Practical guides, app tips, and ideas on habits and productivity.
Everyone says start with one habit. Across 7,877 habits and 4,219 people, the one-habit accounts have the shortest streaks. Here is why that is not a reason to add more.
You cannot delete a behaviour that is still being cued and rewarded. Find the cue, raise the friction, pick the replacement in advance, and count clean days.
Converting a price into hours only works if you use your real hourly rate: after tax, after work costs, and across the unpaid hours the job actually takes. Then knowing when to stop.
Most year-end reviews are a review of December. Here is the two-hour version: reconstruct the year from evidence first, then ask ten questions, then decide one thing.
A five-minute visual exercise for people who will never keep a log: draw your day from memory, check it against one honest day, and read the gap between the two pictures.
Automaticity is a spectrum, not a switch. What moves the timeline, what week two, week six and month three actually feel like, and why any estimate is only an estimate.
How decision fatigue actually shows up in an ordinary evening, why the famous science behind it is shakier than you have been told, and the only fix that holds: making fewer decisions.
A sinking fund is money set aside monthly for a known future expense. How it differs from an emergency fund, which categories catch people out, and why the transfer is really a habit.
Fifty micro habits that genuinely fit inside two minutes, grouped by area, plus how to pick yours and why growing one too early is how people lose it.
What separates deliberate practice from ordinary repetition, worked through four domains that each name the sub-skill and the feedback source, plus where the method stops transferring.
Every individual purchase is too small to argue with, which is why the annual number never gets calculated. How to run it category by category, and why the answer is not always quit.
Valerie Young identified five imposter types, and the standard advice fails each one differently. Here is a portrait of each, the counter-move that fits it, and why a written record beats reassurance.
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