Experimenting with Lifestyle

My Mother-in-Law once said life is all about regrouping. For a productive life in which we constantly thrive for improvement, development, and progression, a fairly regular routine of "regrouping" in necessary; sitting back, evaluating our current schedule or circumstance, and then deciding where to increase, decrease, speed up, slow down, magnify, or most common, simplify. I have been trying to do this a little at a time.
I wanted to read for pleasure more - now I'm addicted to audio books! I also visit the library at least every two weeks.
I'm experimenting with solving the dirty dish problem; we don't have a dishwasher in our little apartment, so dishes tend to get a bit out of hand. I'm trying something I learned from Little House on the Prairie, each person gets one cup, one bowl, one small plate, one large plate, one fork, one knife, and one spoon, so you just wash it when you're done, or at least wash it before you want it again instead of getting a clean one every time while the dirty ones just pile up. We'll see how long this lasts!
We wanted to save money by limiting how much we drive our car - I take the bus to work 4 of the 5 working days, and Dave commutes to school via bike.
After the floods we decided to improve food storage - we put up new shelves for just that purpose, and now I walk past our second bedroom with a little more security and gratification.
We decided we needed more regular exercise - Dave rides to and from school everyday along with joy rides, and he, acting as my personal trainer - has me run 30 minutes on the treadmill as soon as I get home from work (I'm gradually working up to 1 hour of running, but that will take more regrouping later.) Oh, and I get a treat for every 2-weeks consecutively I run - I get Sundays off and one other weekday of my choice.
Couple scripture study needed to be improved, so Dave wakes up with me and we read together while breakfasting (once school starts up again it will be me waking up extra early with him.) I also wanted more time for personal scripture study, so the Book of Mormon is my current audio book of choice while riding the bus to and from work (I read along with a book in my lap as well.)
I also wanted to incorporate healthier foods into our diets (sushi sounds perfect, unfortunately Dave detests seafood) and so I've been trying a lot of Asian dishes. Ironically, the ones I make aren't much healthier than my normal menu, in fact when you consider the high fat content of delectable creamed coconut milk, some of them are worse, but at least I'm experimenting and becoming acquainted with the local Asian Market; salted jellyfish anyone?
Some of the next things I want to work on and evaluate how they go are: speaking less negatively in our home. Dave and I don't speak negatively to each other, but we could work on being more positive about others. Returning to a previous "regrouping" effort of stopping whatever we are doing by 8:30, putting the house to bed (tidying up) and getting ready for bed by 9pm, and then lights out by 9:30. Then waking up at 5:30am so we can read scriptures together for at least 1/2 hour. Yeah, this schedule was great for the 2 months it lasted! Time to try it again. I also want to spend more time perusing the newspaper and be up-to-date on the unfortunately-never-uplifting-current news.
After a while I'm sure I'll start noticing how unorganized our life has drifted again, and we'll have to stop, evaluate, regroup, and try again. What about you guys?