Oh man, that reminds me of the time I totally blanked on my sister's birthday. Felt awful, so now I have this whole color-coded calendar thing on my phone. It sends me alerts a week before, then three days out, then the day of. Way over the top, but I haven't missed anything since.

I read about habit loops in a book by Charles Duhigg. The hardest part was fighting the daily thought that future me could just do it tomorrow. Tbh, tiredness made it easy to listen to that voice. I heard somewhere that willpower is lower at night, which made sense for my struggle. So I started by setting a timer for just five minutes to do one thing. After a while, my brain got used to the new routine, and it became less of a battle.