Practical guides, app tips, and ideas on habits and productivity.
Almost every article on this topic opens with a failure percentage nobody can source. Here is what we can actually say about January commitments, and the five mechanics that really kill them.
A theme instead of a resolution list, for people who have quit every January list they ever wrote. How to choose the word, a browsable set of candidates, and how to turn it into one commitment and one refusal.
I counted every task in the Loggd database. Across 21,655 one-off tasks, 35.9% got completed, and the ones that did not are a median of 56 days overdue.
We measured the "never miss twice" rule against 2,066 real habits. The second missed day is the steepest single drop, but there is no cliff at two.
Everyone says start with one habit. Across 7,877 habits and 4,219 people, the one-habit accounts have the shortest streaks. Here is why that is not a reason to add more.
You cannot delete a behaviour that is still being cued and rewarded. Find the cue, raise the friction, pick the replacement in advance, and count clean days.
Converting a price into hours only works if you use your real hourly rate: after tax, after work costs, and across the unpaid hours the job actually takes. Then knowing when to stop.
Most year-end reviews are a review of December. Here is the two-hour version: reconstruct the year from evidence first, then ask ten questions, then decide one thing.
A five-minute visual exercise for people who will never keep a log: draw your day from memory, check it against one honest day, and read the gap between the two pictures.
Automaticity is a spectrum, not a switch. What moves the timeline, what week two, week six and month three actually feel like, and why any estimate is only an estimate.
How decision fatigue actually shows up in an ordinary evening, why the famous science behind it is shakier than you have been told, and the only fix that holds: making fewer decisions.
A sinking fund is money set aside monthly for a known future expense. How it differs from an emergency fund, which categories catch people out, and why the transfer is really a habit.
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