Adopting a daily routine is one of the best ways to increase your overall health and wellbeing in life.
Daily routines let us plan our lives, prioritizing and spending time on the things that matter the most.
Jim Rohn really said it best:
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”
There are many ways adopting a routine can contribute to massive health benefits. And in this post, you’re going to learn about a few of the most important ones.
Here are the five main health benefits that come from adopting a daily routine.
1. You’ll Be Less Stressed
Stress is our body’s response to mental or emotional pressure.
When we’re overwhelmed or feel threatened or powerless, our brains release a hormone called cortisol.
Cortisol is ‘the stress hormone’ and puts your body into fight-or-flight mode.
Believe it or not, we can reduce our stress by looking ahead and striving to solve the most significant potential issues before they become real issues.
Creating and adopting a routine isn’t necessarily easy.
You’re going to need to adopt powerful habits and use them to replace ‘bad’ habits that keep you stressed out and behind the curve.
For example, getting up 20 minutes earlier to be early for work, instead of 10 minutes later and always being tardy.
But you gain a massive benefit from this effort.
When you start prioritizing crucial aspects of your life, you create a routine. You’ll soon find that along with accomplishing your more essential tasks, you feel much less stress.
Nothing soothes stress like knowing you finished your tasks and that there are fewer things to worry about in the future.
2. Your Sleep Patterns Will Improve
Observing routine sleep maintenance is superb for your quality of rest.
Adopt a consistent routine where you go to bed and wake up at the same time each day. You’ll find that your quality of sleep and your sleeping patterns will improve drastically.
Sleep is an essential pillar to a healthy, successful life. If we don’t get enough sleep, we’ll always struggle to feel good and perform at our best.
When you start creating a routine and living by it daily, sleep habits are generally one of the first things to improve.
It takes willpower to stop scrolling through social media and watching shows on your tablet until the small hours of the morning. But the determination it takes to set up a schedule and routine is the perfect vehicle for taking your sleeping habits more seriously.
3. Your Diet Will Get Better
When you plan out your meals instead of making spur-of-the-moment diet choices, you’ll be able to adopt healthier eating habits in the long term.
Many people swing through the drive-through or reach for junk food because they don’t have the time to cook healthy meals. But this is just one issue that a well-designed routine can help to drop.
Plan out your days and prioritize time to shop and cook. Soon you’ll already have those activities built into your schedule.
That means little to no fast food or junk food unless you plan it out in advance.
4. You’ll Have More Time To Nurture Your Relationships
Maintaining positive relationships is a critical factor for health and wellness.
As humans, we’re social creatures.
And as such, it’s vital for us to spend time with the people we care about.
But a lot of busy people struggle to find a positive work-life balance. You find that after going to work and spending most of your time on their career, there isn’t much time left for friends and family.
Here’s the hard truth:
If you don’t take the time to plan out your valuable yet limited free time, you may never strike that delicate balance.
Create a consistent routine in which you schedule time to spend with friends and family. It will empower you to prioritize your relationships. You will also overcome the all-too-common problem of not finding time for loved ones.
5. Your Fitness Levels Will Improve
Adopting a regular fitness routine will contribute a great deal to workout/exercise consistency.
And this is excellent news for your health and wellness, as a lot of people struggle with workout consistency.
They struggle to keep it up, and for a good reason.
Working out is extremely difficult!
It takes hard work and effort to keep hitting the gym and pushing your body. And as a result, it can be easy to take a break when times get tough, life gets stressful, or you just plain feel stretched thin.
That’s where a routine can make the difference.
When you adopt a daily or weekly routine, you already have that workout built into it. It gives you an extra layer of insurance against losing the drive to keep up the good habits.
It gets even better when that routine becomes an actual habit in your life.
Conclusion
Yes, adopting a routine can be difficult at first. But if you stick with it, those new habits will help you to radically transform your time (and health) management skills for the better.
You have everything to gain from taking the time to sit down and schedule out the priorities of your life.
Look at it this way: we only have 24 hours in a day.
It’s time to make a plan, hit the ground running, and crush it like the strong, determined human you are.
Author bio:
Adam Marshall is a freelance writer who specializes in all things apartment organization, real estate, and college advice. He currently works with Grove at Ames to help them with their online marketing.
