I'm just wondering what alternative frameworks exist out there other than habits
because what I'm realizing is that I/we (system) have a carrying capacity for Good Habits. there's not only so many times we can do something every single day, but only so many things we can do every single day before we implode. if we try to pick up one too many Good Habits, we just collapse and drop all of them. we can brush our teeth, wear our nightguard, eat on time, etc, etc, but we can't do all of these things every day together forever and quite frankly the thought of doing so makes me in particular want to vomit and die
(like, theoretically, habits are supposed to take less and less effort the longer you do them. that's only true for a temporary period for us. then they become agonizing. some of us have greater tolerance for habits than others, but none of us add up to A Functional Neurotypical(tm))
(idk it's just not great when you periodically sleep 12+ hours a day and still feel tired and ostensibly I have to force myself through 8 hours of work, and you're telling me I have to use the 4- remaining hours for the same. tasks. over and over and over)
and if anything, I think the way habits are presented... actually makes things worse for us? like there's always this feeling that It Should Be Easy, Just Don't Break The Streak, Just Keep Doing It, and then we inevitably feel like shit when it isn't that simple and stop bothering to track anything. or stop bothering with things at all. it should be an accomplishment when we manage to do thing at all, but under Habits(tm) it feels like it doesn't count because we aren't doing it Consistently
like surely someone out there has to have figured out something that doesn't suck
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