Your guide to making a perfect daily routine

Our daily lives are a collage of different activities. Having a good, healthy daily routine is of paramount importance, but sometimes, doing the simplest of things is tough.

Here's an impasse we, the youth, now face – just how do you make your routine perfect?

A thorn while making routines is the pressures of our daily lives. A big chunk of our 24 hours is devoted to being productive. This ends up dictating us so much, that our sleep and recreation is often compromised to make room for the more "important" tasks.

However, in order to keep ourselves resourceful and proficient, our mind needs time to do the 3Rs — refresh, regroup, and recharge. This allows our brain to function properly and coaxes our creative instincts to their optimum level.

A perfect routine should have at least seven hours dedicated to mental rest of some form. Going to bed early should be a staple. Your efforts will be rendered useless if you stay awake all night and sleep through the day. Pulling all-nighters regularly has severe repercussions, as it might cause significant damage to the brain in the long run.

A common mistake is to not allocate a good amount of time for recreation and hobbies, as most people still believe that all waking hours should be made to use productively. This conception is flawed to the core. Not only will this have negative ramifications in our personality and psychology in the long-run, but will also cause us to have trouble socialising.

Balancing our downtime with work should be the rule of thumb to make the most of our active hours. Even after working all day, we should be able to find a tiny bit of time where we have nothing to do.

Even our mind needs relief from stress. Doing things we enjoy gives us new avenues to explore and nurture our artistic sides. The treasure of creative skills is precious in this competitive world. Such is our obsession with success, that some might feel paranoid during their free times of their "perfect" routines. I also faced this while coming up with my own routine, but believe me, a perfect routine doesn't have 24/7 work written on it.

Balance is the keyword behind anything sustained, resourceful, and perfect. Our daily routines aren't an exemption from this word of wisdom. Even our human endurance has its ceiling.

To make our factory of creativity useful in this ruthless market, daily routines with the perfect blend of work, recreation and rest is the ultimate way to go.

Inqiad Bin Ali has 'got a pain in his heart and a love in his soul' to put it in an artistic way. He is found deep in thoughts at inqiadali007@gmail.com