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Why Self Control Is So Hard Right Now – and What the Science Actually Says
Anna Lembke self control teaching helped me stop seeing willpower as a character test. Before listening to her, I used to think self control was a character trait. That some…
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Tiny Fixes for a Tired Life: Mel Robbins’s Best Solo Episode
Tiny fixes sound too small for a tired life, but that is exactly why this idea landed for me.
There is a particular kind of tired that most of us know very well by now.
It is not…
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Why Most People Stay Stuck
I listen to podcasts in the car.
These are my personal notes on How to Get Ahead Mel Robbins – or, more naturally, How to Get Ahead by Mel Robbins – the episode that made…
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How to Build Habits That Suit Your Personality: Notes on Better Than Before
If you have ever wondered how to build habits that suit your personality, instead of forcing yourself into someone else’s system, Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before is…
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The Day I Understood Why Willpower Was Never Going to Be Enough
I have always admired people who seem disciplined by default.
The ones who get up when the alarm goes off without negotiating with themselves. Who go to the gym not because they feel…
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Slight Edge: 5 Powerful Lessons on Small Daily Habits
The Slight Edge is about how small daily habits compound over time, for better or worse. I used to think that transformation required a dramatic moment. A turning point. The decision that changes…
The Hour Before Everything Starts
March 29, 2026
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The Hour Before Everything Starts
It’s 5 AM. The house is completely silent. There’s 0,5l of water beside me – and the dog is still asleep , twitching through some dream about cats. Outside it’s dark. The village is dark. The…
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Change ma vie: The French Podcast That Brought Me Back to Myself
Change ma vie, Clotilde Dusoulier’s French personal-development podcast, found me in Fayence in 2020.
I was finally back in France after eighteen years in Wales, in the village…
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I Thought I Knew About Habits. I Didn’t Know Anything.
Here’s an embarrassing confession.
I have tracked habits in my Bullet Journal for years. I had beautiful little monthly habit trackers – little boxes to tick, colour-coded…
