TIME MANAGEMENT
Why it’s important to keep up a daily routine:
Having a daily routine comes along with many benefits. Some of these benefits are: better time management, self-discipline, focus, healthy balance, understanding yourself better. Here is why these benefits are vital.
Better Time Management:
Having daily habits helps to organise your time during the day because you’re following a specific pattern of activities. It’s like having a to-do list of which you’re crossing off the items, one by one. Being able to appropriately allocate time to them is very important. It’s a good idea to use a time plan to know exactly how much time you spend on each activity. This will help you have a deep insight into your daily routine to better understand where your times goes. When you have a specific plan for the day, week or even month, it’s easier to achieve your goals and keep order in life.
Self-Discipline:
Since there are certain things you need to do during your daily routine, there is no room for affairs from outside of your daily schedule. Once you start your day with at least one habit and continue doing it throughout the week, the rest will come naturally. You will easily be able to keep the discipline, get rid of the bad habits, and get organised. This applies to other areas of life. For example, work, training and relationships.
Focus:
Daily routine easily eliminate's distractions because you are focused only on those things that need to be done. The more you keep to your daily routine, the more automatic it becomes for you to perform all the activities throughout the day. As a result, your work is smooth, efficient, and you learn to focus only on these actions that are related to your daily schedule.
Healthy Balance:
Since keeping a daily routine helps to stay organised and focused, it’s also a means for achieving the work-life balance. Thanks to regular habits and self-discipline, you can clearly see when things get out of your hand. That allows you to reorganise your schedule and adjust to possible changes. As a result, you’re avoiding unnecessary stress and can quickly address any problems.
Understanding Yourself Better:
Sometimes forming your daily routine may take time. But with time, you can develop your own habits, eliminate these bad ones, and see what works best for you by the trial and error method. In other words, you can personalise your daily routine according to your character, structure of work or other factors that affect your life at the particular moment. It’s a fantastic way to learn new things about yourself, what triggers the positive parts of your personality and what influences them negatively. That way you can work on your character.
Sleep:
A common question is how many hours of sleep is sufficient. The quality of your sleep directly affects your mental and physical health and the quality of life, including your productivity, emotional balance, brain functionality, immune system, creativity, vitality, and even your weight. Minimal sleep loss can take a substantial toll on your mood, physical energy, mental sharpness, and ability to handle stress.
Therefore, researchers and studies have shown that 8-9 hours of sleep is required per day to refill your ‘tank’ and supply you will enough energy for the day. While sleep requirements vary slightly from person to person. This may be due to the type of activities that the individual may endure during the day.
School/Study:
School is important because it teaches you the basics you need to know for the future. It provides a foundation for everyday skills. “Everyone deserves a good start in life and getting a good education sets you on the right road. Getting the right education means the right job or career. Your day-to-day school life provides stability and friendship and should be a happy experience”. School is important; no matter what you want to be. Believe it or not; pretty much all schools have something to do with the profession you want to be.
Training/Workout:
Us being goalkeepers definitely requires training and general workouts to keep up our skills and improve them. Being a goalkeeper is the most difficult and fundamental position on a football pitch. With these requirements and responsibilities means you have to train and improve or maintain skill level. A sufficient amount of training for an athlete to see improvement is around 3 times a week.
Active Recovery:
Recovery is a period following a competition or physical activity where the body temperature, circulation and respiratory rates return to the athletes pre-exercise state. Recovery should be active. This includes light jog, swimming or a bike ride. An active recovery allow lactic acid to disperse that has built up during exercise. Exercise recovery as opposed to rest recovery results in a more effective dispersal of lactate. Lactic acid is body acid that is produced when your muscles have been put to work. Getting rid of lactic acid allows nutrients to create energy. relieve sore muscles and prevent muscle cramps.
Stretching:
Muscles need to be stretched beyond the range required of them in the sport. Stretching program needs to be specific to the sport. The muscle groups that have greatest demands on them during the physical activity require specific attention when stretching. Stretching to post training reduces the chances of injuries and cramps. Stretching also helps disperse the lactic acid that builds up during physical activity. Stretching post sport should be static. This means a muscle or group of muscles gradually stretched beyond their normal range and the stretch held about 30 seconds.
Free Time:
Free time is important to our health in all three aspects of it: social, mental, and physical. In the social department, it is important because it offers you time to spend with friends and family. In this way, you gain opportunities to grow closer to the people that are important in your life. Free time is important mentally because it offers the mind a chance to relax and refresh itself after working for a longer period of time. The same goes for the body and thus it belongs into the physical benefits of free time.