Daily routines

[Ulysses]

Do you like them? When there's a set routine, I know what I'm going to do in the future and can prepare myself for it in advance. It also lets me relax when I know that I haven't got anything important to do. These are just a couple of reasons why I like routines. I don't always follow them through, though. Sometimes I might not feel up to the planned event and may end up going for the lazier option instead.

What about you guys?

 

[echoplex]

Generally, no I don't. They make me feel pressured and controlled, and I end up watching the clock too much, which makes me nervous. My dream is to live in a world without time, without clocks. In fact, it's probably my reluctance to deal with time constraints that makes me a P instead of a J, as I'm J about some things.

 

[Ulysses]

I have had to follow schedules in past where I had very little time and lots to do, and I also felt the same way about time.

My routines on the other hand don't have set times. They're just a bunch of things that usually I do on a particular day. For example, I might wake up at 10 AM on some weekends, and anywhere between 11 AM and 1 PM on other weekends.

After looking at Ermine's post below, I'm thinking that my idea of a daily routine is very different. Still, I think that the majority will go for the second poll option.

 

[Ermine]

I don't enjoy routines, but they help me get much more done. When I'm left to my own devices, not much gets done.

 

[brain enclosed in flesh]

I have had to follow schedules in past where I had very little time and lots to do, and I also felt the same way about time.

My routines on the other hand don't have set times. They're just a bunch of things that usually I do on a particular day. For example, I might wake up at 10 AM on some weekends, and anywhere between 11 AM and 1 PM on other weekends.

After looking at Ermine's post below, I'm thinking that my idea of a daily routine is very different. Still, I think that the majority will go for the second poll option.

I'm with you. My personal routine is more like- how I expect to spend my time today vs. 'from 11:30-noon I will collate data for the Henderson account.'
It may seem pretty loose and fluid; most people would consider me to have zero routine at all, but if someone steps in out of the blue and says, "let's do this instead," it triggers some anxiety and irritation on my part.

On the other hand, strict timetable schedules may as well not exist as far as I'm concerned. So many times in my life I have tried to be strict and disciplined about it, spent days writing out the perfect daily planner, but when I go to implement it, I'll follow it for maybe twenty minutes and then completely forget about it, back to the ol' routine of intuitive schlep.

 

[meshram.alok]

Completely abhor routines unless I have planned them and there seems to be some positive implications from them.

I am a HUGE slacker. I often wonder how I get work done. But then I do it anyways.

 

[del]

I like serial routines, if that makes sense.

For instance, I like in college where my schedule completely changes every three months and I don't have the same classes/labs every day. It's cyclic routine and varied, not just doing the same thing and filling out the same TPS reports all day for five days a week. It's enough to stabilize me but not really bore me.

Because when left to my own devices, I start to do about 324875 things, but NONE of them get done, lol.

 

[merzbau]

the issue of routine gives me a dreadful paradox, and i think this is similar for many intps.
when i have to get up every day and do the same thing week in, week out, i start feeling like my life is slowly disappearing before my eyes, i think about how it would be to follow the same routine for twenty years, and am suddenly gripped by the fear that my life will go nowhere.
but when i'm not forced to have a regular, set routine to follow every day, i feel slightly lost, and my day can evaporate before i can distill anything out of it. or something.

 

[Venture]

I have had to follow schedules in past where I had very little time and lots to do, and I also felt the same way about time.

My routines on the other hand don't have set times. They're just a bunch of things that usually I do on a particular day. For example, I might wake up at 10 AM on some weekends, and anywhere between 11 AM and 1 PM on other weekends.

After looking at Ermine's post below, I'm thinking that my idea of a daily routine is very different. Still, I think that the majority will go for the second poll option.

This is also how I am with routines and also with Ermine's post too.
I do hate not knowing what I have to do and when this is mainly why I like schedules, that and if I don't a schedule I will most times get nothing done.

 

[QSR]

Yeah routines are probably good for people like us. I have a hard time with sticking to a routine for more than about 3-4 months, which is probably about as long as I should have a job at any one place. Otherwise I become complacent and bored. I have to have some changes at a more macro level. I do have some addictions, but I tend to feed them in different ways every day. There's a couple of events I'll attend every week because I really enjoy participating in them, and it gives a slight structure to my week. Right now I probably need a lot more structure, though.

 

[naberus]

I love routines and structure... often very lazy about doing them (at least some of them anyways).

 

[Tyria]

I enjoy having structure, and knowing what I can and cannot do. I hate having to adhere to things though; I prefer to find the best way to do something and follow through with it. As long as it is legal and everything else, it should not matter how you choose to do things.