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1-1-1 Method - A simple evening journaling practice: 1 win, 1 challenge, 1 gratitude.
Two-Day Rule - A habit maintenance strategy where you never skip a habit two days in a row.
Action Triggers - Specific cues or situations that prompt desired behaviors automatically.
Activation Energy (Psychology) - The initial effort required to start a behavior, determining likelihood of action.
Activation Energy - The initial mental and physical effort required to start a task, borrowed from chemistry as a productivity metaphor.
Attention Gym - Regular practices for building and maintaining attentional fitness and focus capacity.
Behavioral Activation - A therapeutic approach focusing on engaging in meaningful activities to improve mood and break depression cycles.
Behavioral Contagion - The spread of behaviors through social groups, where observing others influences actions.
Benefits of Journaling - The many advantages of regular journaling for clarity, productivity, and personal growth.
Bright Lines - Clear, absolute rules that eliminate decision-making and reduce temptation.
Capture Habit - The trained behavior of immediately capturing thoughts, ideas, and information.
Capture on the Run - The practice of being always ready to capture ideas and thoughts whenever and wherever they arise, not just at your desk.
Choose Your Hard - A systems design principle about using friction strategically to make undesirable behaviors difficult and desirable behaviors easy.
Compound Effect - Small, consistent actions accumulated over time produce massive results through exponential growth.
Consistency - The practice of showing up regularly and maintaining steady effort over time.
Daily Gratitude - The habit of practicing gratitude every day through structured reflection or expression.
Digital Mindfulness - Intentional, aware use of technology - choosing how you engage with digital tools rather than being driven by them.
Environment Design - Shaping your physical and digital surroundings to make desired behaviors easier and unwanted behaviors harder.
Evening Routine - A structured sequence of activities to end your day and prepare for tomorrow.
5 Minute Journal - A quick daily reflection format for building journaling habits.
Five-Minute Rule - A productivity technique where you commit to working on a dreaded task for just 5 minutes, often creating enough momentum to continue.
Focus Rituals - Consistent practices that signal and support the transition into focused work.
Focus Triggers - Environmental or behavioral cues that reliably initiate focused concentration.
Forcing Function - Constraints or mechanisms that compel specific behaviors or outcomes.
Gratitude Habits - Regular, automatic practices that cultivate and express appreciation in daily life.
Gratitude Journal - A practice of regularly recording things you're grateful for.
Gratitude Practice - Intentional activities designed to cultivate and express appreciation for life's positives.
Gratitude Practice - The habit of regularly acknowledging and appreciating the positive aspects of life.
Habit Loop - The neurological loop of cue, routine, and reward that underlies all habit formation.
Habit Stacking - Linking new habits to existing ones to leverage established neural pathways.
Habits Define Identity - Your habits and routines are part of you - they shape your life and define who you are.
Happiness Habits - Regular practices scientifically shown to increase sustained wellbeing over time.
High Performance Habits - Brendon Burchard's research-based framework of six habits that drive sustained excellence.
Identity-Based Habits - Changing behavior by focusing on who you want to become, not what you want to achieve.
If-Then Planning - Creating specific plans linking situations to actions: 'If X happens, I will do Y.'
Implementation Intentions - A planning strategy using if-then statements to specify when, where, and how you will perform a behavior.
Information Diet - Intentionally curating information consumption for quality over quantity.
Information Hoarding - Compulsively collecting information without processing or using it.
Information Snacking - Consuming small, bite-sized pieces of information rather than engaging with substantial, nourishing content.
Instant Gratification Syndrome - The tendency to prefer immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards.
Interstitial Journaling - Capturing thoughts and notes in the gaps between tasks throughout the day.
Journaling - The practice of regularly recording thoughts, experiences, and reflections.
Keystone Habits - Habits that trigger a cascade of positive changes across multiple areas of life when established.
Knowledge Worker Habits - Recurring behaviors that support effective cognitive and information work.
Metronomes and Momentum - The principle that regularity and consistency, like a metronome, build momentum that compounds over time.
Mindful Eating - Full attention to the experience of eating - taste, texture, hunger cues, and the act of nourishment.
Mindset Over Tools - Prioritizing methodology, habits, and mental models over specific tools in knowledge work.
Momentum Building - Creating forward motion through small wins that generate energy for larger efforts.
Morning Pages - Three pages of stream-of-consciousness writing first thing each morning.
Morning Routine - A structured sequence of activities to start your day intentionally.
Neuroplasticity - The brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life.
1-1-1 Method - Daily gratitude practice: 1 person, 1 thing, 1 event to be grateful for.
Periodic Journaling - Regular, scheduled journaling practice at daily, weekly, or other intervals.
Periodic Reviews - Regular reflection sessions to review progress and plan ahead.
Pivotal Behaviors - The few high-leverage behaviors that drive disproportionate results in any change effort.
Positive Routines - Beneficial habitual practices that automate parts of daily life, reducing decision fatigue and supporting overall well-being.
Pre-Commitment - Making decisions in advance to avoid using willpower in the moment.
Pre-Focus Routine - A sequence of actions performed before focused work to prepare mind and environment.
Self-Discipline - The ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Self-Sabotage - Unconscious behaviors and thought patterns that undermine your own success and goals.
Shiny Object Syndrome - The tendency to chase new tools and methods instead of mastering current ones.
Ship 30 for 30 - A cohort-based writing challenge where participants publish one atomic essay per day for 30 consecutive days.
Start Small - Begin any endeavor with small, manageable steps rather than ambitious leaps, making progress easier and more sustainable.
Temptation Bundling - Pairing an activity you want to do with an activity you should do to make productive behaviors more enjoyable.
Today I Learned (TIL) - A daily practice of documenting and sharing small learnings.
Trigger-Routine-Reward - The three-part structure of habits: cue that triggers behavior, routine performed, and reward received.
Two-Minute Rule - If a task takes less than two minutes, do it immediately.
Urge Surfing - Riding out cravings or urges mindfully without acting on them, watching them rise and fall like waves.
Urgency Addiction - The compulsive need for urgent tasks and crises, avoiding important but non-urgent work.
Willpower as Muscle - The model that willpower can be strengthened through exercise and depleted through use.
Writing Routine - Consistent habits and practices that support regular, productive writing.

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