Important realization: constancy in schedule is quite vital for consistent daily routine

Obvious-in-hindsight realization, that if one wants to have a decent, predictable and fun timetable, then the activities need to go into 'predictable' time slots. What that means is: if there's a yoga class at 2.30-4.30 slot one day, and 6.30-8.30 slot the next, it becomes quite challenging to plan one's activities around it. Because the rest of the world does not adjust its schedule for you, and people tend to work on fixed routines. So if you've got a variable routine by design, aligning your workflow to everyone else's becomes extra complicated. I've come to realize this after taking almost 3 weeks of yoga classes and trying to figure out a predictable routine. The conclusion is this: going to different yoga classes is fine as long as they are in near-ish time blocks. My current approach, which is to go whenever looks cool is not sustainable in the long term, because it makes planning everything else quite challenging. Like, how does one even make dinner plans, or organize walks etcetera if the routine is so unknown?

The difference between my yoga classes and art class is that with my art class, I know where I'm going to every day, and it does not divide my block of free time into two chunks. So even if it's a big time commitment once a week, it doesn't feel that way. Yes, yoga classes happen more often and they're all I've given into now, but even then I could 'fit them' into my schedule better if I knew, for example, that I'd be gone from 4-6, or 5-7 or whatever it is, daily. Instead of it being variable. This should have been clearer to me from the get-go, but this was an experiment after all, and the idea was to push me to the limits, I guess, so no loss here.

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