Before you can change a habit, you have to notice it. Most of what you do is automatic—efficient, fast, and largely invisible to you.
Start by turning your routines into something you can see. Write down the sequence of your day and label behaviors as helpful, harmful, or neutral. The point isn’t to punish yourself. It’s to surface the triggers and the patterns you’ve been living inside.
Awareness is the first form of control. When you can say, “This is the moment I usually drift,” you create a gap between cue and response. In that gap you can insert a choice: a different action, a different environment, or a deliberate pause. Small changes fail when the old habit stays unnamed. Once you can see the pattern clearly, you can start shaping it instead of repeating it.
