Common pitfalls
These are the moments when the system most often stops working. You are not alone in any of them.
“I do not start the routine”
This is the most common difficulty, and it is almost never laziness.
Usually the routine is too long, the first step is too large, or there is no real trigger in the day. Routines are easier to start when they follow something that already happens:
- “After waking up” as the trigger for your morning routine
- “After lunch” for a kitchen reset
- “When I walk through the front door” for a coming-home routine
If that does not work, shorten the routine to three steps or move it to another time.
“I build everything at once, then it collapses”
This is a familiar pattern. An ADHD mind can love a new system and sometimes builds it too large. The excitement lasts for three days, and then nothing happens.
What tends to help is adding no more than one new routine per week. Use it for two weeks before adding another. Small systems are often stable; large ones can be fragile.
“I completely forget the routine”
Add a daily reminder as an appointment in the calendar. Or open the app’s day view in the morning, where your active routines are visible. Routines work best when they follow something that happens anyway, because then you need fewer extra reminders.
“The app feels complicated”
The app has many features. You do not have to use all of them.
This is enough to begin: create one routine, add three steps and use it once. Goals and flows are optional and can wait.
“I had a few difficult days, and now the whole system feels pointless”
Difficult days do not mean that the system has failed. They mean that you had difficult days.
Begin again tomorrow without punishment and without reviewing everything you missed. Make the routine even smaller if needed. The system belongs to you, not the other way around. You may change it, pause it or restart it at any time.
“I do not know what to do next”
Read the Quick start again, or copy one of the examples and begin exactly there.
