Our habits and routines are the frameworks of our lives. We don’t realize how much we are impacted by the things we do routinely every day. I am particularly subject to routine in the mornings. For years I have gotten up early, cleared my emails, checked Facebook and twitter and written my blog. I have been grossly out of that routine recently and it’s beginning to impact me.
I haven’t posted to my blog in over a week and have done so only 6 times in January, even though today is the 21st. I have also abandoned my early morning habit of working out at the gym. I haven’t done that in weeks.
I think the problem is that I am not waking up as early as I have in the past and, I think, the reason for that is that I haven’t been sleeping as well as I normally do. Traditionally, I sleep like a rock. Not so lately. If that is the root of the problem, my analysis ends there. I don’t know why I’m not sleeping well.
I do know that my blog posting and work out have become essential to my spiritual, physical and emotional well being. I have been doing the posting for years and the work out since my knee replacement surgery in July. Perhaps I am just in a vicious cycle. I don’t sleep well because I haven’t been doing these things and I haven’t been doing these things because I don’t sleep well.
What’s the solution? I guess I just have to press forward and force myself back into the routines that have worked well for me. This has been the opposite of the traditional New Year’s Resolution cycle. I hope I have better luck readopting my routines than I ever had following resolutions. My wife has labeled this an attack of Satan, and she might well be right.
Is Satan messing with your life? When he does so it’s normally because you are doing are feeling called to do something great. What is God calling you to that would disturb Satan? More importantly, for me, what is He calling me to? William Blake had this advice: “Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night.” Sounds like a good routine. I’ll try to get back to it.
That gives me something to blog about and something to think about while I work out.
Be blessed.
Nick
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