Checklist For a Simple Life of Excellence

For much of my life, I lived by checklists. Now I’m in a world without checklists, so here’s my attempt to break it down to the essentials of what I need to do every day. 

• Get out of bed (after having suffered major depression, this is not a given)
• Make bed (proven to increase your sense of accomplishment and self-confidence)
• Take medication
• Coffee
• Read Bible (Begin with a spiritual openness to finding out what the creator has to say to me today)
• Write down one thing I’m grateful for today (grateful people are happy people)
• Exercise
• Shower (it always makes me feel better)
• Eat breakfast
• Brush teeth (“first act of kindness of the day”)
• Drink water
• Make lunch
• Decide what to listen to on the way to work that will encourage me today
• Drive to Work
• Drink water
• Eat lunch
• Take a short exercise break every hour
• Engage in a meaningful conversation with one coworker today
• Leave work on time
• Prepare my mind and heart for re-entry into family life
• Kiss my wife hello
• Greet each of my kiddos with joy and a smile
• Help prepare for dinner
• Engage in meaningful conversation at the dinner table
• Help clean up dinner
• Check on status of each kiddo
• Read
• Write
• Brush teeth
• Floss
• Medication
• Crash

What things would you add or take out of your meaningful life routine?