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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
If you cannot start, the step is too big. Shrink it until it sounds daft: open the document, write the date, put one plate in the sink.
The catch is that the daft step has to be the whole of what you agreed to do, not a trick for getting yourself to do the enormous thing. Most days…
Put something you genuinely want at the end of the chain, and keep it where you can see it. A reward far off in the future is much the same as no reward at all.
Name it before you begin and write it at the top of the page. Keep it close: this evening rather than next term. It does not have to be impressive.…
Putting something in the diary does not guarantee it happens. It gives it a chance it did not have before. That is the honest promise, and it is still worth having.
Expect a fair few blocks to pass unused, particularly in the first month. That is not the system failing, it is the system doing what it does, which…
Every time your eye lands on the job you have never started, it takes a small toll. Ten of those on one list is a tax you pay all day without noticing.
This is the argument for cutting a list back hard, and it has nothing to do with tidiness. An item you are not going to do still costs you something…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
If everything came apart the moment school ended, it may be that the structure was never yours. It belonged to the timetable, and the timetable stopped.
School decides when you get up, what happens next and when the work is due, so nobody ever finds out whether the person can build a week from…