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Make practice repeatable before you make it ambitious

A short planning method for choosing a realistic weekly rhythm.

Most plans fail on the third week, not the first. The fix is to plan a rhythm small enough to survive a bad week, and only then make it bigger.

Pick the smallest useful session

Ten minutes of speaking aloud, one worked maths problem, one paragraph rewritten. If it takes longer than a coffee, it will be the first thing dropped.

Tie it to something you already do

Practice after the evening meal, on the tram, before opening email. A fixed trigger does more than a reminder on your phone.

Review once a week

On the same day each week, look back at what you did. Add a little only when the rhythm has held for two weeks in a row.

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