Let some home routines be pleasant enough that keeping them feels like returning rather than obeying.

Routines built entirely on discipline burn through willpower and eventually lose. The ones that last have something in them you would choose anyway: the good coffee with the morning admin, the radio while the dishes get done, the chair by the window for the evening reading. Pleasure is not a reward bolted onto the habit; it is what makes the habit findable on a tired day.

Take the routine you keep abandoning and attach one genuinely enjoyable thing to it this week. Do not make the enjoyable part conditional on doing the rest perfectly.