Repeating drills day after day can look dull, but it builds mental clarity. How do you keep your daily practice from turning into mechanical repetition?
Representative tasks certainly can make you feel meditative. For example, cooking every day feels like meditation, or gardening in the evening makes you so much engaged that you forget about other things, you will be in a pure bliss
Following a specific routine can become helpful when you become used to it. Following a routine brings discipline in life. There are many people who do not follow a specific routine and their lives are not in a proper order.