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Best Apps for Habit Tracking: 5 Tools That Actually Work | Lifehack

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You’ve downloaded habit apps before. Set everything up on a motivated Sunday, felt that spark of possibility, then watched it all collapse by Thursday when life got in the way.

The culprit isn’t your willpower. It’s that most habit trackers obsess over streaks without addressing why you break them. A red X on a calendar doesn’t tell you what went wrong or how to recover. It just makes you feel like a failure.

The apps that actually work do something different: they build systems around your psychology, not against it. Here are five that understand this.

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Train It, Don’t Strain It: Strengthen Your Willpower | Page 19

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You’re not born with pre-determined willpower settings. Roy Baumeister and John Tierney explain that there are things you can do to build it – just remember to have a rest day now and then.

Don’t think that some people are born with more willpower than others. Like good, solid quads, how strong your willpower is actually depends much more on your training regime.

As Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney explain in Willpower, you can work out your willpower just by changing your behavior even slightly and then sticking to it. For example, you might try saying “yes” and “no” instead of “yeah” and “nope” for two weeks. Even sticking to such a small change can improve self-control in other areas of your life. Here’s why:

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