Okay, the chart, itself

You know, your weekly schedule, the one true way to slowly inch from where you are now to where you want to be in your life:

Take a sheet of 8.5x11 paper

Rule it across 25 times, one line for each of the hours in the day. Save a little space at the top.

Make the lines into blocks with vertical lines, building 8 squares for each line.

The 1st line of squares on the left is for the hours. On top of the other 7 squares, the day of the week.

Distressingly simple, isn't it? How could anything this elementary have any effect whatsoever on your complicated, sophisticated and cluttered life?

Come on now, don't be so impatient. Start filling in the blanks. Big block for
sleep. The morning rituals. Drive-time. Work. Lunch. Work. More drivetime.
Dinner. After dinner. Sleep again.

Wow, you don't have much time for yourself--for you, yourself, the person--do you?!

Aren't you supposed to love yourself? Not even a little bit? If that is true in any sense, why do you spend so little time on the things you really believe are important? Who sucked all the poetry out of your life? Had to be you, yourself, the person, didn't it?

Okay, sorry, I got to preaching there. Let's continue. Get your pastel squeekies out and let's color in the squares. Grey for sleep. Yellow for rituals. Orange for
commuting. Red for work. Green for obligations. Save blue for you.

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to gradually steal time from every other area on your chart and slip it into the blue zone, the you zone, that place where you loving you can grow to where you openly and freely love somebody else.

Hint: For many, the easiest place to start is weekends. Good to do. But for real
growth, it's just as vital to analyze what you're doing with M-T-W-Th-F.