> After becoming a father and undertaking a major rewrite at work, I had fallen off my ‘good habits’ wagon and was having a very tough time returning to my earlier state.
Becoming a father makes you have to practice discipline everyday. You don't get time to just waste time like you used to. You have to schedule it.
While Atomic Habits is a good book and best seller for a reason, the change we go through as individuals is much more telling of successful sticking habits.
Atomic Habits just makes you a little more aware which can also be done through any awareness practice (meditation, journaling, reading, etc).
> After that, I never bothered to track any of them.
After a certain point, your habits become...habit. You don't need to track them. That's because you're constantly aware of them and you've outgrown habit formation books.
I wrote an adjacent piece about what happens when your life operating system receives a breaking change like having kids:
Becoming a father makes you have to practice discipline everyday. You don't get time to just waste time like you used to. You have to schedule it.
While Atomic Habits is a good book and best seller for a reason, the change we go through as individuals is much more telling of successful sticking habits.
Atomic Habits just makes you a little more aware which can also be done through any awareness practice (meditation, journaling, reading, etc).
> After that, I never bothered to track any of them.
After a certain point, your habits become...habit. You don't need to track them. That's because you're constantly aware of them and you've outgrown habit formation books.
I wrote an adjacent piece about what happens when your life operating system receives a breaking change like having kids:
https://jondouglas.dev/lifes-operating-system/