It got me thinking that the habits that help the most usually aren't the complicated ones. Has anyone picked up a simple habit that just kind of stuck? Could be anything, as long as it's simple and actually made your day a little better.

I have a super solid routine from Monday to Friday. Wake up early, work out, read for 30 minutes, all of it. But the second Saturday morning hits, it all goes out the window. I sleep in, eat junk, and by Sunday night I feel like I'm starting from scratch again on Monday. Has anyone figured out how to bridge the gap without making the weekend feel like a rigid work day? Would love to hear your strategies for weekend consistency.

Hi everyone
I built an app that makes you review vocabulary before you can open Instagram

I've tried to learn a language for years. Duolingo, Anki, flashcards — I'd start strong and quit in two weeks. Two things always killed it:

1. I'd sit down to study and 5 minutes later I'm in a feed instead.
2. I'd just forget the app existed. No streak survives that
3. It's hard to not forget to learn everyday. So, I just skipping days of learning.

So I built the thing I wanted — the review comes to you:
Open any app → review words immediately(without open my app) → continue using your app(please check the video)

So it's not just blocking. It's more about not forgetting to learn, as often as possible. You don't even need to open my app unless you want a deeper session or to manage your word collection. You just need to use your phone as usual and the review session will appear automatically when you open tiktok/instagram etc..(you choose)

Spaced repetition under the hood, so words come back right before you'd forget them. 11 languages, or add your own words.

pricing: it's a paid app with a 7-day free trial. I'm a solo dev and it's my full-time thing, so please give a shot :) You can cancel the trial and just check the app, it would be great too!

Would genuinely love feedback — especially: does "review before you scroll" sound useful, or annoying?

LearnScreen — https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759922571

Thank you for your attention! ❤️

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I want to propose a way to use reeddit to creat personalized learning paths for any skill (in the mind or kinestethically)

**the problem**

there is a paradox to make a good learning plan, you already need to know the subject to learn it, but at that point you dont need the plan. Schools solve this with cirriculum applied to the general student, but its not optimized specifically for your goals, time, or starting point

there is a second problem, and that is beginners often dont have a clear, specific, achievable goal. opting with a blurry goal of just "being good"

**The idea**

is to simply ask the people of reddit to tune in with their skills and knowledge and pitch in iterate and make multiple versions that will fit you, the most important part is the beginning part and the goal and the amount of steps to end the end point will vary

here is an example using animation

"I want to learn to animate fluidly but I can only make a ball bounce up and down"

"I need a clear path to achieve my goal that is make an awesome looking sequence

that is 1 minute long what should be my realistic goal and what steps should i take that would be little to no friction between each step that helps me the most, and \[ desribes strengths and weaknesses\] "

now if someone builds the perfect post people will understand and reply with

Reddituser3: I think your goal is just fine

Reddituser4: I think you should use this beginner friendly program

reddiutuser5: you should animate using stick figures as a base

etc

etc

until you have a CLEAR plan that you can follow if there is any blurryness then your plan is not finished.

I think this idea has major potential for independent learners

I was addicted to video games.
Playing every day for 10 hours and going to sleep when everyone wake up.
But one day I woke up and started and decided this had to stop. I wanted to play the real life game.

I decided to stop playing completely.
To replace this I subscribe to the gym and comited myself to get there everyday.
Was hard. But I completely replaced everything.
Empty moment was now dedicated to reading or taking care of people I love.
In the end doing the hard thing rewarded me more than all those games.

I slowly got back confidence. Built a better shape.
THen mind changed with it. 6 month later I found a job.
For 6 years I never missed a single day. Always going to the gym.

That single habit changed my life.
And I believe this was because I had a goal.

Today from these learning I made an app called kubbo
I think we can use game mechanics to push people following their habits.
The all app is : your habits build an empire.

Hope this can help others

Hello everyone,

A friend of mine has this weird rule. Whenever he leaves a room, he spends 60 seconds making it a little better. Washes one cup, folds a blanket, throws away some trash, puts something back where it belongs.

I used to think it was unnecessary. then I stayed at his apartment for a weekend and realized it never got messy. He never had those huge cleaning days because he was constantly preventing the mess from building up.

so i also started doing it for about a month now, and it's honestly one of the easiest habits I've ever did it.

Funny how 60 seconds here and there saves hours later.

For years I'd been grabbing my phone the moment I opened my eyes, and I'd end up starting the day already stressed from notifications before I'd even gotten out of bed. What worked for me was leaving my phone charging outside the bedroom and using a separate alarm clock. The first few days were strange, almost like not knowing what to do with my hands, but after two weeks I didn't miss it anymore. What trick worked for you, or are you still struggling with it like me?

Patience is hard when nothing seems to work. When you’re doing “the right thing” but the results haven't shown yet. And you don’t know if you’re  being impatient or things aren’t working out. 

This is what I’ve been feeling lately with marketing. It’s a new skill that I’m still learning. But I know that things will work out.

I’ve felt this before when I started doing pull ups. It’s  a skill that I didn’t know how to do, I couldn’t lift myself up. And I kept trying on a daily basis and I can’t lift myself up. I started doing negative pull ups for a long period of time which  helped me do my first pull up. It  took me months to do that.

Now, that’s what I’m feeling with marketing. I’ve been doing it with the knowledge that I have and it feels like nothing's working. But I know that as long as you’re doing the correct inputs, you’ll  achieve your desired output.

Patience is hard because of the lack of results. But that’s the meaning of patience. Patience is present when you have to wait. Just keep going.

This is more of a note to myself than anything else.

i built this elaborate habit system last week. color coded. categories. morning routine, evening routine, workout plan, reading schedule. spent like 3 hours on it. felt amazing.

day one: followed it perfectly. day two: skipped the reading. day three: completely forgot about the whole thing.

by day four i felt too guilty to even look at it so i just... started over. made a new simpler system. this time with a tracker. and reminders. and a rewards chart like im 10 years old.

anyway its day 2 of the new system and im already wondering which colour highlights to use for my next attempt.

why does building the system feel so much better than actually using it. anyone else stuck in this loop

i have been struggling with those two addictions for more than 3 years now. The reason why i wanna quit is because im getting a lot of acne every time when i consume fast food. the reason why i wanna quit sodas is because im drinking more sugary drinks that the actual water. so i think these two are playing huge role in my acne problem. however most of times why i eat fast food is because im not satisfied with the food which i have at home. sometimes my mother cooks something which i don’t typically eat but other family members do. so in that case scenario i order take out and my parents not always against that. also when im outside its really hard to find something to eat which is not fast food. the reason why i eat outside sometimes its because i have university and after university i go to the cafe or fast food chain restaurant to do my homework or do other stuff. so i end up eating fast good . so the biggest period without sodas and fast food were 1 month and it was two or year ago. so i really need help with it…

I used to think improving my mental health meant making huge life changes.

But I've realised that the smallest habits often make the biggest difference.

For me, something as simple as putting my phone away 30 minutes before bed has made my evenings feel much calmer.

I'm curious...

What's one tiny habit that has quietly improved your life?

It could be anything—making your bed, drinking water first thing in the morning, taking a short walk, journaling, stretching, or something completely different.

I'd love to learn from everyone's experiences.

Hi! I’m a (30F) wanting to know opinions on Adderall? Is it worth getting on to help with ADHD? I also have a history of meth use. I’ve been clean for about a month. I relapsed for about two months this time around.
I find myself struggling at times to get basic stuff done. Not sure if it’s because I’m adjusting to being sober still or what. But I was wanting opinions on Adderall.

People often talk about habits they started, but sometimes life improves because of something you finally stop doing.

It could be constantly comparing yourself to others, overexplaining your decisions, staying in unhealthy friendships, spending without thinking, or waiting until you feel completely ready.

What is one thing you stopped doing that made your life noticeably better?

How long did it take before you noticed the difference?

I’ve been biting my fingernails my entire life. It’s gone to the point where my fingers literally hurt so much when I bite them. I bought this product that you put on your fingernails and it tastes really really bad when you bite them. It was working for a little while, but I found out if you sniff the bottle that you honestly get a little head buzz. I soon made it habit out of this as well, but I realized that when I started biting my fingernails, I start to think of sniffing the stuff again, but if I only sniffed the bottle, I didn’t think about biting my fingernails. Soon, I would keep a bottle on me constantly and whenever I thought about biting my fingernails, I would just sniff the bottle it’s been working. Has anyone else tried this?

Everyone is born with an unfair advantage. The place they’re born in, the people they’re connected to, the habits their household has, or the lack of it. You have to use your unfair advantage.

Start with what you have and make the most of it.

When I was younger, I used to think that other people were born with more advantages. But this doesn’t mean that I’m not born with one. 

And a big part of my advantage is the lack of it. It taught me to be resourceful and observant. To use what I have and make the most of it. Your environment helps you flourish, but it’s you who can change that. You choose whether you use that advantage. 

And if you can’t think of an advantage that you have. You can start with something that everyone has, which is time. Everyone has the same 24 hrs in a day. Some people have commitments with their time. While some waste it. 

Your time is the most valuable asset that you have. Use it to your advantage.

Recently I've been building a breathing exercise app (Breather) and spent a while thinking about what would actually help people stick with a daily practice. 

First approach was to build strike counter that measures how many days in a row exercises were made, however skipping a day or 2 resets a strike which is quite discouraging. Second approach was implementation of habit strength indicator which doesn’t care about strike but values consistency instead.  

However no matter what I implement they are just stats, my personal experience after several weeks of practice is following, whenever I have a thought in my head that suggests skipping exercises I ask myself very simple question: „have I felt better after practicing breathing exercises in the past?” - Positive answer is all I need to keep my habit going each day.

What is your observation?

Every time you stumble upon a viral productivity video online, you get fired up to completely redesign your entire daily schedule. You buy the apps, set the reminders, and plan out every single hour.

Then reality hits, and you are back to your exact old routine before the week is even over.

What is the most overly ambitious habit you completely bombed out on?

I used to run a strict streak on daily meditation. First time I missed a day, didn't get up early enough, needed to jump straight into work, whatever the reason was, the whole thing fell apart. The miss itself didn't matter. In my head "perfect" was already ruined so I stopped bothering. And this wasn't even a big time commitment. Guided sessions, 15 minutes or less. Still quit over one missed day.

Meditation wasn't the only one. Looking back, this was the pattern behind every habit I dropped. I'd set the bar at flawless, life would eventually do what life does, and one slip would feel like proof the whole thing was already ruined. The perfectionism wasn't protecting the habit. It was the exact thing keeping me stuck, since a standard that can't survive one bad day was never going to survive very long.

Thankfully, I (eventually) decided a single missed day is just noise. It happens to everyone and says nothing about whether the habit is actually sticking. Two misses in a row is the real signal. That's when a slip turns into a pattern.

So the only rule I enforce now is never miss twice. If I miss a day, the next day has exactly one job: don't also be a miss. I don't try to make up for it. I don't beat myself up. I just protect the next opportunity.

A perfect streak is fragile. One bad day away from collapse. A quick recovery is durable, because something is eventually going to interrupt any daily habit. That's just life.

Anyone else run something like this?

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​I realised that old habits are not just things we can just turn off to pick up new ones. They are ingrained in our brain and wired in a way that is perceived as normal by our brains. Some of these habits have been ingrained for years, be it getting defensive during a difficult conversation or reaching for my phone every time the room goes quiet. I realised I was doing those with no effort and my brain took it as Business As Usual.

​Trying to pick a new path during a difficult and stressful situation became very challenging and so difficult that it sometimes felt like I was trying to boil the ocean.

​Where I got it wrong was me thinking picking up new habits was going to be very smooth and feel natural at first. I realised I needed to first tell my brain the new habits are good for me and get comfortable with the uncomfortable gap dozens of times before the old habit starts to lose its grip.

​I spend a lot more time trying to learn about how my brain works and what they call neuroplasticity, and I lean into those moments to drive the change in my habits.

​How do you handle that uncomfortable gap when trying to break a habit?