How do you incorporate new activities into your routine?

I set up apps or lists to ring me this time I do this kind of work out.

Do you have gym mates? Staying with some clubs maybe easier to consistent.

 

I put my priorities in my calendar, and then I simply do what is in my calendar. Unstructured free time is when I have tended to get into trouble, so I do not allow myself to have any of that.

Periodically, I will assess my priorities to make sure they are still accurate for my actual reality.

If you do not make time for it, it will never happen.

 

Maybe not as straight forward as the previous posters, I just let it flow. Mind you, I'm currently going through emotional turmoil (pmo is the result, not the cause), and I see I have had a lot of resistance in the past because of my emotional states: "I just don't feel like it".

Little by little, however, as I progressed through my emotional healing, I noticed two things:
1) I began to develop new habits I wasn't ever interested in
2) Resistance is subsiding in some areas

1) As example, I felt one day like buying a bicycle, about two months ago. Now I cannot stay in the house in the morning, I go for 15-20 km rides every day, interspersed with reading books on park benches in the town centre. That for me is difficult to understand because I only learnt to ride a bike a few days before buying the bike, I mostly read in the house and I always hated to be alone in the public (pathetic, right?)

2) I'd always say "I'll clean the flat tomorrow" and then have new life forms taking over my kitchen two weeks later. Since working on dealing with emotional pain, this has changed radically, to the point where I don't feel comfortable if the kitchen is not clean and the bathroom is properly organised in the evening. I also picked up yoga and I'm surprised about it, because I never thought it would make me feel good, content.

I think our minds know naturally what's good for us and steer us in the right way, but the mind is tired with the emotional exhaustion. Once the exhaustion is cleared up, resistance will be lower and we will naturally come to a state of well being, doing things that feel natural, normal, simple. I no longer make plans about any of my intentions, they just happen and make me happy. I truly have no idea what to do tomorrow, but I gather I'll go for a bike ride again... and probably read.