u/fra_cis

TODAY IS THE WORST🙃

Ever experienced having your car freshly washed and gone for a walmart run or a quick dine in and coming back having lots of pingeon dump all over it especially on the windshield??? Then they’re just standing on a wire line or a tree staring at you and feel like they are laughing at you. Like give me a break you birdies!

20 yrs old, upcoming 3rd year Nursing Student. It’s currently our summer class and our finals grade just got released and I’ve got subjects with mark of 3 (our passing for the program is 2.75). Yes I know that the program is hard, but I do blame for myself of what happened. I’ve done everything I need to do to point where sleepless nights lasted for months. Burned out to the max ending up having eyebags. Hospitalized twice for poor nutrition. I’ve come to point asking myself “is this program really for me?” “do I see myself in this program” “is this what I really wanna become?”, and yes being a Nurse is really my passion but I can’t understand why things aren’t working out for me. I don’t know how to tell my parents about this since they fund most of my finance ( I work part-time as well for my personal finance and school materials). I feel like I failed myself and family😔

20 yrs old, upcoming 3rd year Nursing Student. It’s currently our summer class and our finals grade just got released and I’ve got subjects with mark of 3 (our passing for the program is 2.75). Yes I know that the program is hard, but I do blame for myself of what happened. I’ve done everything I need to do to point where sleepless nights lasted for months. Burned out to the max ending up having eyebags. Hospitalized twice for poor nutrition. I’ve come to point asking myself “is this program really for me?” “do I see myself in this program” “is this what I really wanna become?”, and yes being a Nurse is really my passion but I can’t understand why things aren’t working out for me. I don’t know how to tell my parents about this since they fund most of my finance ( I work part-time as well for my personal finance and school materials). I feel like I failed myself and family😔

Genuinely embarrassed to admit this but I’m 20 and second year of college nearly wrecked me. I was sleeping at 3 or 4am every night, waking up past 1pm, missing assignments I didn’t even realize were due, and just feeling completely checked out from everything. No motivation, no energy, no real reason to fix it either. I just kept telling myself I’d reset “next week.” It took hitting a real low point before I actually started taking the small things seriously. Slowly worked on just being more intentional with my day, nothing crazy, just tiny shifts that added up over time. Still not perfect but I’m no longer the guy missing class because he can’t wake up before noon. If anyone’s been in that same hole, trust me it’s more fixable than it feels; happy to share what helped me get there.

Didn’t expect such a small change in routine to affect everything else my focus, my mood, even how I felt about school again. It kind of snowballed in the best way.

I’ve tried it all. Time blocking, the Ivy Lee method, habit stacking, morning pages. Most of it fell apart by week two.
Here’s what I found actually works for building a daily routine that lasts:

1. Track fewer things, not more
   Most habit trackers have you logging 10+ things. That’s exhausting. I cut mine down to 3 non-negotiables and everything got easier.

2. Design your day around energy, not time
   Stop putting hard tasks at 9am just because that’s when work starts. Figure out when you’re actually sharp and protect that window.

3. Use a weekly reset, not just a daily one
   Every Sunday, spend 10 minutes reviewing what worked and what didn’t. Without this step, you repeat the same bad weeks forever.

4. Anchor new habits to ones you already have
   Want to journal? Do it right after your morning coffee not as a separate event. Piggybacking habits is the fastest way to make them automatic.

I turned all of this into a simple set of templates and trackers that I use daily. Happy to share the framework if anyone wants it, just drop a comment.

What’s your current daily routine system? Would love to hear what’s working for others.