CHAPTER 20. BENEFITS OF A DAILY ROUTINE
- Madhukar Dama
- Feb 15
- 3 min read
from our upcoming book Our Secret Book of Benefits
At our home, we all have an individual daily routine. This we follow everyday. It's disturbed a little only when we travel or when we have a guest. Even then, we try to maintain the routine as much as possible.
Look at my daily routine:
3 AM to 5 AM - Get-Up
3 AM to 6 AM - Write or read, yoga, meditation, contemplation, affirmation, special plans if any for the day
6 AM to 6:30 AM - Complete morning rituals - removing the bed, going to toilet, cleaning my mouth, washing my face
6:30 AM - Check all the areas of the garden for n ew germinations, flowering, fruiting, weeds, drying, damages or pests
7:00 AM - Start gardening work
8:00 AM - Have a break for black coffee with family. have small talks to know how my wife and daughters are, whether they have any new issue, what about yesterdays health issues, todays plans etc
8:15 AM - Take out all the kitchen leftovers and put into our composting barrel
8:30 AM - Go back to gardening and do heavier works like making new beds, watering, cleaning, composting
8:00 AM to 9:00 AM - Attend to visiting clients or those waiting for my phone call
11:00 AM - Have breakfast with family and have lots of fun
11:30 AM to 4:00 PM - Sit with children for teaching them Science, Computer, Mathematics, Biology, English, Philosophy, Geography, crafts etc
4:00 PM - Have a cup of kashaya with family
4:15 PM - Go to gardening or any other common work with entire family
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Take bath and wear fresh clothes
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Cook, have dinner with family and fun talks.
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Making bed, reading and going to sleep
8:00 PM to 3-5 AM - Sleep
I found that having a daily routine is the best way to have peace, freedom and health. As long as we are in a structured routine life like in a hostel as a student, in a job as an employee, in a jail as an inmate and so on; our mental and physical health remains good.
Daily routine is essential as it takes care of all the needs of our life:
Our body needs sunshine, clean air, movement, load, sweating, contact with water and earth everyday. This is taken care with my gardening works. You should have a daily outdoor physical activity. If you are in a sitting job, you must go out for 2-3 hours daily morning.
Our mind needs creative works. This is again taken care by the creativity involved in the gardening. In addition, I create many other works like sheds, blogs, books, articles, pamphlets, innovative solutions for health problems, innovative ways of living and so on. These creative works keeps my mental health good. Find something that you like to create and just do it daily. Remember that this is solely done for yourself. Don't confuse your job with your creativity.
As humans, we have an innate need to know what is life? Though, its impossible to find an answer, we go on trying it seems. This satisfies our need for imagination, mysticism, curiosity, spirituality, metaphysics and so on. I take care of this through reading and writing Philosophy. Read a few pages of philosophy daily.
That's all is necessary to do I believe. Because, after many years of developing and maintaining this routine, my life has been extremely peaceful.
As I live in a routine today; every coming day is automatically taken care of.
Good Day
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