Why are routines so hard to break?

How many times have you made a commitment and then failed to keep it? This could be in your personal life, with the decision to join a gym, or in your professional life, to enroll in a new class and learn a new skill. When you signed up, you were excited, ready to take on a new task. You paid the deposit, signed the paperwork, and maybe the event went to some classes. But at some point along the way, he lost motivation and failed to fulfill this commitment.

Understanding why you can’t keep a commitment requires one to understand the change. A new commitment is a new change in your life and the change interferes with the established routine. In this article, we will discuss why falling into a rut is so easy and convenient for so many people.

If you have a 9 to 5 job, you may have a set daily routine. You wake up every morning at 7:00. You get ready at 7:30 and finish breakfast at 8. You get in your car and have a 45-minute drive to work, where you arrive at 9:00 to start your workday. Ideally, you should leave work at 5:00 a.m. and be home by 6:00 a.m. if there is no traffic. You prepare dinner and at 7:00, you sit down to watch television and eat. When you finish, it is already 8:00 and you start preparing for the next day. It’s easy to follow and you don’t have to think about what to do next.

Everyone has some kind of routine, be it daily, weekly, or monthly. It’s a simplified process and enables efficiency in your daily tasks. Your mind works subconsciously to get through the day and you don’t have to actively think about what to do next.

However, because you’ve gotten so used to it, it makes new commitments difficult to meet. A commitment means breaking out of your routine and finding time to schedule the new activity.

To determine how to incorporate a new activity into your current routine, actively monitor what you are doing. This will show you where and when you have time. While it can be difficult to get started, if you set the same time every day or every week, it will become a habit.