Habit reality check
- What is the smallest version?
- What will trigger it?
- What will you do on a bad day?
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Habits & Productivity
Not a system to optimise your days, but a set of workable ways to make the important things easier to do and the unimportant things easier to leave.
In this section
Five areas, each with guides, exercises and reading lists.
01
Habits
How habits actually form, why most fail in week three, and how to design one that survives a bad day.
Read the article02
Routines
Morning and evening routines without the performance. Built around the life you really have.
Run a Weekly Reset03
Time Management
Calendars, constraints and the honest maths of a working week.
Plan with constraints04
Procrastination
Usually a feeling problem, not a time problem. Practical ways to start the thing you are avoiding.
Read the article05
Digital Balance
Rules for phones, notifications and screens that you will actually keep.
Protect your attentionMake your week easier
Compact exercises for building habits, planning capacity and starting the work you keep avoiding.
Weekly capacity check
- Fixed commitments
- Available time
- Top 3 priorities
- What will not fit this week?
Procrastination starter
- What am I avoiding?
- What feeling comes with it?
- What is the first 2-minute action?
Digital balance audit
- Which notification interrupts me most?
- Which app do I open automatically?
- One rule to test for 7 days
Routine anchors
Choose one small action for each anchor, then keep the first version easy.
- After waking
- After lunch
- End of work
- Before bed
Latest reading
Articles and tools for habits, routines, time and procrastination.
HabitsA habit is a small promise to your future self. Make it smaller.
The case for starting so small it feels slightly ridiculous, and why that is the point.
ProcrastinationWhy you avoid the email you have to send
Avoidance is information. Here is how to read it and move through it in under five minutes.
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