Habits4 min
The Two-Minute Rule: How to Start a Habit You Keep Avoiding
Shrink the habit until starting is trivially easy. Not because two minutes achieves anything, but because starting is the part you are actually failing at.
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Topic
Getting Started With Habits: Beginner Guides
If you are starting from zero, start small. These beginner guides cover the two-minute rule, attaching a new habit to one you already have, how to track without obsessing over the numbers, and challenge ideas that give a new routine a finish line.
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Guides5 min
How to Track Habits: A Complete Guide
What to track, how many at once, what a good tracker shows you that a bad one hides, and when to stop tracking something entirely.
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Fitness & Health4 min
How to Actually Drink More Water Every Day
The advice is always 'drink more water' and never 'here is the mechanism'. The mechanism is a container in the right place and a habit attached to something you already do.
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Challenges5 min
30-Day Challenge Ideas That Actually Work
A month is long enough to change something and short enough to finish. Twelve challenges worth doing, and the three rules that decide whether you get to day 30.
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Habits4 min
Habit Stacking: How to Attach a New Habit to One You Already Have
The hardest part of a new habit is remembering to do it. Habit stacking solves that by borrowing a trigger from something you already do without thinking.
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