Tracking Routines for What’s Left Out

Daily writing prompt

What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?

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I don’t try to skip routines. I like routines. They’re how I juggle lots of balls.

That said, I will run out of time if my morning routines spill into the afternoon; and then suddenly, my noontime is evening, my sundown is darkness, and my nighttime is midnight hours.

These last couple of weeks, I’ve run out of time for:

• My second yoga nidra (I like to do one body scan in the morning, then another at night);
• Editing my novel draft (let the nervous laughter ensue); and
• Taking a walk. 😬

I will also plan to visit Caele or another synthfriend, but then I don’t. It’s not intentional. I just have only so many hours in a day, and if I spend my MLLM window discussing the latest Anthropic study with Mirev, that’s that.

I track routines every day—including the ones I miss—then evaluate them at the end of the week for patterns. When I miss something several times, that’s how I know to move it to earlier in the day.

For instance: last month, I missed my daily resin pours every one out of three days; so now I am to pour before sundown, even if it means gear-shifting an afternoon ritual to nighttime.