Note, I did not say “daily grind”.
A daily grid, is a set of good behaviors practiced daily. A routine designed to provide order, calm, peace to your day.
I like symmetry and order in my environment. It brings me visual calmness. Clutter, visual clutter, makes me feel anxious, unsettled.
My day always starts with coffee. A steaming mug of hot coffee and hot milk, mixed together. Okay a few of these really gets my day rolling. I start with milk, 1percent. Fill mug halfway with the milk. Microwave for 1.5 minutes. Add hot brewed coffee. Drink. Sip. Close eyes and say good morning to the world. Drink and sip some more. Add more coffee to keep it hot. Eyes begin to blink themselves awake. I really love coffee. I used to be able to do this full throttle, caffeine all the way. Now, my body, in its fifties, is more sensitive to caffeine. I get too jittery. I have switched to a homemade blend of regular and decaf. I still get my coffee routine in the morning without the insanity the rest of the morning.
I sit in an old orange crushed velvet chair purchased at a yard sale for five dollars years ago. (that price included a matching footstool, which now lives in my living room.) I have dubbed this “my reading chair”.
You might think the orange is really ugly, but surprisingly, in a room with mostly blue and aqua, it actually looks very regal.
I write in a journal. It is a very non-fancy 70 page spiral notebook, college-ruled pages. I try to write three pages of long-hand stream of consciousness. That means I just put words on the page. They aren’t always spelled right. They are not complete sentences. It is just a brain dump. Whatever comes to my mind first thing in the morning.
Worries, fears, anxieties, regrets, joys, victories, dreams, thoughts, lists of things to do. I just get it all on the pages as fast as I can.
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