Nick Bare

And you end up being on autopilot.

And I found myself here before.

And this is why I share it.

And I think it's really important.

You know, I'm a fan of planning.

and being proactive and prepared.

And I'm a big fan of having rituals and habits.

I am.

I love my routines.

But a hard lesson I've learned over the last couple of years is that if you put your routines in front of your responsibilities, you're going to dishonor your responsibilities and your priorities and the people in your life.

So it has to be responsibilities over routines.

Because if you're like me, routines feel really good.

Routines are comfortable and they're familiar and it allows us to get a lot done in a little amount of time.

Like for me, my morning routine, waking up at 4.30 and

red lighting for 15 minutes and going for a run and coming back and making breakfast and getting my Bible reading done and catching up on emails and work before the kids and the family wakes up, that feels really good to me.

And sometimes I become so rigid and stuck to those routines that breaking those routines is actually harder for me than sticking to them.

It's not hard for me to stick to those routines.

The routine is comfort.

It is familiar.

It is predictable.