Just Plain Lazy

I love to relax. I love to sleep.  I think that my couch is sad when I don’t lay on it, at least, two times a day.  I don’t need an excuse to “unwind”.  I just do.  This is healthy.  We always find ourselves in a fast paced world surrounded by fast paced people trying to cram in everything all at once.  So to be able to let yourself just sit and relax is very important.  But when is it enough?

There is relaxing and there is just plain lazy.  Yes, we should all de-stress and relax, but no, you shouldn’t let the laundry pile up until you are out of underwear.  So when do you draw the line?  You draw it with time.  Just like de-stressing you need to find the time to do your housework.  If you can’t find the time MAKE the time.  Take off of work early and schedule time to fold clothing and sweep the floor.  Then put in time to relax.

A typical (perfect) day would be:

• 7:30am wake up and get ready for the day
• 8:30am off to work
• noon eat lunch at one of my quiet spots to relax
• 1:15pm arrive back to work a little late from lunch, explain you had a very important meeting that ran over
• 5:15pm LEAVE WORK; this means leave it behind, as much as you can leave it there … it had it’s time
• 1.5 hours for dinner
• .5 hours clean up one room in the house
• 1 hour to “veg out”
• .5 (at least) to just be quiet
• Bed.

Think you need more time?  Maybe spend two hours cleaning and an hour of quiet time. Or if the kids/work/partner are being extra demanding have quiet time during cleaning.  The more you let the people who care about you into your schedule, the more they will become flexible in their lives for it.  It can be a challenge to introduce a “rigid” schedule into your life, but you will find that “rigid” part slips away to habit.  With your good habits formed you will find yourself with all the time in the world to get it done, stress-free.

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