While I set a superb evening ritual earlier this year, the changes in the local lockdown hours, and consequently working hours, had me mess it up and it is an area I want to improve in quarter 2 of the year. For example, I used to have lunch at work, now with lunch break cancellation at work to leave earlier, I started having lunch in the evenings so I come home feeling too hungry to take a walk.
Moreover, I have written the ritual steps here in my blog and in my planner, but they were nowhere to be seen at the house. I did not make the steps visible enough, I did not repeat them enough, so I simply forgot them.
Starting this month:
- I will write the evening ritual steps on several post-it notes and place them in different rooms around the house like the kitchen, bedroom and learning room (laundry room/home office/study room). This will help me know what I need to do next.
- I will also fine tune my habits according to the updated, albeit temporary, working hours. For instance I started taking oatmeal with me again to work to avoid the evening hunger that tempts me to skip walking.
- I already track some habits of my evening routine daily, like story time with kids, but maybe I need to dedicate one sheet of my habit tracker to the evening routine steps in order to make crossing off each item rewarding. I will try it and report back.