6 Things to Do the Same Time Every Week — Especially If You’re A Student
Schedules make life predictable.
But your schedule as a student likely looks very different every week. Your lectures and appointments do not always fall on the same hour every week, and therefore, your study sessions and other activities also fall on different hours. Even so, this does not apply to everything.
Here are things that are better left up to routine and repetition.
1: Waking up
Your sleep determines a lot about your life.
Sleep too little, and you become tired and unfocused. Sleep too much, and you become groggy and lazy. Wake up at different hours every day, and the rest of your routine becomes unbalanced and unreliable.
As a friend of mine says: Wake up whenever you want, just do it consistently.
2: Eating your meals
There are several benefits to eating meals at the same hour every week.
One, you can train your body to become accustomed to routine. Two, you can avoid relying on impulses and sudden desires to determine when and what you eat. Three, you can plan your meals ahead of time and thus save a lot of time and money.
It makes for easier, healthier, and less costly student living.
3: Cleaning
Many students use cleaning as a way to procrastinate.
By cleaning their home on impulse, they make cleaning an urgent rather than an important task. Therefore, instead of using cleaning to postpone other important things like studying or working out, dedicate a specific hour or two to the task and get it done. Following this kind of routine saves time too.
Stop putting out small fires, and instead work to keep your home fireproof instead.
4: Doing the dishes
Clean dishes can be your best friend, and dirty ones your worst enemy.
You eat several meals every day and spend a myriad of cups, utensils, plates, and pans in the process. To avoid compounding your dirty dishes, schedule a specific time of day to do the dishes — preferably right after your last meal of the day. That way, you always have clean dishes for the morning to come.
Remove that hurdle in a couple of minutes.
5: Working out
Exercise embraces the idea of scheduled progress.
It is about building results over a longer period of time, with small improvements each time. These small improvements need to be consistent for them to have any effect. In other words, you need to make working out a routine-based habit.
Make working out consistent by doing it at the same times every week.
6: Tracking your expenses
Budgeting is the line between wasting and saving money.
The best way to keep track of your expenses and income is to keep track of it as often as possible. Doing it daily might be a waste of time, because if you have a budget, you likely don’t spend money that much at all each day. So dedicate some time at the end of the week to keep your budget tight.
Track your expenses and save money.
Just do it weekly.
