If you want next year to be the best year of your life, you don't have to wait for 1 January to start it - https://ideastothrive.gumroad.com/l/aos?utm_source=acast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=start-2027-now
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AOS is the app, guide and workbook I built to run this plan for you. Pick your start date and it counts your 52 weeks, labels your four blocks, logs each habit as Green, Yellow or Red with one tap, and walks you through the review every 13 weeks and the year close. No account needed, and it works offline:
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This video gives you a six-part plan for a whole year that starts on the day you choose. You'll find the first crack in last year's plan, pick your own day one and cut the year into four 13-week blocks. Then you plan it backward from week 52, give every habit a full size and a small size, decide ahead of time what a bad week looks like, and repair the plan every 13 weeks so it still works when motivation dies. All you need is a pen and a page.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Your Year Starts When You Choose
0:20 - 1. Find What Broke
4:13 - 2. Pick Your Own Day One
7:19 - The App That Keeps Track for You
8:17 - 3. Plan It Backward
11:48 - 4. Give Every Habit Two Sizes
15:40 - 5. Plan for the Weeks That Fall Apart
18:54 - 6. Repair the Plan Every 13 Weeks
22:11 - Start Your Real Year Today
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SOURCES
Chapter 1
- Strava's analysis of its users' logged activities (2019, about 800 million activities): the day the most people drop their New Year plans falls in mid-January.
Chapter 2
- Peetz and Wilson, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2013): a personally meaningful date such as a birthday works as a fresh start and raised people's motivation to exercise.
Chapter 3
- Park, Lu and Hedgcock, Psychological Science (2017): planning backward from the deadline raised motivation, reduced time pressure and improved performance, most of all for complex goals.
Chapter 4
- Dalton and Spiller, Journal of Consumer Research (2012): a detailed plan helped people with one goal and backfired for people with six.
- Lally and colleagues, European Journal of Social Psychology (2010): missing a single day did not materially affect habit formation.
Chapter 6
- Harkin and colleagues, Psychological Bulletin (2016): across 138 studies and about 20,000 people, tracking progress helped people reach their goals, most of all when progress was written down or made public.
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📚 BOOKS TO EXPLORE
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How to Change by Katy Milkman
Go deeper into Chapter 2: why a fresh start on a date that means something to you gives your motivation a real lift.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/059308375X?tag=ideastothrive-20
The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington
Go deeper into the four 13-week blocks: treating each quarter as its own year, with its own plan and review.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118509234?tag=ideastothrive-20
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
Go deeper into Chapter 4: making a habit small enough that you can still do it on your worst day.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0358362776?tag=ideastothrive-20
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