Category: The Experiment
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I’ve read Atomic Habits more times than I can count, and every read teaches me something new. This post explores how James Clear’s ideas have shaped my habits, identity, and environment. From financial tracking to redefining veganism as identity—not action—it’s about turning theory into practice, one imperfect day at a time.
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Tomorrow I start again—new week, new me—and I will never skip a gym day, choose unhealthy food or oversleep. But after a few days of pure willpower I crash back into old routines, climbing again to that precipice of “new,” hoping this time I’ll finally break free.
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I’ve lost count of the times I’ve tried—and failed—to make bullet journaling stick. Every time, I told myself it was because I wasn’t creative enough, disciplined enough, aesthetic enough. This time, I did it badly. Messily. Quietly. And somehow… that’s why it’s finally working. This isn’t a guide. It’s an admission. And maybe a permission…
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One Welsh lesson flips a switch: I’m changing, but my environment isn’t. This post shows how I set crisp boundaries and pocket‑size scripts to dodge “one more” pressures and keep friends onside while I evolve.
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or years, every habit I tried to build ended in the same place: beating myself up for falling short. I thought shame would push me to change. It didn’t. It just broke me down. This post is about learning a different way.
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I thought a perfect morning routine would fix everything. It didn’t. But it taught me something better: how to stop pretending, and start choosing who I want to become—one habit, one morning, at a time.
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I don’t deserve to be happy—or anything at all. This is what happens when you stop performing and start facing the truth, no matter how messy.
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“I don’t know why I’m doing any of this.” That was the terrifying realisation that led me to audit my entire life. This post is the result — an honest breakdown of where I am, how I got here, and what I’m doing about it.
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Burnt out, stuck, and overwhelmed by self-help advice—I’m giving myself one year to rebuild from the ground up. This blog is my personal experiment in radical honesty, mental health, and self-improvement that actually works.
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