Organizing your Life
There are several different aspects of your life, which we generally group into our home life, our work, our spirituality, and our play time / time to relax. That is a paradigm which has worked very well for most people for a very long time, where we have four basic, distinct ‘lives’ that we work through.
Unfortunately, we really only have one life. Everything that we do when we’re taking on one role also affects our other roles.
For instance, if you get in a fight with your spouse, you work will be affected, and the more severe or uncommon the fight, the more that your work will change. You could suddenly find a burst of motivation from that fight, but more often than not, your work will suffer dramatically. If you injure yourself while playing a sport, it will affect your mobility, and every other aspect of your life. Oddly enough, there are plenty of people who have actually been able to separate their spiritual lives from the rest of their life. Don’t ask me how they did it, though. 
The division of our lives into four distinct groups comes from the different schedules that we all keep. Our work life is seemingly the most separate from the other aspects, simply because we usually have a very rigid, predictable schedule for when we work, yet it takes about a third of each weekday, about half of our waking hours, for several years. That certainly is a huge chunk of our lives to completely sever from the rest of our life. Our home life also consists of when we’re asleep, so about eight hours just don’t count. One has to be conscious of experiences to actually be experiencing something. Our play time is usually relegated to a couple of hours every few days, and the more stressed out that we become, the less often we take the time to play. Again, spirituality seems to take a back seat, getting only one day per week, or only fifty-two days out of the year, and even then, our actual observance tends to be restricted to an hour or so during that one day. If you only worked for fifty-two hours each year, how much would you get paid?
So, the challenge that I’m going to work on is to mix my different distinct ‘lives’ together. I’ll be mixing work and play (programming can be fun, if you are creative with your comments… just keep the code legible. ). I’ll be mixing home life and play, as well as throwing in a couple of home responsibilities into the down times at work. All throughout, I’ll also be keeping a spiritual mindset, meditating for half an hour before bed, working on hard questions while exercising, and throwing a bit of my own brand of spirituality into my play time. Also, since I’m a consultant, I am not tied to a clock nearly as rigidly as many of my other peers, which means that I have more time to mix things up.
Since the human mind loves to organize things, though, I’ll still need to keep to some sort of schedule. Rather than an hourly schedule, though, I’ll be working from a daily schedule. I’ll have tasks for each day of the week, and each day will be devoted to certain types of activities, rather than having each hour be different, yet every day remains the same. As far as the blog is concerned, I’ll have Mondays be devoted to personal improvement, where I post articles such as this one. Tuesdays, expect to find me looking elsewhere for information, such as an upcoming article that shows some insight that I have received from reading one of Kara-Leah’s short stories. Wednesdays, I come back to the self to work on inner peace. Thursdays, I’ll be going back out to the world at large, talking about either financial matters or blogging matters. Fridays, I’ll round out the week with a meditation technique, or perhaps a deeply philosophical discussion. Saturdays and Sundays are reserved for the more mundane aspects of blogging, such as code maintenance and adding modules, plugins, and widgets. If I update on the weekend, expect it to be a simple site update, letting you know of a new feature to try out.
I’ll be working on categorizing the days, rather than the hours, for the next four weeks as I test it out. I’ll keep everyone notified of the results as I go along. 
Until then, I need a catch phrase.
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