It is said that Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, once said this during his lifetime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I\u2019m about to do today? If the answer is \u2018no\u2019 for too many days in a row, then it\u2019s a sign that something needs to change.\u201d<\/p>\n
This really makes you think.<\/p>\n
If today were my last day… I definitely wouldn\u2019t be doing laundry, cleaning, or cooking meals\u2014haha.<\/p>\n
Instead, I\u2019d spend my time playing with my kids, driving to see breathtaking views, or enjoying delicious food.<\/p>\n
So, what about my current daily life? Am I prioritizing what I want to do? Or am I being controlled by what I have to do rather than what I want to do\u2026?<\/p>\n
My family has routines too, and realistically, you can\u2019t only do what you want every day, but the successful and creative people I know seem to, like Steve Jobs, place more importance on what they want to do than what they have to do<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The best example close to me is my husband, who seems to be very strict about \u201cdoing what he wants when he wants to do it\u201d and \u201cnot doing what he doesn\u2019t want to do, or changing it to another way\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And as for me, the overly serious one, for the past 10 years or so, I\u2019ve been repeatedly told by my husband, \u201cBreak your daily routine<\/strong>\u201d \u2014 haha.<\/p>\n I know it\u2019s true, but changing habits ingrained over many years isn\u2019t easy. Still, by imitating the behavior patterns of successful people, I want to get even a little closer to that world.<\/p>\n Today, I want to write about that.<\/p>\n Since I was a child, I\u2019ve had a strong desire to be free from others telling me what to do<\/strong>. To achieve that, I developed a pattern of finishing what I had to do before doing what I wanted to do<\/strong> over many years.<\/p>\n For example, \u201cfinishing summer vacation homework by the end of July\u201d and \u201cstudying on my own to get an average grade of about 4.5 out of 5 so my parents wouldn\u2019t nag me about going to prep school or cram school.\u201d<\/p>\n Because of that, my parents stopped nagging me except about curfew.<\/p>\n Even after becoming a working adult in sales, I believed that if I produced results that my boss couldn\u2019t argue with, I could have freedom<\/strong>, so I focused on delivering results, which allowed me quite a bit of freedom in my daily activities and sales methods.<\/p>\n Also, since producing results earned me recognition and increased monthly allowances and bonuses, prioritizing what I had to do before what I wanted to do<\/strong> became my winning formula.<\/p>\n That winning formula of mine was shaken by one thing: raising children.<\/p>\n When my eldest daughter was about three years old, I gave birth to my second child and, due to various changes at work, I decided to put work on hold for a few years and focus on child-rearing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Until then, I was surrounded by entrepreneurs and hardworking working moms, with a mountain of tasks to accomplish every day, feeling fulfilled. Suddenly, I found myself in a circle of full-time housewife moms, picking up my child at 2 p.m. and going to the park together.<\/p>\n At first, I honestly felt quite lost.<\/strong> I stopped working during the hours I used to work, felt guilty as if I was slacking off, experienced emptiness with no sense of accomplishment or progress, and felt anxious being left behind while others thrived at work.<\/p>\n Many emotions swirled inside me, and time passed without me being able to sort them out well.<\/p>\n Later, I started working a little again and began this Porsche blog, which gradually brought some excitement back into my daily life.<\/p>\n Still, most days were dominated by my newborn second daughter, and I couldn\u2019t make any progress on what I wanted to do, ending the day feeling frustrated and unfulfilled.<\/p>\n Around this time, I began to sense that the winning formula of \u201cdo what you have to do first to gain freedom\u201d no longer worked<\/strong>, and my husband often gave me this advice:<\/p>\n You should stop living by a routine from the moment you wake up.<\/strong> It\u2019s better to be flexible and adapt to the situation of the day. Sometimes you can\u2019t do what you planned, and if you don\u2019t feel like doing something now, you can postpone it. Even if you don\u2019t finish your tasks for the day, it\u2019s not the end of the world. Instead, try doing what you want at that moment and spend your time feeling better. I never say \u201chang in there,\u201d and I actually think you don\u2019t have to push yourself. If you can\u2019t cook dinner that day, I\u2019ll just eat out, so no need to force it. You have to stop living a life frustrated by being tied down to routines.<\/strong><\/p>\n Exactly. I understand this deeply in my head, but changing ingrained habits and long-standing success patterns is very difficult.<\/p>\n This won\u2019t do. As they say, \u201cGet out of your comfort zone,\u201d because there\u2019s no growth in a comfortable space!<\/p>\n I tell myself this (while ironically trying hard not to try too hard\u2026 haha), consciously working on it like rehab, gradually getting used to the discomfort, and after several years, I think I\u2019ve gotten a little better than before.<\/p>\n Recently, I\u2019ve realized that breaking routines leads to discoveries, and often things go better because of it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For example, when I\u2019m writing my blog and my kids keep talking to me endlessly, I used to say, \u201cHey! I\u2019m busy now, later!\u201d<\/strong> and send them away, but if I stop and listen or play with them, they get satisfied and stop bothering me.<\/p>\n Or, washing dishes all the time to keep the sink clean takes more time than washing them all at once after a while.<\/p>\n These are very small things, but I realized that what I had always thought of as \u201cthings I must do and finish first\u201d<\/strong> weren\u2019t really that important, and changing how I do things depending on the situation often leads to finishing faster.<\/p>\n It\u2019s said that \u201cIt\u2019s not the strongest who survive, but those who adapt to change.\u201d<\/strong> Until now, I thought \u201cpeople who adapt to change are those who can make big changes at turning points with courage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n But now I think \u201cpeople who can adapt to change are those who can make small changes in their daily habits before making big changes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Changing daily habits is much harder and has a bigger impact on oneself than making once-in-a-lifetime big decisions every few years.<\/p>\n I believe successful people are those who can change daily.<\/strong> They don\u2019t cling to routines or get stuck; they flexibly change their style. They rarely fall into unconscious thoughtlessness in their daily actions, keep their purpose in mind, and constantly create better ways.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why creativity and ingenuity are honed daily, and the accumulation of those days makes a big difference. About this, my husband says:<\/p>\n There are people who maintain their condition or calm their minds by following routines, so there are obviously good aspects to it.<\/strong> In my case, my mentor during my repeat-year of high school told me, \u201cStudy when you want to. If you don\u2019t want to, don\u2019t. Studying when you don\u2019t want to won\u2019t be effective anyway.\u201d<\/strong> From around then, I think I became able to live more flexibly. I try not to live a life stuck in a mold and question each \u201cI have to do this\u201d or \u201cI must do that,\u201d thinking from scratch whether that\u2019s really true before acting. So sometimes I put things off, and other times I complete things with incredible focus. It\u2019s like living only doing what I want or absolutely need to do now. People might say, \u201cYou can do that because you\u2019re not a salaryman,\u201d but I\u2019ve been like this since my salaryman days. I was probably a difficult employee for my bosses (laughs).<\/p>\n I\u2019m a serious, routine-loving person, but this year I want to break free from that and live more flexibly and without attachment.<\/p>\n Alright, let\u2019s do this! \u2026 or maybe I don\u2019t have to push myself so hard\u2014haha.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u4e16\u9593\u7684\u306b\u306f\u3044\u308f\u3086\u308b\u6210\u529f\u8005\u3068\u8a00\u308f\u308c\u308b\u30dd\u30eb\u30b7\u30a7\u30aa\u30fc\u30ca\u30fc\u306e\u592b\u306b\u3001\u6210\u529f\u306b\u5fc5\u8981\u306a\u4eba\u8108\u3065\u304f\u308a\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u306e\u8003\u3048\u65b9\u3092\u805e\u3044\u3066\u307f\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002\u304a\u91d1\u3092\u7a3c\u304e\u3001\u6210\u529f\u3059\u308b\u306b\u306f\u3001\u672c\u5f53\u306b\u4eba\u8108\u3065\u304f\u308a\u304c\u5fc5\u8981\u306a\u306e\u304b\u3001\u554f\u3046\u305f\u8a18\u4e8b\u3002","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.panamera-life.com\/?p=21586"},"categories":[268],"tags":[194],"yoast_head":"Breaking Free from Routine<\/h3>\n
Successful People Change Daily<\/h3>\n