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how many people here in ns general work, live, play in farely stable routine?

i have moved a couple of times and every time you move your routine is always screwed up, kind of makes it hard to get back into routine. i also get alot more done if i am in a routine, i dont sit around wondering what to do next.

The good thing about routines is they are predictable. I know what I'll be doing this Saturday afternoon, so I don't have to make additional plans.

The bad thing is, it can be boring. I'm past due for something to shake things up a bit.

The bad thing is, it can be boring. I'm past due for something to shake things up a bit.I pretty much live in one, and I definitely think it's boring at times. However, I'm too bloody lazy to make myself go out and do things I otherwise would. The most I ever do that's out of my normal routine is occasionally dragging myself out to the coffee shop on a weeknight rather than reading or hanging about here.

I have a schedule and routine, and I hate it most of the time, but with all I have going on I really have to schedule everything down to the little bitty details or everything will fall apart.

Everything I do from the moment I wake up to the minute I go to bed it scheduled. I have a set amount of time to get everything done, it's all very structured. I don't think the kids notice too much though, and when they do it makes them feel secure.

I don't have a routine on purpose. Unfortunately, with school and work, every week seems to follow a general pattern.

I am pretty susceptible to anxiety and depression problems, and I don't want to take medicine. Creating routines is a good way to stave off anxiety, and it allows you to be able to count on time for yourself to do things that are also good for mental health (exercise, doing something enjoyable, relaxing, journaling, whatever).

I am pretty susceptible to anxiety and depression problems, and I don't want to take medicine. Creating routines is a good way to stave off anxiety, and it allows you to be able to count on time for yourself to do things that are also good for mental health (exercise, doing something enjoyable, relaxing, journaling, whatever).

oo ur like me.
but i don't care if im depressed or not

I am pretty susceptible to anxiety and depression problems, and I don't want to take medicine. Creating routines is a good way to stave off anxiety, and it allows you to be able to count on time for yourself to do things that are also good for mental health (exercise, doing something enjoyable, relaxing, journaling, whatever).
yeah, I think that's what started my whole routine thing, when I was in the 8th grade I got suspended from school and had to finish out the year at home, and they told me that to fight my depression and anxiety that I should plan everything out, that way I know both what is coming up and don't have to worry about it, and also that I won't have time to sit around and be depressed.

I have my day scheduled out even down to when I have free time, some people get annoyed by it, but it helps me a lot, so I have decided I don't care.

I have a routine and love it, change is scary.

Yep, wake up, school, work, then free time.

Yes, I'm currently living in what you could call a routine.

I wake up, eat, do the dishes, take a shower, and do nothing all day (I really don't count using my computers and watching TV as "doing" anything) until I get tired and go to sleep. And once in a blue moon I'm able to get out of the house, but I never do things with other people.

Sort of difficult when your dad dictates every aspect of your life.

Wake up--breakfast--dress--school--home--homework--study--internet--shower--sleep

Repeat as necessary.

i find i get bored quickly with routines so i have to change them. i rarely do that conciousy tho. about the only thing i always do the same is i always eat my breakfast before having a shower but the times i do that can range from about 8am to 7pm (like today). i have a very messed up sleeping pattern (comes of working in a nightclub 3 nights a week and having exclusively morning lectures the rest of the week) so a routine is pretty impossible to get into, unless i go home - and then i get restless. i always find that all the different things that happen and all the different opportunities that present themselves everyday make a routine restrictive and undesirable.

I'm naturally routined. I don't need to write it down or anything, I just organize myself. Down to the minute. I hate change, so it works for me.

Well, in a way i have a routine i guess, but its not really a real routine... I mean, i have classes, and home (working on getting a job), but if I raelly get into a routine, i get really bored with it (that takes a while though). I'm guessing its because i've moved a lot in my life, the longest that i've lived in one place is 5 years (and i felt that was way too long and was really happy to move).

Much of my routine is dictated by stuff that's out of my control. I have to spend most of my weekdays at my job, if I want to afford my reasonably nice house and computer to post on NS with. I have to go out with my GF on Saturday because that's when neither of us have to work. I have to drive my mom around on Sunday. By that time, I don't have much time to do new stuff, so I stick with the old stuff then too. :(

Actually I changed my routine fairly recently. Before I would get home and do my homework immediately, but now I come on NS and do my thing.

Actually I changed my routine fairly recently. Before I would get home and do my homework immediately, but now I come on NS and do my thing.

I've substitued NS for other websites, and TV watching that I used to do in the evenings.

I've substitued NS for other websites, and TV watching that I used to do in the evenings.
I never used to come online. I was sheltered like that.

In a way. I just don't do anything. It creates a fairly uniform schedule for each day.

I think that if a routine is being used to accomplish something then fine, but otherwise I don’t have much use for it. I like things to just happen. There’s times when you need a routine (so you get to work with more than two hours sleep) or work out to stay in shape. Too much routine can be unhealthy too though, because things that you should enjoy start becoming stale.

Yeah. My week - Uni, work, work, uni, uni, work then go out, hangover, repeat.

:p

how many people here in ns general work, live, play in farely stable routine?

i have moved a couple of times and every time you move your routine is always screwed up, kind of makes it hard to get back into routine. i also get alot more done if i am in a routine, i dont sit around wondering what to do next.

Are kidding me?!? I don't even believe in the 24-hour cycle. :p

I have no routine, It is actually illegal to here in Carisbrooke, we live the simple life, free from the contraints of time and doing stuff

how many people here in ns general work, live, play in farely stable routine?

i don't like routine, nor do i strive for it, especially in work; but that said i do manage to slip into routine far too easily :(
my routine here at home is boring as hell... its not so much a timed routine but one based around actions... all the same every day. bah :-S

The good thing about routines is they are predictable. I know what I'll be doing this Saturday afternoon, so I don't have to make additional plans.

The bad thing is, it can be boring. I'm past due for something to shake things up a bit.
I would add to this that having a routine helps you put yourself on "auto-pilot" to free your mind to think about things which require actual thought.

Routines can indeed be boring when they're almost all you have. I, above all people know this because for awhile now, most of the things I do have been "routinized." This will last ony as long as it takes me to pay for this car I'm bying. In the meantime, NS General keeps me on my toes. :D

Luckily, I lose my job and reverse my sleeping patterns so often that forming a routine is practically impossible.