This 2025 has been a pretty rough year for me tbh. I committed lot of mistakes I regret now, but fortunately I got back on track thanks to analysing those errors I made and learning through some books (like Atomic Habits). I would like to share with you guys these lessons so you don't repeat it as I did too many times. Hope they help you!:
Weekly Review: Basically it's planning my whole week a Sunday evening. Goals, habits, events, literally everything I will do that week. Pretty simple, but you must take a few hours to structure it well.
Accountability: Simple. Talk to a friend or a family member with the same or similar mentality/objectives as you and tell them to do this accountability deal: Imagine both of you are studying programming (as my case) and whenever one of you don't study the agreed amount of hours, he must pay you a specific amount of money or any other punishment. It must be painful to do, but do not exceed please 🤣.
The 5-Minute Start: Commit to just 5 minutes of any difficult task. 90% of the time, you continue past 5 minutes once friction is overcome. Before that I would scroll through YouTube and Reddit because the task itself seem really complicated to do, so I just didn't want it to do it. But this 5-minute start made the whole difference tbh.
Set Up Tommorrow: Prepare your workspace, clothes, and meals the night before. Could sound harmless, but not doing those little actions in the morning can save you a lot of energy during the day for more complex tasks.
The 2-Day Rule (The most important one): NEVER MISS AN HABIT TWICE. This simple rule has been more effective than any complex tracking system. If you don't do it two times in a row, it becomes a new habit, but a bad one. So be careful with that.
Following these 5 lessons will help me achieve my yearly goal for sure and I hope it will for you.
What is your 2026 goal? I will love to hear you and discuss about that.
by Mammoth-Car3183