I PLAY THE GAME ON NOVICE. ALWAYS. Because I just suck that much.
I have an incredibly bad habit of always starting a new game. I swear, I must've started over a 100 saves by now. I don't think any of my characters has ever reached level 40. And the worst part of it is, that it's not that I get bored of my characters or anything! Oh no, I always end up creating the same damn characters over and over and over again. I only had two up until very recently, now I finally added a third one to complete the warrior/mage/thief trinity. And since I try to role-play my characters (at least in my own way, I don't know if there's some "proper" way to do it), I always do the same things, join the same factions and make the same choices with each character. I honestly have no bleeding idea why I do this.
I also sometimes play the game for hours without actually doing anything, as if to let my character to "take a day off." I just chill around in their home town, let them sleep in their own bed, maybe go to the inn for a while to have a drink, then go out and do some hunting/read some books/break into a neighbour's house and steal everything that isn't nailed down, 'cause hey, what's a better way for a thief to relax? And then head back to the inn, have some dinner and go back home for a good night's sleep. And then repeat all of this for a couple of in-game days. Just because, well, it's Skyrim. It's not like you're in a rush to anywhere or anything. Gods, I love this game so much.