Connecting goals and habits
On the friction of tracking goals and habits in separate apps, and how to close the gap in one place.
Why New Year's Resolutions Fail, and How a System Fixes It
Why the goal you wrote down on January 1st is usually gone by February, and how to sustain it with a system instead of willpower.
A Goal-Task Tree for Solo Founders and Freelancers
How to structure goals when you're running product, marketing, and finances all by yourself, with no team and no set process.
The Burnout That Shows Up When You Can't See Where Today's Work Is Going
The to-do list keeps growing, and at some point you stop being able to see where any of it is headed: that's often where burnout actually starts.
The Reticular Activating System and Goal Setting: Getting Your Brain to Keep Noticing
Decide to buy a new car and suddenly you see it everywhere on the road. It's often blamed on the 'Reticular Activating System (RAS),' but that's not quite right. Here's the accurate explanation, applied to goal setting.
Why SMART Goals Fall Apart in Practice, and What to Add
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound: why goals that check every SMART box still quietly fizzle out, and what fills the gap.
Retic vs Habitica: Comparing Habit Trackers
Habitica turns habit management into an RPG. Retic instead focuses on structuring goals, habits, and tasks as one connected tree.
How Do You Track Avoidance Habits Like Quitting Smoking or Late-Night Snacking?
The particular difficulty of recording that you 'didn't do something,' and how to actually handle it.
Retic vs Streaks: Comparing Habit Trackers
Streaks wins on check-and-done simplicity. Retic keeps that simplicity while measuring habits differently and connecting them to goals.
A Checkmark Isn't Enough: Three Ways to Track a Habit
Simple check-off habits, numeric habits you build up, and habits kept by not doing something: a look at real examples of tracking each the way it actually fits.
Breaking a Big Goal Into Small Habits: Using a Marathon as an Example
Watch 'finish a marathon this year,' an intimidating and vague goal, actually get broken down into monthly distance and a weekly running habit.
Retic vs Notion: Comparing Goal-Tracking Tools
For anyone using Notion to track goals: a fact-based look at what's shared and what's different.
You Checked It Off, So Why Didn't the Goal Move?
On that specific moment when you finish a task and check it off, only to find the goal screen looks exactly like it did yesterday.
Why Tracking Goals in Notion Falls Apart (feat. Manually Calculated Progress)
The common pattern of setting up a beautiful Notion goal database, only to abandon it: the problem isn't willpower, it's the manual progress math.
The Problem With Managing Goals and Habits in Separate Apps
Goals in Notion, habits in a tracker app: the friction of going back and forth, and a way out of it.