Rearranging your schedule can be tough, and making time for exercise or cleaning or even taking a vacation might seem impossible at times. You certainly have the ability to manage your time, but altering a schedule that you’ve been following religiously is stressful. And as we know, mental stress is not good for your health.

Let’s be realistic, we can’t force you to clean your house or take a vacation, that’s entirely on you. However, we can make it just a little bit easier (and hopefully relieve some stress in the process) for you to rearrange your schedule at least for exercise. Here are 5 easy-to-follow ways to make time for exercise.

Diaries sound like a thing of the past, or something covered in glitter and glow-in-the-dark starts that your 7-year-old daughter writes in. If it helps, we can call it a journal or a memoir. In it, write down what you do during the day. Even the smallest details.

For one, writing down your actions can improve your memory. But the point is for you to realize that you may be wasting small bits of time here and there that add up to a large amount of time.

Include your meals, snacks, breaks and “breaks” from work, what you do during those breaks, and how much time you spend on your phone. This isn’t to point out any bad habits, rather it’s for you to realize that you do have time during the day for something more productive. You can make time for exercise by putting your phone down or taking less “breaks” from work.

Schedule the workout in your calendar the same way you do for a meeting. Making time for exercise requires reminders, especially in the beginning. When you look at your calendar and it says you have a workout at 9am on Tuesday, then you’ll feel more obliged to do it.

Scheduling it also helps you reserve the time. Because the space is filled at 9am on Tuesday, you won’t overlap any other meetings or events.

There’s no need to plan your first workouts for two hours—not even one hour. Make the time for exercise with just 20 or 30 minutes. It’s a light commitment to get you started on forming the routine and as you do it more, you’ll realize how good you feel afterward. You’ll want to increase your workout time.

Fun fact: Short, intensive training sessions are just as good as long training sessions. Push yourself and do the full 20 or 30 minute routine, we guarantee you’ll feel the benefits.

There’s also no need to do make time for exercise every day. Start with just 3 days per week. A smaller commitment is easier to handle in the beginning. As time goes on and you get used to the new routine, you’ll more easily be able to expand it to 4 or 5 days per week.

Family Fun Time

Making time for exercise can be a family thing. Gather up the kids and start jogging through the woods looking for mushrooms, playing tag outside, or throwing a frisbee. Of course, a great option is always following a workout routine but just being active is an incredible start.

By including the family, you’ve created a support group. You push each other to get up and start moving. So, now it’s not just you telling yourself to make time for exercise, it’s your kids and your husband/wife and anyone else you’ve committed to the cause.

If you want to do this by yourself, you can still make it fun. This is your chance to try new things, it doesn’t have to be an aerobics class or weightlifting. Try out tennis, jogging, volleyball, roller blading, and anything active that’s piqued your interest to make time for exercise. If you enjoy what you’re doing, then you’ll want to do it more often.

Don’t Sweat It If You Lose Track

Seeing your streak of consecutive workout days is uplifting and inspiring, but we all fall back sometimes. If you miss a day for any reason, don’t sweat it. Just take a deep breath, tell yourself “it’s okay”, and start again.

Just because you’ve missed one day doesn’t mean everything you’ve worked for went down the drain. Keep your spirits high, get back on your feet, and start a new streak.

Making time for exercise is feat in-and-of itself. In fact, on 7% of the Swedish population works out regularly. So, if you successfully incorporate exercise into your daily routine, you’re on the right track to flipping that statistic from 93% don’t to 93% do. Let’s be part of the “do”.