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How habits form, how to keep them, and what we are building at Loggd.
The daily check-in: rate the day, write one line, keep going
Rate the day from 1 to 10, write one line about what the number was for, and read the month back instead of your memory of it.
Latest posts
Year in pixels: the grid that shows you a whole year of days
One cell per day, a key of five colours, and a whole year on one page you can still read in December.
9 Sept 202612 min read
60 one-line journaling prompts for a daily check-in
Sixty prompts you can answer honestly in eight words, grouped by whether the day was hard, good, stuck, a Sunday, or the day before a decision.
9 Sept 202612 min read
How to set goals you will actually track
A goal stalls when there is no behaviour underneath it, so find the habit that moves the outcome before you write another deadline.
9 Sept 202613 min read
Deep work in practice: how long a session should be, and what to bind it to
Session length is a guess about the work rather than a rule, and 90 minutes is the ceiling for a reason.
9 Sept 202611 min read
The habit loop: cue, routine, reward, and how to redesign each
Cue, routine, reward: what each part is doing, and what happens when you change exactly one of them.
9 Sept 202612 min read
How to stay consistent when motivation is gone
A smaller commitment on more days, and one rule for the morning after you miss.
9 Sept 202611 min read
Tiny habits and the two-minute rule: start smaller than feels reasonable
Shrink the habit until the version you would do at 11 pm on a bad day is the version you promised.
9 Sept 202611 min read
Habit stacking: anchor new habits to the ones you already keep
Attach the new habit to one you already keep, and spend your effort on picking an anchor that does not move.
9 Sept 202612 min read
Self-discipline is a system, not a personality trait
The people who look disciplined are not winning more fights with themselves, they are having fewer, and that is something you can arrange in advance.
9 Sept 202613 min read
How to build good habits: a system that survives a bad week
Seven steps, each with an example you can set up tonight, built around the bad week that usually ends things.
9 Sept 202613 min read
How long does it take to form a habit? Longer than 21 days, and that is fine
The honest answer runs from a couple of weeks to most of a year, and a single missed day barely moves it.
9 Sept 202612 min read