This post is part of our weekly series of peacemaking practices during the Season of Nonviolence.

How do you manage your day? If you have a habit of over-scheduling or leaving “just enough time” to get where you are going, you might find yourself feeling stressed and nervous as you rush through your day, harried and harassed. If there is someone driving slowly or there is more traffic than usual or you come upon a construction project, you might find yourself angry at each delay, and you arrive at your meeting in a state of anxiety and frustration, irritated with the world.

How about choosing to start a habit that allows you to move through life with more calm and with the ability to show up as your better self?

What if you scheduled your life with more spaciousness? What if you gave yourself extra time to get to where you are going or to spend on something or someone important to you?

What if you managed your day to meet your needs? What needs might you meet? How might you feel as you meet your needs?

Some needs that might be met: Connection and Compassion; Empowerment, Self-Mastery, and Agency; Integrity and Kindness because you are living from a more centered self; Consideration and Love as you can be more present with yourself and others.

How might you feel? Happy, relaxed, calm, satisfied, encouraged?

What do you think about this idea and incorporating it into your life more often?