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Course21 days3–20 min per dayDiscipline

Discipline that holds

Three weeks of discipline without the whip. Week one you build small: the two-minute rule, if-then plans, a morning that carries. Week two you meet resistance: procrastination as a feeling, action before mood, one track at a time. Week three you turn habits into identity, and practice the most important thing of all: coming back after a lapse. The energy rating on day two and day twenty-one shows where the force went.

How it works

One exercise, session or article per day for 21 days. You go at your own pace — the app remembers where you are, and you can pause and restart whenever you want.

Day by day

  1. 1
    Article
    Why habits hold, and why they break
    What research says about how habits are actually built, and why willpower is the wrong tool.
    3 min
  2. 2
    Self-assessment
    Where does your energy go?
    Four scales — body, head, desire and sleep — that show where energy leaks and where it is wisest to start.
    4 min
  3. 3
    Exercise
    The two-minute rule
    Shrink something you have been putting off to a start that takes under two minutes, and do only that.
    8 min
  4. 4
    Exercise
    The if-then plan
    Turn an intention into an if-then plan that links a concrete cue to an action.
    10 min
  5. 5
    Exercise
    Morning routine
    Notice where your mornings leak time, build a routine of four steps at most, and choose the one you never skip, even on a bad day.
    20 min
  6. 6
    Exercise
    Temptation bundling
    Pair a pleasure you love with a chore you keep putting off, so that one pulls the other along.
    10 min
  7. 7
    Exercise
    The week's restart
    Ten minutes on a fixed day to look back and choose the few important things for next week.
    10 min
Show all 21 days
  1. 8Procrastination is not laziness3 min
  2. 9Procrastination is a feeling10 min
  3. 10Action before motivation12 min
  4. 11Toward what you avoid10 min
  5. 12One track at a time10 min
  6. 13Do more of what works10 min
  7. 14What matters most?9 min
  8. 15The habit and who you are10 min
  9. 16Movement for mood8 min
  10. 17Sleep hygiene12 min
  11. 18Malin and the fourth day3 min
  12. 19Back after a break9 min
  13. 20WOOP: wish meets reality12 min
  14. 21Where does your energy go?4 min

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