The joys of rigid routine

One of the hardest things I've had to learn about organizing my life is that I'm not much good at simply doing things I ought to do when I ought to do them because I ought to do them. I can identify the things I ought to do, and I can do them, but if I have to make the active decision to do them at the time they need to be done, I'm likely to do something else. The secret has always been designing the mental judo such that making the decision is separate from the action itself.

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