Since the start of 2020, I have tracked a list of around ten daily habits. The list has changed over time as I iterate towards the best possible set of habits for me. My inspiration came from:

1. Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography.
2. Atomic Habits.
3. Extraordinarily poor control over my limbic urges.

What I’ve learned after six years of tracking habits

1. Preventing bad habits > sustaining good ones.
2. Tracking behaviour > tracking outcomes.
3. A habit that you don’t do every single day will probably fail. Moderation is for losers.
4. Sustainable imperfect habits > unsustainable perfect habits.
5. Adopting habits ****slowly is the only way to make them sticky. I now only adopt one or two per year.
6. Adopting habits slowly means you should only adopt habits that you anticipate keeping forever.
7. Habits are extremely personal so copying someone else’s probably won’t work.
8. You will get lots of rubbish advice or criticism from people who have no record of habit success. You may safely ignore them.

I’m writing all this because my habit for 2026 is to publish one new post every single day. See you tomorrow.