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How To Return To A Good Routine Lost

6 steps to getting back on track

Mathias Barra
4 min readOct 30, 2019
Photo by Seb Mooze on Unsplash

Sometimes life happens and you lose a well-organized routine.

Maybe you went on a business trip or a long vacation. Maybe you moved in with someone and your daily rhythm crumbled. Maybe you let yourself go and didn’t notice until now.

Morning routines are usually the fastest to drop since just a few days of lack of sleep and regular work hours can completely erase the precious hours you were using after waking up.

It can be frustrating to remember how efficient you were and how much less you are now, can’t it?

After almost 2 months in France working during the night, I came back to Japan looking forward to getting back to my routine. But almost 2 weeks have passed and I find it hard to do so.

So let’s take into consideration actual steps to getting back on track.

Take a good look back

Nobody willingly decides to give up a positive routine. So something must have happened for you to lose it.

I had to go back to France and change my working hours which is what killed my routine. But what if the reason was different?

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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