It’s the time of year when NY resolution and 2023 goals chat comes in hot from all angles.

Which makes it easy to get caught up in it. “F* I should be setting goals. I should be doing this, this and this.”

Well, this free email course from James Clear (New York Times best-selling author of Atomic Habits) is the antidote to all that 👆

Evidence-based. No BS. Actionable stuff.

It’s a simple step-by-step guide for forming habits that stick. In 11 short email lessons.

My favourite takeaways so far:

1. Set habits not goals. Sure we’ve gotta know where we wanna go. But our habits are the only thing that’ll get us there.

1. Goal: run a marathon 🏃‍
2. Habit: run every day 🗓
   

2. Lasting change only comes from changing the beliefs about the person we are. Create identity-based habits. And then each time we do it, we’re casting a vote towards that identity change. And over time we slowly become that.

1. Habit: run every day 🗓 ‍
2. Identity-based habit: I’m the type of person who runs every day 🧠
   

3. Create a 2-minute version of our identity-based habit. And if we just do that, it’s a win. Master the art of showing up. Build from there.

1. 2-minute version: put runners on 👟
   

It’s seriously good. You can check it out here.