Tagged “missed-days”
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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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What to do with a missed day
One missed day never ends a routine. What ends it is the deciding that happens the next morning, which is why the rule has to exist beforehand.
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The days you don't feel like it are the sample
A routine is only tested on the days you'd rather not. Treat the feeling as ordinary weather rather than as information about whether to continue.
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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.
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Being ill, and the difference between a pause and a stop
A week off with a virus ends routines that survived everything else, because nothing marks the point where being ill turns into not doing it.