Tagged “cueing”
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The second slot
A routine with one cue gets one chance a day. A named second slot rescues a day the first one was occupied, without becoming 'later'.
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When your day changes shape
New hours, a different commute, a change at home: the routine stops because the event it was attached to no longer happens. Re-cue it that week.
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The cue is the hard part
Most routines don't fail during the routine. They fail before it starts, because nothing in the day reliably tells you it's time.
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The morning is not automatically the answer
First thing is a convention, not a mechanism. The right slot is wherever your day has the most structural slack, which is often not the morning.
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The weekend hole
A routine cued to your working day has no cue on Saturday. Two days off, twice a month, is enough to unpick the whole thing.
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The routine that needs a decision every day
If you choose what to do each session, you pay a deliberation cost daily. Fix the sequence, fix the order, and remove every choice you can from the moment.
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Telling someone else, and what it actually does
Announcing a routine buys nothing. A fixed appointment with another person buys a real trigger. The difference is whether anyone notices your absence.
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The week after you get back
Travel rarely kills a routine. The week after does, because the cue is still where you left it and nothing tells you it has stopped.