Every routine I built collapsed by week five. What held was not a routine, it was one thing worth getting up for. Asking around, the pattern is sharp. Survives Coffee made as a small ritual. The ritual is the point;…
Two hundred days of ticking boxes. The app is beautiful, the streak is unbroken, and I am fairly sure I am no different than when I started. What I have noticed is that I optimise for the tick. On a bad day I will do…
The routine is fifteen minutes of stretching and ten minutes of writing before work. After a good night it happens easily. After a bad one, which is three or four times a week, I skip both entirely and feel behind all…
Two weeks into running three times a week and it currently feels effortless, so I am extremely tempted to add the gym, journalling and an earlier bedtime this week. My history is that I add several, keep them for a…
Put the charger in the hallway three weeks ago and evening phone time genuinely dropped from about two hours to twenty minutes. But now I watch three or four episodes of whatever's on instead and go to bed at the same…
Two cans plus two coffees a day for about three years. Saturdays I get a headache by mid morning, which I have finally connected to not having the first can. Sleep is poor and I want the afternoon habit gone, but I…
Same pattern four times this year with running. I get to day nine or eleven, something disrupts it, a cold or a work trip, I miss two days, and then it's just over. Not a slow fade, a cliff. I don't miss it and I don't…
Shift work, so there is no fixed morning and no reliable evening either. I want three things to stick: ten minutes of stretching, twenty minutes of language practice, and not taking my phone to bed. I have tried three…
Commute is about two hours a day and I'm out of the house 7:30 to 18:30. The gym is a twelve minute walk and opens at six, so a morning session means a 5:20 alarm. The home option is bodyweight plus two kettlebells,…
Five weeks of flossing every night and it still feels like a decision I have to actively make, sometimes twice, standing in the bathroom. I keep reading 21 days and 66 days and getting different numbers everywhere. Is…