A strategy you can explain in one breath is one you’ll actually follow under pressure.

Complicated plans collapse at exactly the moment you need them, because pressure shrinks how much you can hold in your head. Anything you cannot say in one sentence is really several plans standing in a trench coat. Simple is not the same as easy; simple is what survives a bad morning.

Take whatever you are trying to do this month and say it out loud in a single line. Homework first, phone after. Two practices a week, no matter what. If it takes a paragraph, you have not decided yet, and deciding is the missing part.