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Howdy rebel ideapreneurs 🦸♂️🦸♀️
Anand writes a weekly newsletter about one-pot rice dishes — biryani, pulao, pilaf.
He started it to show a whole meal can come from a single pot.
To him, a good rice dish is dinner plus leftovers with almost no cleanup.
His readers want exactly that — one pot, big flavor, fewer dishes.
⛳️ Problem:
Anand swears he'll publish every week, then misses three Sundays running.
He waits to "feel ready," and the feeling rarely shows up.
When motivation dips, the newsletter simply doesn't go out.
A year in, his archive is full of gaps and half-starts.
His problem: how to publish weekly without depending on motivation.
🔥 The recipe
➡️ Tiny habits
BJ Fogg is the Stanford researcher behind the book Tiny Habits.
He argues we fail at habits because we make them big and lean on motivation.
Motivation is unreliable. It shows up some days and vanishes on others.
His fix: shrink the behavior until it's tiny.
Anchor it to something you already do, then celebrate it.
Fogg's argument: tiny, anchored, and celebrated is what makes a habit stick.
Fogg shrank his own habit to almost nothing.
His rule: after he pees, he does two push-ups.
Two became fifty-plus a day.
🚗 The steps
🐣 Step 1 — Shrink it until it's laughably small.
Don't commit to "write an issue."
Commit to one sentence. Small enough that a bad day can't stop it.
Anand's tiny habit: write one line of the newsletter.
Not a draft. One sentence.
On the worst day, he can still do that.
⚓ Step 2 — Anchor it to something you already do.
Attach the tiny habit to an existing routine.
"After I pour my morning coffee, I write one line."
Anand anchors his to coffee.
The mug hits the table, the laptop opens, one line goes down.
No deciding, no willpower — just the next thing after coffee.
🎉 Step 3 — Celebrate the second you do it.
A fist pump, a "yes," a small grin.
The good feeling is what wires the habit in.
Anand says "there it is" and smiles every time.
It feels silly. It also works.
The one line keeps showing up, and most days becomes ten.
The prompt below turns your weekly goal into a tiny, anchored, celebrated habit.
You just tell it what you keep failing to do consistently.
🧸 Tiny + anchored + celebrated = a habit that survives bad days.
🏄♀️ The prompt
Save this prompt as a Skill or add to Project in your favorite AI tool — build once, use often.
Update your input values in the prompt or just run as is, your AI sidekick will use the example values and will give output.
CONTEXT:
- (use what's available, fall back to the inline values)
- If my Voice Profile exists, write in that voice. Otherwise, write in a clear, warm, no-jargon voice — first-person, plain words, no startup-speak.
- If my ICP / Audience doc exists, target that reader. Otherwise, use the audience below.
Inputs:
The thing I keep failing to do consistently (the creative habit that dies whenever motivation dips):
{e.g. publishing my newsletter every week — I miss whenever I don't "feel ready"}
The routines I already do without fail every day (good anchors to attach a new habit to):
{e.g. pour morning coffee, brush teeth at night, sit down at my desk, make the kids' lunch}
What "too big" version I've been attempting (the over-ambitious commitment that keeps breaking):
{e.g. "write and edit a full issue in one sitting"}
For Outcome: {e.g. a tiny version of the habit, an anchor for it, and a way to celebrate so it sticks}
Outputs:
1. The tiny version — the laughably small version of the habit that even my worst day can't stop (one sentence, two minutes, etc.).
2. The anchor — the exact "after I [existing routine], I [tiny habit]" recipe, using one of the routines I already do.
3. The celebration — a specific, immediate way to mark the win so my brain wants to repeat it.
4. The growth path — how the tiny habit naturally expands once it's locked, without me forcing it.
Then name the ONE "feel ready first" story I tell myself that I should drop, because the tiny habit doesn't need it.
One habit shrunk too small to skip.
One anchor that removes the deciding.
One year of issues that actually ship.
That's it, my fellow renegades!
Yours 'making your AI sidekick work intelligently and exactly the way you want while you sleep' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️