“It is almost hard to build a regular routine, so why on earth should we break it? At this point, we might also enquire: why should we build a routine?

Well, the routine is intended as a regular habit of repeating similar actions at a certain time of the day. It strengthens our ability to better perform those actions. To become faster and more precise, nothing can beat repetition. For instance, doing a sport regularly before starting work may develop certain benefits. The best option for ‘routining’ a certain task may be subjective. It depends on our lifestyle, what we are trying to gain from it, and our expectations. To experiment is always welcome, in order to understand what suits us the most. It might be a cooking activity, sport, studying, or working.
Waking up at the same time is, for example, a good habit. The body takes time to adjust, and by repeating the task, the habit becomes easier to carry out, to the point we can perform it almost mechanically, without thinking.

Here comes the routine break! The repetition of a task becomes counterproductive if we stop improving. Once we become machines at repeating the same actions, ideally, we don’t even need to think about it. And it is here that some problems might occur. We may become trapped in a loop where we lose the goal and become solely dependent on the technique. We might forget why we were doing it in the first place.

So retrace your steps back to the original path — it is nice sometimes to have a distortion in your routine that obliges you to pull back, disengaging the autopilot. The manual mode, in turn, forces you to think using your own mind, breaking free from the loop with an enhanced awareness.”