If, like me, you struggle to keep up your good habits, let me give you some good advice I often fail to follow:
Just accept it. Settle for the meanest, most pathetic effort you can manage.
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Read one page. Write two sentences. Do one set of reps. Meditate for five minutes (or two, or one).
Just do that. Because the alternative isn't doing it right - the alternative is not doing it at all.
So don't be a chump.
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Like now: I am going to walk the dog until she's had a piss, then meditate until midnight. Then sleep, because I have to.
I should have had more time for both of those things, but I fucked up. Wasted time. So now I need to do at least a bit of both, lest I stop entirely.
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Last time I had this resigned attitude, I actually got shit done. Eventually, a lot of it.
If you want to be competent, don't waste energy fighting your incompetence. It don't work that way.
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Ok, gave the dog a proper walk. My dumbityness is not her fault.
So that means 15 minutes less sleep, to make way for meditation.
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You keep at a habit through the stupid obstacles you make for yourself, eventually you figure out it's simpler just not to make them.