i work hard at getting routines established in my life. Some are spiritual like reading my Bible every day, and memorizing Bible verses for 30 minutes each day. Others are exercise like weight lifting and riding my stationary bike 30 minutes each. Others are very enjoyable like sitting in my hot tub for 30 minutes before going to bed every night that I am home. Once a routine is firmly entrenched in my life as a habit I free up some inner energy that is used up exercising self control trying to be faithful to basic disciplines. Right now I have about 30 routines established in my life and working on establishing some more.