Level Up Your Day: How to Maximize the 6 Essential Areas of Your Daily Routine by S.J. Scott & Rebecca Livermore

Author:S.J. Scott & Rebecca Livermore
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Publisher: Oldtown Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-12-20T08:00:00+00:00

5 Steps to Streamline Your Routine Activities

There’s a lot you could do to systematize those routine activities, so it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the possibilities and not know where to start. That’s why we recommend this five-step process to streamline your daily obligations.

Step #1: Start with your biggest challenge.

Identify the routine activity that takes the most time. Whether it’s cleaning, organizing or managing parental duties, you should find the part of the day that often takes hours to complete.

As an example, let’s say you find yourself cleaning for two hours every evening after work. This should be the first routine activity you adjust.

Step #2: Streamline this process.

All routines are a series of small actions. Your goal is to break down this time-consuming routine and look for small changes that simplify it. Our advice is to use the Tiny Habits concept to create a number of small processes.

For instance, you might waste 15 minutes every night rinsing your dishes before putting them into the dishwasher. You could streamline this process by setting up a new rule (for you and your family):

“After I finish my meal, I will take my dishes to the sink, rinse them and then put them into the dishwasher.”

Use this simple rule to chip away at your biggest challenge. Once you start systematizing all those small actions, you’ll notice that many routine activities won’t take as long as they once did.

Step #3: Track your progress.

Habits are built with consistency. Since these are smaller habits that don’t require too much willpower, you can get away with building two or three at a time. We recommend focusing on not breaking the chain, and completing them on a daily basis.

There are a lot of apps to help you stay consistent, or you can track these actions on a paper calendar. The important thing is to constantly reinforce this behavior.

Step #4: Create a morning and night routine.

You can streamline daily activities by incorporating them into morning and evening routines. If needed, create a routine where you only do a few of these actions. Then, once you’ve successfully built them into automatic behaviors, add a few more.

Step #5: Add to your routines.

Jot down a list of ideas you’d like to add to your daily or weekly routines. Put a note on your calendar to review that list once a month to determine if you’re ready to add anything new to your current habits.

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