A system that needs constant enthusiasm may be borrowing reliability from your best mood.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Any arrangement that works only when you feel like it is not really an arrangement. It performs beautifully in the first fortnight, while motivation is doing the load-bearing, then collapses the week you are ill, busy, or flat. The collapse gets read as a personal failing rather than as a design that assumed conditions nobody can guarantee. Good systems are built for your average day, not your best one.

Look at whatever you have set up recently and ask what happens to it on a bad Tuesday. Simplify it until the tired version of you could still run it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Do your systems only work on your good days?

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