WHETHER you work for yourself or for a company, you work for yourself. As such, your ability to use your aptitude and your skills is based solely on your personal effectiveness. Habits are “tax free”.

For a higher success rate and a chance to change your brain, why not try a mini habit? Read two pages in a book per day. Write 50 words per day. Do one push-up per day.

Best-selling self-help books tend to offer the same basic advice. ... Personally I like the summary in Mini Habits (2013): Make your daily practice "too small to fail." ...