The habit of habit engineering
"make a spreadsheet", "listen to this podcast/audiobook", "INBOX ZERO", "check out this cool new app" (which turns out to be fundamentally the same as the last app)<p>I feel like everything I've seen on this topic in the past 10 years is the same stuff over and over.<p>I used to be young and spriteful, and I'd  to get giddy at the prospect of "the new way" to form habits and improve whatever it was I wanted to  in my life, but now I'm just a jaded old man with the same problems. I've made some token improvements here and there but I'm willing to wager that if you pick up this spreadsheet today you won't be using it a year and a half from now.<p>It really surprises me that no real ground has been broken on this subject in recent years. We seem to be obsessed with the topic but it's a constant problem with a fairly stagnant set of solutions.