Write down what went wrong for a month. By week three, you’ll see it’s usually the same thing.

Problems feel random when you only meet them one at a time. Written down in a row they stop looking like bad luck and start looking like a pattern, and the pattern is usually short. Late because of the same step, wrecked by the same hour, snapping at the same person. You cannot see the repeat while it is spread across a month of memory.

Keep one line a day for a few weeks. Just what went wrong, no analysis. Read the list at the end and fix whatever shows up most, since one fix quietly covers a dozen bad days.