How Scheduling, Planning and Routine can make for Incredible Health and an Incredible Life!

The sun is always shinning above the clouds.

We all have some form of busy lives, with this comes our routines, our schedules, our patterns, our priorities and everything we have created up to this point that is normal, the way we operate in our lives. Often these patterns that we have created are ones that serve us on many levels. Whether it serves to bring about balance and health, or these patterns can serve to reinforce negative beliefs that we hold about ourselves. On a subconscious level we often have patterns that create self sabotage. We decide to make changes to increase our quality of health, relationships, spiritual connection, work, the roles that we have placed ourselves in, physical fitness, emotional well-being and other facets. Often we find these changes difficult, demanding, challenging, frustrating and sometimes they feel impossible. Some of this comes from the negative beliefs that we hold about ourselves, we sabotage these changes so we can prove that these beliefs are right. Whether these beliefs are 'I am not good enough...', 'I'm afraid of...', 'I'm not...' add whatever words at the end of those statements are true for you. We all hold something that we can add to them. These are the beliefs that we have learnt through out of lives, and have chosen, often on a subconscious level, to reinforce. Often these beliefs were formed in our early years and can have a good grip on our reality. I call mine my a Gremlin (for those of you who have seen the movie I'm sure you relate). Often we allow these beliefs to hold us back from truly implementing the changes that consciously want to.
We of course are not victims to these beliefs, it's all about learning how we sabotage ourselves, knowing ourselves deeply and then putting into place ways to counter act these tendencies, even to transform them over time. This is where scheduling, planning and creating different routines comes into play. Reviewing, reflecting and forward planning is what brings you from reactor to creator! I know this is something that I wanted in my own life, to become the creator of it, to go from riding the waves to being the waves themselves.
If you’re not taking time to review, reflect + map out what changes are needed and what direction you need to take, you’re just getting swamped in REACTING instead of CREATING.

As I make these changes, I experience expansion, expansion on many levels. Through this expansion I can experience resistance, or I reach my Upper Limit as Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks call it. This often requires me to look at the resistance, the self sabotage, gather my tools, embrace it, breathe through it and then let it go.

The tools that I have gathered over the years will differ from yours in some ways. These are the best ones: Daily Meditation, Conscious Breathing, Journalling, Yoga, Acupuncture, Cranial Sacral Treatments, Cultivating my Observer self, Learning to LOVE MYSELF in every  moment and focusing on ways that I can empower myself, taking 100% responsibility for my experience.
The tools that I have found to be immensely powerful, that supports me in making ACTIONABLE STEPS, which leads to SUCCESS, is the big three SCHEDULING, PLANNING and setting a ROUTINE.
A lot of people, including myself shy away from that work ROUTINE. I'm not talking about routines that you get stuck in, that are so concrete that change creates disorder, panic and discomfort. I'm talking about Routines that help us implement our ACTIONABLE STEPS. That support us in our goals, that allow change to become that which we are, rather then that which we want to be. It allows us to focus on nurturing ourselves, and if we don't nurture these seeds of change and growth how do they come to maturity .
PLANNING is just a way to tap into our POTENTIAL. It is a way to help manifest our Willpower, to find our focus and our concentration. These wonderful traits still require flexibility, as we often experience obstacles. Therefore just like WATER we learn to flow around these obstacles, which allows us to keep our focus and concentration, aiding our potential to be actualised. Concentration lies in our capacity to reflect and check in. If our fears which often lay in the statements 'I'm not good enough...' or 'I'm not...' aren't addressed then our evolution can be hampered as fear keeps us frozen and unable to accept change.
When we are wanting to make changes for our physical, emotional and mental Health, we are often facing the unknown. In those moments the virtue of wisdom empowers us to navigate these changes. It supports us to allay our own fears through self-assurance by being connected with our truth, which arises from our depths. Planning and scheduling helps us to cleverly utilise our resources, which gives rise to focus and will, and therefore SUCCESS. This prevents us from becoming habitually frozen or stuck in our ways. If we allow ourselves to be frozen in fear, or second guessing our intuition and being overwhelmed by the possibility of making the wrong choice, we squander our potential, our resources and our ability for an Incredible Life. Setting our Priorities, Planning them into our days, weeks and months and Scheduling our time allows us to use our resources in a way that brings true manifestation into our reality. It allows us to connect with our innate wisdom that informs us when is the best time to act and when is the best time to nurture and relax, filling up our resources once again.
Please remember that it  can take small steps to start off with.
It takes knowing our goals from the introspection that we have done and realising that the goals are a work in progress. That it often takes time to fully realise our goals, like the Sage this requires patience. We plan and schedule in all the steps that out intuition has told us we need to make to reach our top. Our goals might change as we walk the path to realise them, that is always OK. Allowing ourselves to shift and change even within in our stated priorities is what growth and transformation is all about.
Cultivating Incredible Health nourishes our resources.
These are the resources we use everyday to cultivate the changes we wish to actualise. They are the resources that support our SUCCESS. Therefore remember when you are planning your day, week and month (all three I do), to put in there daily body moving (exercise), foods that create vibrancy (normally fruits and veggies), time to be still and quite (shut off time), time to nurture our heart through interaction with others or loving ways to treat ourselves, decluttering an area of our home and cleaning a space in our house.
Go ahead, have fun with planning and scheduling. Set-up a morning routine that nurtures you for the day ahead, whether that is no computers for the first hour, 20 minutes of moving your body in some way, making a nourishing smoothie, meditating, checking in and setting your 3 Most Important Tasks, enjoying a nice cup of chia/tea/coffee while listening to your favourite music. The morning sets the tone for our day, so making time to nurture ourselves and set our priorities to utilise our resources that day will set you up for an Incredible Life Every Day!
Here's to you SUCCESS, you can do actualise all you want and far more with those three simple but powerful tools.
This immense work helps to birth our miracles into our world.
Blessings,
Alexandra and the Between Heaven and Earth family.