counter productive, and even making regular days a bit harder on people around you. That is the place to start. Add some small activity to counter that wasted time and "schedule" it in. Hit it every day until you that activity is just part of your day. Eventually it starts to get easier to accomplish, and is actually missed when you don't do it. That is the real battle for the regular day. This process is not easy and must be maintained. You may even find that the little thing you are doing is not at the right time, or not enough, that is fine, at least you are moving in a better direction. Once you are comfortable with that task, be careful about moving it on your schedule, it will be necessary, but you don't want that thing you replace the wasted time to come back.