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Powerful Daily Routines
One of the things that changed my life for the better during the last year was developing and sticking to so-called “daily routines”. These are simply a set of activities done in approximately same time of each day. I first came across the idea on Leo Babauta’s blog and became very interested in making this concept work for me.
Now that I have my daily routines up and running for more than six months I think it’s time to share my recipe of constant good mood and persistent feeling of accomplishment with the whole white world.
I’ll go through each part of a day one by one.
Morning
I begin my day getting up at about 6 a.m. Here I must confess that I always use “snooze” feature of my alarm clock. However this is not because I don’t have enough will to get up when I planned. What I do is set up alarm clock half an hour in advance of the time I actually need to wake up. I don’t know why but it gives me a huge pleasure to realize in my sleep that I have half an hour more to luxuriate in a warm bed. Anyway, after hitting “snooze” button for about 6-7 times I finally get up and run straight to the bathroom to wash up and brush my teeth.
Then goes yoga. As of today I spend about 30 minutes for doing 25 basic asanas. I know that it’s too fast of a tempo and I will definitely start doing it more slowly as soon as I teach myself to get up earlier. In the end I also do popular 8 minutes program for abdominals, the cheerful music from which is now the inseparable attribute of a morning for me.
Comprehensive Videos on How to Swim. Freestyle, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Backstroke
On these days I celebrated a small personal anniversary. It’s been one year since I started to attend swimming pool. Since one year ago my attitude to swimming have changed completely I should say. Instead of being afraid to death I’m now, well, an addict. While on the beginning I was concentrated on how to become durable to be able to swim at least a couple of pools without a break, now I’m interested in developing excellent technique. I’ve made some research on youtube and found 4 comprehensive video tutorials for each of swimming style. Here they are—right under the cut.
