The Rhythm Of A New Day

Good. 
"I wake up early and meditate for an hour and then exercise. The main benefit of rising early are that you align your biorhythms with the rhythms of nature. That gives the cycles of your body, mind and spirit the benefit of the unlimited power of the cosmic rhythms in all aspects of your life." Deepak Chopra

Better.
 How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A sche...dule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order--willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living."-Annie Dillard

Best.
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”- Wilkie Collins

I have resisted a daily schedule for most of my adult life. I mistook predictable and stable routine for chronic and tedious monotony. And so I awake every morning to a world of possibility that unfortunately, nine times out of ten, leaves me without a clue as to what to do with myself. I scan my mental list and eventually discern one or two things that I could not bear to have undone at the end of the day. The remaining hours are filled with self-condemnation and remorse for not having the energy or the will to be more productive. It has entered my mind (and been dismissed so quickly, I couldn't be sure it was ever there) to set a routine for myself. Countless lists have been drafted, then abandoned in varying states of completion. Just as a child blows bubbles into the wind, so do I design grand notions of physical, spiritual, and professional transformation that, inevitably, disappear into thin air. I do remember 2004 was a year of self-content. It was the year I managed to lose 50 lbs. I had a training regimen, I knew what and when I could eat, and I felt totally in control. My intention is to make the remainder of 2013 a new age of self-confidence and bliss. I have a firm idea of what I want to do, and when I want to do it, an outline for a good routine to get right down to. It's that simple. I'm pretty sure, -I'll let you know.