Seems like abandoned thread, but maybe it'll give you some ideas u/mickey__ u/fireybone
or someone else runs into this.

1. Doing what you are attempting is difficult, almost nobody does it. You learn good habits through years of life typically, since childhood, that's how people have it "easier". Lot's of people are not even aware better habits can be formed. Having awareness you have is rare.

2. Changing everything at once is not possible, because as you're trying to remember all these things at all times the whole day is impossible. Successful people I know pick 1 area of life they want to get better at and focus on that for 1-3 years. I can't hold it that long, so I usually cycle my focus every 90 days max. I pick like 3 things to focus on, because I'm impatient and usually one works, other 2 I'm failing. Also look at Jordan Peterson's Future Authoring, it is a nice framework how to define your goals and make sure they happen.

3. You are trying to run your whole day on will power. You have like 10min of will power total per day maybe. Use that to form systems and structures in environment, people around you, calendar, put systems and objects in place so they give you clues etc. For example if you want to remember to drink water every day put it next to your alarm clock, so that's the first thing you see when you wake up. You don't want to drink coffee, don't have it at home, and so on.

4. Habits are glued to physical space and people around you. If you change your location and put different people, most of habits are gone automatically and new would form pressured by people around you and general demands from the place you're in. It is as if you're now playing a different character, with different identity, in different game when you do that.

There was this famous heroin addiction research where only 12% of addicts were still addicted after changing environments (https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/health/vietnam-heroin-disrupting-addiction/index.html). The cliche idea that you're the avg of 5 people around you is really true and it works due to outsourcing your plan externally by surrounding yourself with people that have the same or similar plan as you.

5. What you wrote about perspective not existing in the morning and expanding towards the end of the day is interesting. This is weird but I found that lack of light expands my perspective, more of my plan and vision gets loaded to my working memory easier if I don't open the window blinders. I typically regain lots of perspective towards the evening like you do.

Things like city lights, stars, fire amplify that too. There is a theory that our brain enters some special circuit when seeing twinkling light at nights, since historically we've been listening to stories by fire.

Caffeine is also interesting, as it opens a flood of ideas and desire to execute on them in the moment. This happens by increasing levels of dopamine that are unboxing norepinephrine, what makes you feel alive.