Psychology
The Only Exercise Habit I Ever Kept Is the One I Deliberately Made Less Good
Four attempts at a proper routine, all abandoned inside two months. The fifth was worse in every measurable way and has run for three years.
Psychology
Habits
What makes a behaviour stick past week three, and why most of the advice is about week one.
Psychology
I Started Tracking a Habit and It Immediately Got Worse
The streak worked for eleven weeks and then became the point. What happened next made me change how I measure anything I want to keep doing.
Psychology
Habits Do Not Die in Week One. They Die in Week Three, and For a Different Reason.
The failure everyone plans for is motivation running out. The one that actually happens is the first disruption, and almost no advice addresses it.