Tides are predictable years in advance. Some patterns in your life are too, if you write them down.

Your own cycles are far more regular than they feel from inside. Which weeks you crash, what you do after a fight, the kind of person you keep getting pulled toward: all of it repeats, and it only looks like chaos because nobody keeps the record. Written down, patterns turn into forecasts, and forecasts let you prepare instead of being surprised again.

Keep one line a day for a month: mood, sleep, what happened. Read it back rather than trusting memory, which edits. Then plan the next hard month around what you can now see coming.