Top tips and quick fixes
Some possibly provocative alternatives to what may be your defaults.
How to easily sidestep the standard traps
Journaling prompts
- Yesterday: How was yesterday, and how has today been so far?
- The origins of my routines: How did your current routines come about? What are some of the main influences that have shaped them in the past? (You might consider other people, your environment, your work/study priorities, etc.) Have the ways they mould your routine changed over the years? Are there any interesting absences of influence?
Quick-win challenge
Ritualizing the beginning
Choose something in the “make this feel new” category (point 2 in the audio/transcript): some little symbolic marker—maybe in the form of a mini treat—to set this phase in your life off from the previous one.
Tell your journal what you’re doing and why.
And for a bonus quick win this time, since there aren’t any other activities for this lesson: If any of the top tips appeal or intrigue (or appall!), choose one of them to try out tomorrow. Note down in your journal what you expect (including: This will be awful!), and then what you actually found.