Routines
A morning that works is usually one with fewer decisions in it
The value of a morning routine is not what is in it. It is that none of it has to be decided while half awake.
Routines
Habits that survive a bad week, not just a good one.
21 articles · updated August 11, 2026 · page 1 of 2
Routines
Habits stick when they are attached to something that already happens
Motivation is a poor scaffold. Attaching a new habit to an existing routine does most of the work for you.
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The evening routine that survives a bad day
Routines built for good days collapse exactly when they would help most. The fix is to design for the worst version.
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Weekly planning that takes fifteen minutes and prevents most of the mess
Most of the friction in an ordinary week comes from decisions that could have been made once, in advance.
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Habit stacking runs out, and what to do when it does
Attaching a new habit to an existing one works until the anchors are used up or the routine changes.
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Doing things badly on purpose
The standard that stops something happening is usually the standard you set, not the one anyone requires.
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Sunday evening dread, and what it is actually telling you
Anticipatory anxiety about the week is common and specific, and it usually points at something identifiable.
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Meal timing and the afternoon collapse
The post-lunch dip is partly circadian and partly what you ate, and both parts are adjustable.
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Phones, notifications and the attention you keep spending
The cost is not the minutes on the device but the interruptions, and those are configurable.
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The two-minute rule, and where it stops working
Doing anything that takes under two minutes immediately clears an astonishing amount, until it becomes a way of avoiding the large…
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Decision fatigue, and reducing the number of decisions rather than improving them
The quality of decisions degrades across a day of making them, and the fix is subtraction.
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Streaks are motivating until the day you break one
Unbroken chains are a powerful mechanism with a specific failure mode, and there is a version that survives it.