#Habits
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3 Stoic Exercises That Will Help Create Your Best Month Yet
The page presents three Stoic exercises: get up and do the work, build or avoid habits one day at a time, and review your actions daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly.
Activation Energy - Mental Model
The note explains activation energy as the effort needed to start and maintain a change, and shows how planning, automation, mentors, and reinforcement lower the cost of action.
Becoming a Professional Software Developer: Identity Over Skills
Applies James Clear's identity-based habits framework to software development: developers abandon best practices under deadline pressure not from lack of skill, but because the practice isn't tied to their self-image.
The Power of Less: Changing Behavior with Leo Babauta
Tim Ferriss excerpts Leo Babauta's habit-change method: one habit at a time, a public commitment, and daily reporting for 30 days.
5 Ways I Read More Than 50 Books Last Year
Mike Dariano's account of going from a book a month to a book a week, built on quitting bad books, following other readers, and cutting the apps that compete with reading.
Systems have expiration dates — review them
A system that succeeded at one life stage can quietly become a thoughtless habit. Review periodically and retire the ones that no longer serve.
One tweak a week compounds the system
After the smallest version is running, the second rule is one deliberate weekly tweak — slow, low-friction optimization that beats heroic redesign.
Start with the smallest version of the system
First rule for a new system: design the smallest version that survives being done every day. Tiny actions compound; ambitious launches generate resistance.
Richest Man in Babylon and the 10% rule
The save 10% of everything that comes in rule turns a finance goal into a system — the destination becomes inevitable instead of aspirational.
Don't Change Thoughts, Change the System
00:04:44 — Don't Change Thoughts, Change the System
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Kevin Kelly compiles 103 short pieces of advice on work, relationships, habits, money, leadership, curiosity, and aging, framed as a birthday gift and guided by what he says he has learned by age 70.
Atomic Habits will drive you to that next level
The post applies James Clear’s four laws of habits to programming practice, using cues, habit stacking, small repetitions, and satisfying rewards to build good habits and make bad ones harder.
13 Steps for Building a Habit Stacking Routine
The page lays out a 13-step process for building a habit stack by starting small, choosing clear triggers, using checklists and accountability, and scaling only after the routine becomes consistent.
Habit Stacking: How to Build New Habits by Taking Advantage of Old Ones
The article explains that habits become easier when a new behavior is tied to an existing one. It gives a simple formula, examples, and advice for choosing a specific, reliable trigger.
Building Habits: The One Technique That Worked For Me
The post argues that habit stacking makes new habits easier by attaching them to automatic routines, keeping the stack small, and ensuring each step has a clear link and stable trigger.
Total renewal: why one life hack can change everything for you
The article argues that daily routine reveals the state of your life and mind, and that cleaning up your environment, habits, and roadblocks can lead to greater clarity and freedom.
9 Realistic Ways To Stop Procrastinating And Stress Less
The article links procrastination to stress, health, and money costs, then suggests small changes for paperwork, exercise, and complex work: shorten deadlines, automate, break tasks up, and ease perfectionism.
10 Simple Habits That Make Afternoons as Productive as Mornings
The article says morning energy runs out, so afternoon routines should use small, practical habits to keep focus, reduce fatigue, and avoid bad decisions.
3 Small Discipline Habits You Can Train
The post argues that discipline comes from repeated practice. It offers three self-talk habits to start one task, shrink it to the smallest step, and clear distractions before doing that step.
Why I Wake Up at 4:22 AM
The author explains a 4:22 A.M. morning routine built around chores, learning, reading, house logistics, planning, exercise, and sleep habits, arguing that small changes and better sleep quality make mornings more productive.
An Addict’s Guide to Overcoming the Distraction Habit
Leo Babauta describes distraction as a habit built on fear, fantasy, and fear of missing out, then suggests awareness, reflection, and concrete limits to recover attention and focus on what matters.
Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret
Brad Isaac says Seinfeld’s productivity trick is to write every day, mark each day with a red X on a yearly calendar, and avoid breaking the chain so daily action compounds into results.
5 Ideas to Create an Amazing 2015
Leo Babauta argues that an amazing 2015 comes from building habits one at a time, committing fully, reviewing weekly, relying on accountability, and treating setbacks as learning.
14 Ways To Manipulate Your Mind For Success
The page argues that habits work like mental patterns on autopilot, so repeated small actions can build character, behavior, and results over time. It lists examples from honesty and exercise to focus, confidence, and starting tasks.
The Power of Delay
Delaying a response can help with anger, sales pressure, habits, urges to snack, check email, buy things, play games, smoke, or criticize someone, while urgent delay should not be applied to what really matters.
7 Discipline-Mastering Practices
Leo Babauta says discipline is built through repeated practice, care, continual learning, and devotion to the purpose, then shows eight ways to practice discomfort, keep habits, and act without waiting for mood or reward.
6 Subtle Things Highly Productive People Do Every Day
Tim Ferriss says productivity comes from managing mood, avoiding morning email, questioning whether a task should exist, reducing distractions, building a personal system, and defining goals the night before.
12 Indispensable Mindful Living Tools
Leo Babauta presents mindfulness as a set of practical tools for staying awake to the present, handling stress, loosening urges and expectations, and practicing curiosity, gratitude, and compassion.
Create the Habits of Being Lean, in 7 Years
Leo Babauta argues that fast weight loss is usually temporary and that lasting leanness comes from changing eating, exercise, and coping habits slowly over years.
The 7 Habits of Calmness
Leo Babauta argues that calmness comes from habits, not from changing surroundings. He lists morning ritual, watching reactions, not taking things personally, gratitude, coping habits, single-tasking, and reducing noise.
The Four Habits that Form Habits
Babauta argues that lasting habits begin with very small actions, attention to discouraging thoughts, enjoyment of the practice, and a restart plan for missed days.
28 Brilliant Tips for Living Life
Leo Babauta compiles 28 brief tips from Twitter on making life easier, calmer, and more intentional, with suggestions about priorities, mindfulness, relationships, and letting go of stress.