@benlevelsup · Joined July 2026
Recovering perfectionist. I write about small changes that held up over years, not just weeks.
I tracked twelve habits on an app for two years, and the tracking itself became a chore heavy enough to abandon the habits along with it. What replaced it: tracking exactly one habit at a time, on a sticky note, until it...
A researcher's estimate of 35,000 daily decisions gets quoted everywhere, and I never believed it until I actually tried counting for one ordinary Tuesday, tally marks on an index card in my pocket. I stopped counting a...
The two-minute rule — if it takes less than two minutes, do it now — worked for me for exactly eleven days before it quietly turned into an excuse to interrupt real work with an endless stream of tiny tasks that each fel...