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What to do when you get stuck on a step
An abandoned project rarely looks like a decision. It looks like a step you stopped at on a Thursday and never reopened. Getting stuck isn't a sign the plan is wrong. It's normal. What matters is recognising which kind of stuck you are, because each kind has a different fix. The four kinds of stuck…
How to stop missing deadlines (without remembering anything)
Deadlines aren't missed through forgetfulness. They're missed because you find out about them too late to do anything. The difference between "I forgot" and "I've run out of time" matters, because the second isn't solved by an alarm on the day. It's solved by a system that warns you as early as the…
The only reviews worth reading come from people who finished
Five stars from someone who opened the material once and found it "really well structured" tells you nothing about the thing you actually care about: whether the method works all the way to the end. Most review systems measure the first fifteen minutes of someone's experience. Which is precisely…
How we keep the guides honest
Any platform can claim it has quality content. It's more useful to show the mechanisms that force it. Here are ours, limitations included. 1. Reviews only from people who got at least halfway You can't leave a review straight after buying. You need at least 50% of the steps ticked, and your review…
Habits and projects are two different shapes of work
"I want to learn German" and "I want to register my company" both sound like goals. They aren't the same kind of thing, and treating them identically will sink one of them. A project ends. A habit repeats. A project has a finish line: the company is registered, the flat is painted, the site is…
Checklist: 12 things to do before you launch anything online
Launch day is a bad time to discover a broken form. Run this list the day before — all twelve items take an afternoon, and every one of them is something people routinely ship without. Does it work? 1. Click every link, on the live site. Not on your local copy. Internal links, footer links, social…
Pick one thing to finish this month
Five started projects doesn't mean five times the output. It usually means finishing none of them, plus paying a tax you can't see. The tax on open things Every started project costs you something even when you're not working on it: it occupies attention ("I need to get back to that"), it demands a…