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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Make one list in the morning, glance at it a few times during the day, and move whatever is left onto tomorrow's list rather than letting it disappear.
The glancing matters as much as the writing, since a list written at eight and never looked at again is just a piece of paper. Carrying items forward…
Make handed-in homework one of the tracked targets. It is the thing that goes wrong most and the thing worth most when it goes right.
Homework has four separate places to fail: writing down what it is, bringing the right things home, actually doing it, and getting it back the next…
Look in often, say the good bits out loud, and stop for a few minutes about every hour. Three small things that carry more than any talk about concentrating harder.
Checking in supplies the noticing a child cannot yet do for themselves, and it lands better as a passing question than as an inspection. The praise…
Book time on your own the way you would book anything else. Not as a reward for having finished everything, and not only once you are already frayed.
Overwhelm often comes from the sheer volume of contact rather than from the work: lectures, housemates, group chats, the phone going all evening.…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
If it is out of sight it is gone, so build the system around what you can see. Clothes on an open shelf and books in the drawer is a perfectly good arrangement when that is what works.
Tidy usually means hidden, which is why so much storage quietly fails. Try the opposite: hooks instead of hangers, open boxes, a clear jar, one bowl…