[whelton]

Understanding motivation is ephemeral, while discipline is not and a sense of momentum is important, what keeps me going is having an “emergency mode” of my habits for my “off days”.

This varies by habit, but includes tracking at least one minute of work on a project per day, or just going for a walk if don’t have the energy to workout.

I think one has to manage expectations and factor ‘off days’ and ‘rest days’ into their model of productivity and routine.

I treat myself like a server with a bad uptime SLA. I aim for >= 90% adherence to habits, which over a long time horizon compounded is pretty meaningful.

I wrote a guide around this for a product I’m building if of interest: https://conjure.so/guides/habit-completion-types