I Switched To A Morning Routine “Menu”
Plus 4 other concepts I use to guide my habit tracking efforts
Simplify vs. add more
I’ve been tracking my habits the last 4-or-so years.
At one point, I was tracking 20 of ‘m. A bit overkill, if you ask me.
Squeezing 4+ hours of activities into a 1-hour morning routine isn’t all that realistic. So I trimmed it down to the essentials.
Today, I don’t track more than 8 habits over the entire day.
Go for flexibility
I don’t treat myself like a robot that must do a certain habit at the same time every day.
That makes me *not* want to do them.
I don’t thrive under rigidity.
Not every day will be the same.
Life happens. Curveballs happen. Urgent matters that need my attention now happen, causing me to throw all habits straight out of the window.
Just for today.
I’ll try again tomorrow.
Cycle syncing
Recently, I re-read In The Flo by Alissa Vitti.
The book proposes “cycle syncing” as a solution to menstruating women who feel…
