Life happens. Sometimes we’re on top of the world, other times the world is on top of us. Around May 2018, the world was on top of me. I felt an instinctual pull to rebuild some routine and structure into my day. Due to my undiagnosed condition to nounify everything, I began to refer to these practices as Resiliency Routines. Others who have read Duhigg might refer to them as “Keystone Habits”.1 Normal people might just say “things I do in the morning and at night.”
For me, in the briefest rendition, it just meant waking up earlier than normal, journaling, and working out. I had one unfair super tool in my arsenal: access to a sauna. So every morning resulted in a sauna-workout.
In the sauna one morning I recognized that I was: unhappy, unbalanced, and unproductive. My morning trifecta—wake early, journal, and workout—helped remove the “un” from those prefixes.
- Wake early
- Journal
- Workout
This is a simple reminder that the solution to not feeling so overwhelmed starts with some simple actions.
Footnotes
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What’s my deal with nounifying important habits? I tire myself… Words I’ve used to describe important habits ↩