Pick a fixed anchor for the work
Choose one window each day — early morning, after the school run, late at night — and protect it as your creative anchor. Add it to Dotty as a recurring block with a pre-flight checklist (coffee, no phone, current project open). The anchor matters more than its length; what's protected gets done.
Pair the work with a non-negotiable break
Almost every ritual in Currey's collection is bracketed by a long walk, a lunch with friends, or a fixed bedtime. Schedule the brackets explicitly and let them shape the working block — if the walk starts at 4, the writing has to end by 3:55. Dotty's day view keeps both halves of the rhythm equally present.
Tweak the ritual quarterly
Every quarter, reflect in a notebook page: what was working, what got skipped, what the season ahead demands. Adjust the anchor's start time, the project list, or the breaks. The ritual should serve your life — review it as deliberately as the work it produces.