Free daily routine template you can actually stick to
A daily routine works best as a few anchors, not an hour by hour script. Use three or four short anchors for morning, midday and evening, and keep a smaller version for days when energy is low.
Anchors, not a script
Routines fail when they try to plan every minute. Anchors are short, repeatable moments that hold the day together, with free space in between.
The template
Morning anchor (15 to 20 minutes)
- Water and medication or vitamins, if you take them
- Get dressed
- Look at today's plan and pick the first step
Midday anchor (10 minutes)
- Eat something real
- Move for five minutes
- Check what is left and move anything that will not happen
Afternoon anchor (5 minutes)
- Refill water
- Pick one task to finish before evening
Evening anchor (20 minutes)
- Reset one surface
- Put out tomorrow's clothes and bag
- Charge your phone outside the bedroom
- Write one thing that went well
The low energy version
- Drink water
- Eat something
- Do one small task
- Go to bed at a reasonable time
That counts. A routine you keep on hard days is worth more than a perfect one you drop.
Use it in Taskling
Taskling includes built in morning, evening and wind down routines. Adjust them to match this template and set them to repeat, so they appear every day with a progress bar.