Greetings everyone 🙌
One thing I've been trying so hard to do is not to live a programmed life where all my activities for the day are predictable by me and other people, especially neighbours around me. I don't like it when people know my next action or what I will do in the next hour. Also, a predictable lifestyle is boring.
Is this unpredictable lifestyle possible with a work routine? This is where the problem comes in because I do not sit at home all the time; I do have work.
So, let me tell you about my typical day in the way I try to mix things in order to avoid making it boring:
- I don't wake up by alarm
My body system has gotten used to waking up from 3:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. Since the time space is wide, I decided not to program my waking up time on a fixed time by an alarm. No, let my body get flexible and wake up at the perfect time within the time space, the time it decides that fits the body for the day.
- Phone first
People call it a bad habit and get eaten up by it; I reach out to my phone first as soon as I wake up before remembering to thank God.
Like I said in @princessbusayo's article,
That's the truth: a good number of people on earth reach out to the phone first before remembering their creator.
- Blogging comes next
It's deep in the morning; it's not yet time to start the work of the day. What comes next is visiting my blogging offices, either to write or read. Like I said, I don't like it programmed, so I do whatever pleases my system at the moment, whether I write or read.
If it's programmed and the Writers block knocks in and I wasn't able to write for the moment, I will end up feeling guilty.
The next activities are up to the situation of things such as the availability of electricity or whether I have loads of clothes to attend to.
- If there's electricity;
I don't think twice; I rush into ironing of clothes in my house. I do laundry, and I have an ironing space in my house and there's always clothes to iron.
Also, we don't see electricity often here, and we are paying for it. Anytime we are blessed with it, I rush in to make maximum use of it.
This ironing will last until the light is seized. Yeah, I often ignore breakfast just to utilise the electricity.
- If there's no electricity;
Breakfast comes next, and I don't have a timetable for feeding; I eat whatever comes to mind. Sometimes I would end up cooking a fresh meal, which sometimes take a lot of time.
- Workshop attention;
My workspace is in the same compound as my living home, so I walk to and fro to attend to the workshop while attending to my chores in the house. Bad habit? Yeah. I'm living like that for now. To me, it's more like using one stone to kill multiple birds.
I usually get settled there when I've taken my bath and done with breakfast around 9:10 a.m to 10:00am. Not fixed on a particular time!
If there are clothes to wash, I calculate the weather, and if it's favourable for washing, I do justice to it.
In between the lines for all these activities, I will be stealing time to blog (check on my notifications, read, and write as the spirit leads).
My main activities of the day actually end at 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hey! I eat food in between 💯
Again, if there's electricity, then it never ends. I get standing up, ironing clothes until my body knocks out or when electricity disappears. Sometimes I don't pray to see electricity, especially when my phone has been charged, because it'll be so hard for me to see electricity and not get to iron clothes. My conscience won't be at peace.
- Sleeping hour;
This part is not predictable; when the dizziness becomes too much, I just close my tabs and sleep off, and I do tell my nocturnal friends like Beeeeee and Ibbtammy to wake me up by all means with calls, in case rapture is about to happen and they've never ceased to do that, not in a rapture emergency though. 😆
Thanks for reading.
This is my entry to HiveGhana prompt of the week