The Baseline Day: build a floor so discipline doesn’t fall through Some days soar. Some days scrape. The mistake is judging the scraped ones as failures instead of giving them a floor to land on. A Baseline Day is that […]
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The No-Mood Rule: do the small true thing whether or not you feel like it Some days carry you. Some days you carry them. You know the difference: mornings when the work pulls you in like a tide, and mornings
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The Doorframe Pause: choose your next true move at every threshold Most days don’t fall apart in the middle of a task.They bend at the thresholds—in the doorway moments between things. You stand up from the desk to “grab a
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The First Ten Seconds: design the start so willpower isn’t needed There’s a tiny piece of time that decides more than you think.Not the hour on your calendar—the first ten seconds. You open the laptop and your hand drifts toward
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The One Honest Thing: finish one small truth each day Some days end without a shape. You were busy, yes—messages answered, links clicked, a dozen micro-decisions made—yet nothing you can point to and say: that happened. Daily discipline doesn’t need
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The Return: starting again without the drama There’s a kind of silence that comes after you stop showing up. Not a peaceful silence—an itchy one. The book waits open to the same page. The shoes sit where you left them.
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The First Quiet Five: giving your morning back to yourself Most days begin with a theft. Not of time—you still get your twenty-four hours—but of direction. Before your feet touch the floor, other people’s words flood your eyes. Headlines. Messages.
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The Evening Reset: end today so tomorrow shows up lighter There’s a kind of tired that sleep can’t fix: the tired of unfinished edges. Dishes that glare from the sink. A laptop that still hums with half-made decisions. A floor
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The Single-Task Window: how to give one thing the space to happen There’s a way work gets done that feels like rowing upstream—ten strokes, two meters, chest on fire—and a way where the boat slips forward almost by itself. The
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The Discipline Anchor: turning everyday moments into automatic action There’s a minute most routines fall apart.Not at the end—at the beginning. You stand in the kitchen with a warm mug, telling yourself you’ll write “after coffee.” The mug empties, your
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