Your Day Should Fit You

People often treat themselves as slaves to their day; they mold and push and rush themselves to conform to their day.In my opinion, your day should fit you. It should be geared to support you in being and doing exactly what and who you want to be.Are you run by your schedule or are you crafting your schedule?First, do what supports you in being who you want to be. If you want to write a book, do that and then make time for the dishes. If being a parent is most important, do that first. What is most meaningful at work, are you doing that first?Steve Chandler has a great definition of being busy, that it means that you did not start out the day being clear about what was most important or have a clear focus for the day, that you are letting the world run you.As Stephen Pressfield suggests in his amazing book, "The War of Art," we will prefer to do anything other than create our art, our most important expression into the world.Put these two together and we can see our busyness is often an avoidance at getting clear and expressing who we are into the world, or of being who you want to be.I block my schedule every week with all the things I want to do and be. I have time blocked for coaching, writing, yoga, the farmers market, horseback riding lessons, theatre, travel, etc. The busyness has to happen in-between my life, not first.If we are willing to plan our lives a little there is room for everything we want, but sometimes it is easier just to be busy.