Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 228
SIMPLE Habits Framework
A framework is scaffolding, not the building. SIMPLE Habits Framework holds your thinking up while you do the real work.
Use the framework as a checklist, not a straitjacket. The moment it starts answering questions for you, rather than sharpening them, put it back in the drawer.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
The kirana shop opens at eight sharp, festival or fever. Ask the owner his secret and he will point at the shutter, not at his willpower. Systems outlast moods.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. That is all. A small tool, honestly kept, beats a large one admired.