Why Creating Routine Will Benefit Your Mental Health

Having routine in your life helps keeps you balanced and organized*. Life sometimes demands a lot that can be hard to manage all at once. Daily routine can be an important part of providing structure that can help you manage everything.

Daily routines can minimize the need to regularly schedule days ahead of time – meaning that if the routine is clear, you won’t have to take unnecessary time out of your day to plan for tomorrow*. Routine can also help us build good habits and good mental stability. Building habits can be much easier when it is built into a routine enough to the point that it becomes habitual.

When the day is already planned and organized, that can help reduce stress in many individuals. The routine can bring the sort of stability that can minimize the unexpected, thus potentially reducing the likelihood that unnecessary stress can occur.

Although, yes, stress and unexpected events do occur in life – and are often unavoidable – but with routine these events can become a bit more manageable. As the unexpected happens, the routine can be adjusted to keep moving forward. For those that struggle with stability in life, sometimes routine is the key to easy stress and pressure management.

*Reasoning pulled from the Mayo Clinic’s Edward T Creagan, M.D.’s post “Going the Distance: The Power of Routine.”

-Your Thrive Team