How to cheat the boring routine.
Adulting is a handful and I can say this because that’s the phase I’m at, work, work, save, invest, bills, responsibilities, achieving goals, and the boring routine of sleep wake up, work, eat, sleep and so on but there’s a way to cheat the boring routine I mean life should be more than this. ♀️
Lately, I’ve been reminded of who I used to be, countlessly. it’s a pity how adulthood and life happens and we get carried away in chasing things that will help us live the life we dream about and unconsciously crush the creative or unique individual that we are, embedded with gifts and talents that the world is yet to see or imagine.
And in all honesty that’s the true essence of life, living not just existing.(Working hard, paying bills, settling debts, family bills,) In all these I was able to thinker out ways I can cheat this boring routine of adulting and really live life to the fullest. Here are five ways to do it.
5 ways on how to cheat the boring routine
1. Do what you love for work
Time waits for no one as we all know, when we keep sacrificing the work we love for the one that pays the bills everyday it becomes a boring routine, waking up to go to work becomes a dilemma however life should not be lived like that because you begin to exist rather than to truly live, when you do the work you love and are passionate about, it hardly ever gets boring because you find joy, happiness and fulfillment in what you do. It’s true that adulting is not easy but we can finda way around it.
The hard truth is money is good but abandoning your dreams, ambitions and aspirations for money is not worth it.
Life is best lived doing the things you love and really you don’t have to sacrifice so much before you start doing it in your own little way.
2. Live the life you dream and talk about
We always put a timeline to when we want to do certain things especially when it comes to our self, our dreams or things we want to learn we tend to put it off. But to truly live is to live the life you dream about and not just living it in our imaginations. So I’m saying start living the life, if it means going out each month or twice a year or taking that trip we’ve always planned, and envisioned or getting that luxury we always talk about.
Living a life of luxury is not about the big things, you go to a hotel and you are amazed at the decor and would want to spend a whole week there, where as you could upgrade your own home and be intentional about the decor.
Or buying luxury yes you may not afford the big things but there are little luxuries you can enjoy. Lighting your house like you see in fancy hotels, getting artifacts that make your room stand out, going monochrome when it comes to color and design of your house, a warm scented bath, regular manicure and pedicure.
Or you love music and want to someday be a musician yet you’ve never gone out of your way to try, like going for auditions, getting the instrument you’ve always desired to learn.
3. Take a break from the routine be spontaneous
Do something you’ve been planning to do, go on a trip, go on a date, go outing once in a while. The whole idea is to be spontaneous you don’t need to break the bank to do thoughtful and adventurous things, it could be going to the beach, it could be going to the cinema, or visiting an art gallery, going for exhibitions or shows, things are make you feel alive and come alive.
It’s important to take that break because it gives your mind the time to refresh and recalibrate, in doing so you feel less tensed and you feel more relaxed. I can’not but over emphasis on the importance of having fun because these memories make life more interesting and enjoyable. Like I said earlier it’s important to live the life that you dream of or talk about.
4. Be intentional about your choices, prioritize selfcare
Prioritize yourself most of the time, think of yourself first, it may sound selfish but it’s necessary to be intentional about your choices, you are the only person that can truly look out for your self and do things in your best interest. If you don’t take care of yourself no one will. Adulting is looking out for yourself as you look out for others.
Lately I’ve been intentional about self-care, I set a goal for myself on that which I’m actually achieving little by little. Getting that expensive hair, getting yourself that new shoe, getting yourself that beautiful dress or shirt you screenshoted while window shopping online. Do things for yourself it’ll make you feel good about yourself, it’s not about impressing people and showing but giving yourself the little treats you expect other people to do for you.
5. Find a balance
To create a balance, In as much as it’s vital to do what you are passionate about in aspect of work, there’s also the necessity to do what pays the bills. It’s called adulting or adulthood, I’ve come to learn that being reasonable and being rational are two different things that work in two different scenarios and most times we often mix up our choice of action by being reasonable instead of being rational when you should be reasonable or a mixture of both.
To be fair something’s we love to do are not the big things that yield much income in our present day, this varies. But to blindly say you want to do what you love can be injurious or vice versa, on one hand you end up weakening the passion or causing slow progress of mastery and on the other hand you become good at it but suffer a great deal or live meagerly.
Well people can decide to do whatever they want. So as much as it’s important to to live and do what you enjoy we remember that we live in a world that daily demands from us our strength, resources, time, effort, talent and money. It’s important to create a balance but trust me when I say it’s frustrating.
So it’s okay if you have a goal and your working towards it but it’s more important to live while you still have life. As much as you can try to live the life you really want.
In the long run I’ve come to realize life will be full of regrets because you never truly lived, you were only busy doing or chasing after the things (job security, money, luxury, comfort) you thought you needed.
Picasso became Picasso by not being anybody else but himself and not doing anything else than the thing he loved (painting).
It feels like I’ve wasted much time and beginning to regret how much time has been wasted but nonetheless we are working towards a goal.
This adulthood eh! They never briefed us. Adulting is really a stage of life where on takes up full responsibility of their life, you can’t blame anyone for not living your life, you can blame the situation but it still falls back to you. Trust me I understand how much of a struggle it can be that’s why I’m writing this to encourage you to take a break when needed, do the things you love, to look after yourself, your health because at the end of the day you are all you’ve got and creating a balance that’s the only way we can make it work or live in this adulthood without being frustrated.
You can also read Adulting || The Longing for companionship
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Adulthood || The Transitioning Part1
Also visit this blog to read:
https://paulkaywrites.blog/2024/04/18/what-i-learned-about-quality-v-quantity/
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