Oh man, I am such a creature of habit. I totally know what you mean about being terrified of breaking a routine for fear of everything getting all out of whack. For me, it's work. I am such a workaholic, and to be honest, Steemit is not a great place for a workaholic to be haha. There is a ceaseless amount of things you can do on here. You can create content, and when you are done with that for the day, you still "need" to interact, curate, comment, upvote. I could justify being on here 24 hours a day probably, on top of my other jobs. I hope at some point I can manage what you did with your exercise regime, and step away from work. A lot of it is my parent's mentality of "work first, play later" except a lot of the time there was no play, and that's what I have accepted as an adult. All work. It is grinding...but maybe one day soon I will be out of this vicious cycle. Thanks for the insightful post!
I know what you mean! I can imagine ceaseless work being particularly easy to justify too, because it's "productive" and "necessary". I wish for you balance and change and growth :)