Habits
Small steps that worked for real people, on habits.
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- Anchor the wake-up, not the bedtime
- Ask what the game was drowning out
- Change one thing, until it holds. Then the next.
- Curiosity finds what shame can't
- Cut the one game that only brings relief
- Gaming addiction is real — and so are the exits
- Most of the pain is in the before
- Rationed play, or none at all — know which player you are
- Replace the game, or it moves back in
- Resume, don't reset
- The game was engineered to win — drop the self-blame
- Turn off your watch history — the rabbit hole closes
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All 81 tips on habits
- A start too small to refuse
- Anchor the wake-up, not the bedtime
- Ask what the game was drowning out
- Beat the thing you keep putting off with a two-minute start
- Biggest problem first — and slips are just slips
- Borrow the audiobook for the drive
- Budget for the boredom
- Change one thing, until it holds. Then the next.
- Choose how to stop by how your last try went
- Choose what refills the feed
- Close the notes and say it out loud
- Count the caffeine and nicotine before you blame the stress
- Curiosity finds what shame can't
- Cut the one game that only brings relief
- Cut the sugar you stir in first
- Decide the quitting date before you start
- Discipline is not isolation
- Do nothing for ten minutes before you start
- Do the hard thing when you're sharp
- Empty the car at the pump
- Five minutes with a book you already loved
- Gaming addiction is real — and so are the exits
- Give the fog three weeks
- Give the other hand a job
- Give the slow driver a cake to carry
- Keep showing up. Intensity can wait.
- Keep the cups, weaken the coffee
- Let the kids call out the bikes
- Look before you go, even when the light is yours
- Most of the pain is in the before
- Move the caffeine before you drop the can
- Not trying is the only 100%
- One mark for feet, two for inches
- Park a few spaces from the cart return
- Pause and ask what you actually want before you eat
- Photograph the haircut from the back
- Pick an alarm you can afford to hate
- Pick the hobby that needs no thinking
- Push your forehead toward the camera
- Put the fork down between bites
- Put the reason across the room
- Put the sock on the doorknob
- Put your bag on the back seat next to the child
- Put your foot through the strap
- Rationed play, or none at all — know which player you are
- Replace the game, or it moves back in
- Rest days are part of the program
- Resume, don't reset
- Say ‘I get to’ only about what you would miss
- Say ‘not a priority’ only to yourself
- Slow down and leave room when you pass a walker
- Start smaller than feels worth doing
- Start with a walk you can talk through
- Stronger, not smaller
- Suck first, master later
- Take a bag on the walk
- Take the lecture at one and a half
- Take the wallet out before you sit down
- Tell the ones who will ask
- The closet keeps its own score
- The decision happens in the shop
- The game was engineered to win — drop the self-blame
- The greats failed their way to the right path
- The habit is the goal. Fitness is the result.
- The hundred keys
- The plan you can keep on a bad week
- The scroll is the symptom
- The threshold mile
- The trick is the missing lyrics
- The urge starts at a rough edge
- Treat the hand habit and the nicotine separately
- Turn off your watch history — the rabbit hole closes
- Turn the first cross the other way
- Type the address in yourself
- Wear a new scent on the trip
- Week three is where it starts counting
- What the captions actually fix
- Write down every address you have lived at
- Write slower, from the shoulder
- Year first, and the folder sorts itself
- Your first hundred phrases
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