Are you a creature of habit?

kerryked

Do you stick to the same routine every day? Are there certain things you do at a certain time, every time?

Or are you the kind of person who lives your life on a 'take it as it comes' basis?

Patrick_Swayze

I'm a creature of habit but one guy i work with takes the biscuit

He gets a chicken fillet roll, can of coke and a bag of popcorn every lunchtime at exactly 1:20. Literally every day for the last 8 years...

kerryked

Patrick_Swayze wrote: »

I'm a creature of habit but one guy i work with takes the biscuit

He gets a chicken fillet roll, can of coke and a bag of popcorn every lunchtime at exactly 1:20. Literally every day for the last 8 years...

Chuckling at that, I often go through periods of taking my lunch at 1:27 and having the same thing. Haven't been doing it for 8 years though!

Walter H Price

I have pretty bad (or good depending how u view it ) OCD so yeh my routine and having things a certain way is super important , wt a bit of stick off friends n family for it but its all just good banter :P

Deedeemazzy

I smoke.

I get into weird routines with food.. like for a few months every day I was mostly eating rice, even for breakfast, microwave pouches of rice.. My current routine or food habit is eating raw veg and fruit pretty much exclusively.. :pac:
Maybe that is more like a weird eating disorder than a habit though :pac:

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Yes. Especially with food.
I'll order the exact same thing all the time. from memory I think I've only ever ordered two things for main course from chinese. When I ate chicken, if I was out for a meal id order soup as starter and chicken for main. That would never change.

I get very fixated on routine. Have to get off at the same bus stop even if some mornings I end up walking to the next one anyway. I try sit in the same seat. But I don't get upset if I can't do it or the options not there. But if it is there I'll take it

failinis

Often get into routines with food (like suddenly going off a food for years, then suddenly eating it a lot till next time I "go off" it again).
I like to have my cup of tea in the morning and 10minutes to just mentally prepare for the day (normally during the cup of tea).
Like to walk certain routes to places, so I have a few options to switch it up, but they can not be mixed together.
Sundays I go to same bakery and order the same bun to have with tea at the same time each week.

But if I can't do any of these its not so much an issue, so not a severe thing.

kerryked

Seems to be a lot of people who have routines which see them doing the same thing at the same time each day/week etc.

I am a creature of habit myself sometimes, then other times I will totally change things up but I guess changing things every so often is part of a larger cycle of having a habit too..

Ragnar Lothbrok

Smoke a cigarette very last thing at night, and very first thing in a morning. Not sure if this is habit or addiction though.

Always have to listen to the soccer results on Sky Sports on a Saturday evening and get very upset if I miss them!

Apart from that, any routines I have are governed by work. I'd say I'm not a creature of habit at all, although like most of us I suspect, I tend to feel a little uncomfortable when faced with changes that are outside of my control.

Riddle101

I'm a creature of habit. My schedule is very predicable and I rarely change it.

Shint0

I have a habit of being non-habitual.

kerryked

Shint0 wrote: »

I have a habit of being non-habitual.

Good answer.

So does that make you a creature of habit or a free spirit? :pac:

10:30am dump. If I am somewhere without a toilet, I get turtle head from muscle memory alone

Shint0

kerryked wrote: »

Good answer.

So does that make you a creature of habit or a free spirit? :pac:

Definitely the latter along with a non-neurotypical brain set to the default position for a hatred of routine.

Plus I am often to be found outside the country regularly.

ScumLord

All people are creatures of habit. Even things you think you're doing logically are just your brain calling up previous experience to give a best guess answer.

DoozerT6

Yeah, I would follow the same daily routine most of the time, almost down to the minute haha!, but it wouldn't upset me unduly if this was thrown a bit out of whack for some reason. I do get stressed if I think I'm going to be late for something though, if I've followed my usual routine and been delayed.

kowloon

Find it very difficult to keep to any kind of routine. I once met someone who ate the same dinner every day for years so their insulin usage was predictable. That would drive me insane.

Peregrine

I usually make it up as I go along but my morning routine is always the same regardless of how early or late I get up.

I crawl out of bed, put the kettle on and make coffee first thing in the morning. Then I leave it to go pee, brush my teeth and wash my face — in that order. I come back and pour milk into my coffee, take out my box of biscuits and have the coffee with biscuits.

Not exactly OCD but it's my only routine.

Story Bud?

Not at all.

There's no real routine in my life. Aside from things that "have" to be done at a certain time, like being in work etc.

Sometimes I wish there was, but I'm not really wired that way.

I have routines more than habits. Routines are necessary for humans to be organised and in control of their time. If I had no morning routine I wouldn't be in work on time, or get any exercise done, and I'd work less efficiently.

I have a habit of making tea every couple of hours, it started off as a study break and now it's ingrained into my day wherever possible, and it's a nice break to wander off and make tea before getting back to work, like a reset. I call my grandmother every night, I guess that's a habit too.

kfallon

Peregrine wrote: »

I usually make it up as I go along but my morning routine is always the same regardless of how early or late I get up.

I crawl out of bed, put the kettle on and make coffee first thing in the morning. Then I leave it to go pee, brush my teeth and wash my face — in that order. I come back and pour milk into my coffee, take out my box of biscuits and have the coffee with biscuits.

Not exactly OCD but it's my only routine.

Why would you brush your teeth before you have your coffee?

mad muffin

Very much so. My wife says I'm institutionalised.

Story Bud?

Candie wrote: »

I have routines more than habits. Routines are necessary for humans to be organised and in control of their time. If I had no morning routine I wouldn't be in work on time, or get any exercise done, and I'd work less efficiently.

See I'm never late for work. And there's things that have to be done before I leave the house. Like I have to get out of bed and I have to get dressed and obviously that has to go in that order, but I don't do the same things in the same order each morning. I might go for a run and come home and get showered. Or I might go to work and run near there and then wash in work. I might have tea and then have a shower. I might drink my tea while still in my towel or I might get fully dressed shoes and all today but tomorrow put my dress on but not put my suit jacket on til I've had tea. Or my shoes might not go on til I'm walking out the door. I might have breakfast at home or I might wait and have elevenses just.

I should do things in order. It would be easier, definitely, but I rarely do.

Edit: actually one thing I do is get straight out of work clothes as soon as I come in the door in the evening. The time I get in though, varies wildly.

I tend to do things in the same order, if I'm having a certain 'kind' of day. On running days I do things a bit differently than I do on swimming days, but I do all running days the same and all swimming days the same. On the few days I'd do neither I'd still have a bit of a routine getting ready and out. Once I'm organised and in a smooth routine in the morning, I'm set up for the day.

Buford T. Justice XIX

kowloon wrote: »

Find it very difficult to keep to any kind of routine. I once met someone who ate the same dinner every day for years so their insulin usage was predictable. That would drive me insane.

No, that's sensible depending on type of insulin. I was kind of that way when first diagnosed and put on the wrong insulin regime. It helped greatly to have regular types of food and meal times and snack types.

Much better now with an insulin pump:)

I have a very set routine in the morning for breakfast and medicines, it helps as I don't really wake up until a half hour after I get up:pac:

Spanish Eyes

I took a very early retirement a couple of years ago now.

What is routine again? lol.

kerryked

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I took a very early retirement a couple of years ago now.

What is routine again? lol.

So you have loads of time on your hands to do anything, or nothing, or whatever life throws at you, very jealous :cool:

Out of interest, did you find it hard not having a kind of work routine any more?

Mister Vain

I take a vitamin every morning at 7am after scratching my arse.

At exactly 8:30 in the evening I have noodles and tuna.

Before going to bed I have some casein protein before scratching my arse.

kowloon

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

No, that's sensible depending on type of insulin. I was kind of that way when first diagnosed and put on the wrong insulin regime. It helped greatly to have regular types of food and meal times and snack types.

Much better now with an insulin pump:)

I have a very set routine in the morning for breakfast and medicines, it helps as I don't really wake up until a half hour after I get up:pac:

Seems really boring to me, I'd rather eat a wide variety of things. I don't have a pump.

FizzleSticks

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Surreptitious

I'm an habitual creature, nocturnal and prowling.

Teyla Emmagan

I love a bit of routine.

kerryked

Jeez, broke out of my usual routine today. Took my lunch 45 minutes early, imagine that, 45 minutes!


Edit: And I've never felt so alive! :pac: :pac:

kerryked

kerryked wrote: »

Jeez, broke out of my usual routine today. Took my lunch 45 minutes early, imagine that, 45 minutes!


Edit: And I've never felt so alive! :pac: :pac:

It's the little things.

kerryked

Candie wrote: »

It's the little things.

True that.

It's amazing how one small thing can change your whole outlook on the day. I work with computer software myself, so my day has many ups and downs, when my code runs as intended, the world is my oyster :pac:

Lia_lia

Story Bud? wrote: »

Not at all.

There's no real routine in my life. Aside from things that "have" to be done at a certain time, like being in work etc.

Sometimes I wish there was, but I'm not really wired that way.

This is me also.

Fox_In_Socks

Fairly routined. I'm a bit like a robot at this stage. For those in relationships, is there a joint routine between ye?

Lia_lia

I'm in a relationship and live with himself and no. We work difference shifts so generally get up at seperate times. I generally eat dinner at work so we rarely eat dinner together. And if we do eat dinner together it's usually seperate meals as I don't eat meat and he does.

We do tend to go to bed together though if we have work the next morning. Whenever he is off he stays up all night and I prefer going to bed around the same time every night.

Spanish Eyes

kerryked wrote: »

So you have loads of time on your hands to do anything, or nothing, or whatever life throws at you, very jealous :cool:

Out of interest, did you find it hard not having a kind of work routine any more?

Thanks. It is great have to say. Never looked back, just walked out the office door at 6pm the day I left like it was an ordinary end to the working day!

Don't find it difficult AT ALL not having a workday routine, well that's what not having to work anymore is all about!The only rule I have is always to get out of the bed before 9am. Otherwise the day is gone, and lying on becomes routine!

I travel a lot now, I do bits and bobs, my partner also retired early so we go for long walks/hikes a couple of times a week, followed by a nice lunch.

And I'm glad to see you said in your post that I have the freedom to anything or NOTHING. Doing nothing is very important too. Some people who retire are planning their retirement so that it's busier than when they at work. That is NOT me.

I enjoy indolence too much.

But remember I had to work long and hard for donkey's years to be able to get out early.

To be recommended, although I know most posters on this site are a lot younger than me.

Lollipops23

Nah I wouldn't be too set in my ways- I'd have routines, but more from practicality than desire for routine.