Go to the main content
The Steady Day Small hours, repeated
A handwritten note held to a fridge door by a magnet, a shopping list beside it and a kitchen worktop out of focus behind

Section of the magazine

Habits & Routines

This section cuts across all the others. It is about the shape of a habit rather than its subject: how small the smallest version needs to be, what it should be attached to, what a bad week removes first, and why a record that keeps a total tends to end the thing it was recording.

Entries in this section

Habits and Routines, newest first

Every entry carries the date it was written. The dates are the only figures on this site that we ask anybody to take on trust, and they are the reason the order below is worth reading in either direction.

September 16, 2026

A bathroom windowsill in morning light, close framed: an open colour box, a tint brush, a strand test clipped to a piece of foil, and a glass of water with a hair strand half sunk.
Habits & Routines

Hair Colouring at Home and in the Salon

A calm look at choosing hair colour, reading your hair before dyeing it, and keeping coloured hair steady between appointments.

September 16, 2026

A stainless steel salon trolley in late afternoon light, holding a row of colour tubes and a small bowl of mixed tint, with a folded towel and a timer beside them, shot from slightly above.
Habits & Routines

Comparing Pro Hair Colour Prices in France

A calm look at how professional hair colour prices are compared in France, what references and brands are covered, and why technical guides matter for salon

September 16, 2026

A kitchen table in the late afternoon, a folded appointment letter from a regional health service next to a phone with a saved contact, low window light from the left, close framing on the.
Habits & Routines

Women in Spain: Rights, Health, Work

A calm look at equality, violence response, screening calendars and work rules for women in Spain, with practical Spanish resources.

August 20, 2026

A paper wall calendar hanging beside a light switch with pencil ticks on several days, a stub of pencil on a string
Habits & Routines

Tracking Habits Without Obsessing Over Streaks

A streak turns the count into the object, and then the habit gets performed in whatever degraded form keeps the count alive. A tick, an index card that expires at the end of the month, and no total anywhere.

August 18, 2026

A kettle steaming on a kitchen worktop in flat grey morning light, a single mug beside it and an unopened newspaper along the counter
Habits & Routines

Morning Routines That Survive the Bad Days Too

Most morning routines are designed on a good morning by a person with time. The mornings they need to work on are the other ones. Decide the floor in advance, in writing, on a good day, and then halve it.

August 10, 2026

A pair of trainers set out neatly on a doormat by a front door with a jacket on the hook above them
Habits & Routines

The Two Minute Rule for Starting New Habits

Define a new habit as the version of itself that takes two minutes, and treat that version as the habit rather than a warm up. The point is not the two minutes. The point is that starting stops being something you decide about.

WHERE THIS SECTION LEADS

The habits in Habits and Routines run into two neighbours more often than into any others. The first is Sleep and Rest, where the question of the evening is taken up from the other side, and the second is Everyday Nutrition, which handles the meals end of the same subject. Readers who prefer to follow the dates rather than the sections can do that from the front page, where every entry is listed in the order it was written.