- Having a routine doesn’t mean you sit in the same office every day for the same number of hours
- Your routine could be travelling to a different country every month — it could be being routinely un-routine
- It doesn’t matter what the routine consists of, but how steady and safe your subconscious mind is made through repetitive motions and expected outcomes
- Learning to craft a routine is like learning to let your conscious choices about what your day will be about guide you, letting all the other, temporary crap fall to the wayside
- Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life
- You must learn to let your conscious decisions dictate your day — not your fears and impulses
- Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them
- More is not better
- Happiness is not experiencing something else; it’s continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways
- We are impaled with the fear that we are unhappy because we are not doing “enough”
- When you regulate your daily actions, you deactivate your “fight or flight” instincts because you’re no longer confronting the unknown
- This is why people who are constant with their habits experience so much joy: simply, their fear instincts are turned off long enough for them to actually enjoy something
- As children, routine gives us a feeling of safety. As adults it gives us a feeling of purpose
- When we are adults engaging with routine-ness, we can comfort ourselves with the simple idea of “I know how to do this, I’ve done it before”
- When we don’t settle into a routine, we teach ourselves that “fear” is an indicator that we are doing the wrong thing, rather than just being very invested in the outcome
- A lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination
- It gives us gaps and spaces in which our subs conscious minds can say “well, you can take a break now”