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Re:The thing standing between procrastination and daily prog... by omarhaneef on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:54PM (#28236239)
I am sure many of the readers here are aware of Tiny Habits (and the variations thereof).

To create a ritual/habit, you make first make the easiest component easy to do. Instead of writing for an hour, you just log in at 8am. Then you type a sentence and so on, and eventually you have a full blown habit.

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Re:The thing standing between procrastination and daily prog... by MarkLowenstein on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:08PM (#28237968)
I have a checklist to do every morning. The first item is "make coffee". I've been doing my checklist now for years.

Imagine if I had put an "eat that frog" item there instead. That checklist would be ancient history.

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Re:The thing standing between procrastination and daily prog... by aleken on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:08PM (#28236426)
Which one is it? I found a “Tiny Habit” and an outdated “Tiny Habits” on App Store.
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Re:The thing standing between procrastination and daily prog... by ulber on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:15PM (#28236531)
It's not an app (although those apps may help implement it, idk). It's a method from a researcher B.J. Fogg, who wrote a book called "Tiny Habits" [1]. I haven't read that one, but I listened to a similar approach in "Atomic Habits" [2].

[1]: https://tinyhabits.com/ [2]: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

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Re:The thing standing between procrastination and daily prog... by omarhaneef on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:03PM (#28237890)
yes. I haven't read atomic habits but I also understand it is a similar approach.

Worth taking the free 5 day program via email on the tiny habits website.

The insight there is that you need less motivation to act if the action is very easy so you make it as easy as necessary so that you don't need much motivation.

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