Rhythm and Routine

Currently Listening to: Comfortable by John Mayer

It's fall. Okay, technically its late summer. Nonetheless Carter is back in school, high school football kicked off last weekend and I'm trying to get used to going to the office 5 days a week.

There is something comforting about the fall, back to seeing everybody at the office, starting to make plans for the next summer and starting each morning with a good, strong, strong cup of coffee.

I don't know when it happens but somewhere in September I finally slip into that rhythm and routine of work and life and my productivity picks up. There is comfort in knowing that each day looks slightly the same and has enough predictability in it to allow for interruptions while still allowing me to check off the things on my to-do list.

But with consistency comes the dangerous potential downside of a rut. Somewhere between steady and stagnant sits an invisible line where the same thing over and over again can render me useless and listless.

So as this fall approaches, painfully slowly I might add, my challenge for me/us is to find a way to build enough of a schedule to allow us to be as productive as possible while also avoiding a level of rhythm and routine that renders us bored.