Tagged “dose”
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Your routine is too long
The routine you design is built for your best day and has to survive your worst. A shorter one you do beats a better one you don't.
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Doing it badly on purpose
A quality standard is a second thing that can fail. Deciding in advance that a sloppy session counts is what keeps the routine reachable on bad days.
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Adding to a routine without breaking it
Growth is how established routines die. Add one thing, when it's boring rather than when it's going well, and keep the floor where it was.
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The danger of a good week
Routines get modified when they're going well and that is when they can least take it. What to do with the urge to improve something that is working.
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Boredom is a design problem
Routines die of tedium more often than difficulty, and the usual fix trades away the familiarity that made it cheap. Change the wrapper instead.
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A deadline shortens a routine's life
A goal with a date attached makes a routine urgent, then oversized, then finished. Aim at the routine existing rather than at an outcome by a deadline.