Don’t get me wrong – I love routines. They are familiar, easy, often effective, some times pleasurable. But that may be precisely the problem. For the very same reasons, routines are also dangerously seductive. Undue reliance on them can cause us to become handcuffed, ultimately causing our today’s and tomorrow’s to look like our yesterday’s. Daily, well-trodden pathways can produce well-worn feelings. Be careful of routines, sometimes they are so good they are bad.
Of course, routines cannot be beaten when they help us accomplish recurring tasks, but if we want to construct wonderful memories, then we may need to halt what is ordinary and orderly in order to do what is extraordinary and new.
For many of us, our professional lives do us a favor. They provide variety and challenge. Even so, there is routine. We leave for work at about the same time each day, we travel the same route, we do similar tasks each day, we go home by the same route at about the same time, we eat, watch TV, check e-mail and voice mail, go to bed at the same general time, etc. And wake up tomorrow in order to leave for work at the same time and do it all over again.
How about it? Will you remember today, tomorrow or the next day one year from now? If not, then maybe it’s time to give yourself a break from your routine. Have an adventure. Make that call. Arrange that trip. Visit that place. Introduce yourself. Make a beginning. Make an ending. Write it. Buy it. Say it.
You gave many other people gifts. It’s time to give yourself the gift of possibilities and make your days and your life memorable.
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