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I keep restarting

New plan every Monday. Hero week, ghost week. You are great at beginnings.

Diagnosis

You are addicted to the feeling of a clean slate because the middle requires a smaller ego. Restarting is often pride: the old plan wasn't 'optimized' enough. The plan was fine. You left.

Protocol

  1. 1Ban new systems for 21 days. Run the last plan you already understood.
  2. 2Shrink the daily block to a size you can hit on your worst Wednesday.
  3. 3Install a restart protocol: miss one day, you are back the same day, not next Monday.

The standard: Same plan. Smaller floor. Same-day return after a miss.

A sluggard's appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Proverbs 13:4