The smallest version
Most habits fail because the first version was designed for a good week.
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Habits
Making the useful thing small enough that you actually do it.
A habit you can keep on your worst day is worth more than a perfect plan.
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Making the useful thing small enough that you actually do it.
A habit you can keep on your worst day is worth more than a perfect plan.
Most habits fail because the first version was designed for a good week.
Subtraction, done deliberately, so it does not happen by accident at six in the evening.
Five minutes tonight, spent on behalf of the version of you who wakes up.
The habits that last are the ones designed for your worst days, not your best.
New habits are usually designed on a good day, with a good day's energy assumed. The first difficult week ends them.
The alternative is to design for the bad week: two minutes, one page, one street. Something that feels almost too easy to count.
It counts because it survives. A small habit kept for a year outperforms an ambitious one kept for nine days, every time.
Reflect