A small step to achieve a big goal

✅ Today’s tip: Pair every goal with one concrete habit.

The key to following through on your big, lofty goals? Getting specific. Granular, even.

Gretchen Rubin, host of the podcast Happier With Gretchen Rubin and the author of several books on happiness, suggests paring every goal down to a single, concrete habit. For instance, if the goal is “have a fuller social life,” the habit can be “set aside the first Monday of every month for a standing date with friends.” All it takes is a small shift in framing to put those big-picture resolutions into action.

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