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3 Reasons Why Exercise is Not a Habit

February 21, 2026 | Renée Fishman

Attempting to create a consistent workout practice by treating exercise like a habit are doomed to fail, because exercise is not a habit.

Filed Under: Fitness, Habits Tagged With: decision fatigue, decisions, exercise, fitness, habits, rituals, routines

3 Reasons Your Idea List is a Trap

October 8, 2025 | Renée Fishman

A list of ideas is the lifeblood of consistent content creation, but it’s not always the miracle savior. Here are 3 reasons why your idea list is a trap.

Filed Under: Creating, Productivity Tagged With: ADHD, cognitive bandwidth, content planning, creating, decision fatigue, decisions, ideas, ideation, lists, productivity, writing

3 Ways You Exhaust Yourself Before You Even Start a Task

August 2, 2025 | Renée Fishman

Getting started is can be the heaviest lift of a task because we’re often exhausted before we even start. Here are three ways you exhaust yourself and drain your energy for a task before you even start.

Filed Under: ADHD, Productivity Tagged With: ADHD, decision fatigue, decisions, energy, exhaustion, fatigue, holistic productivity, logistics, planning, planning fatigue, procrastination, productivity, set-up, set-up fatigue, work

The Morning Habit That Destroys Your Productivity — and How to Break It

March 13, 2023 | Renée Fishman

This simple morning habit is the most common destroyer of your productivity — with consequences that can last beyond the day.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: ADHD, cognitive bandwidth, decision fatigue, decisions, executive function, habits, morning rituals, morning routines, productivity, rituals, sleep, snooze, wake up

The Curse of Optionality

December 18, 2018 | Renée Fishman

It seems that everyone wants more choices in life, even though studies show that increasing the number of options decreases the likelihood that a person will make a choice and increases any “buyers remorse.”

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: choice, decision fatigue, decisions, options

Why You Take the Same Route Every Day

August 23, 2018 | Renée Fishman

When there are myriad ways to get from point A to point B, why do we default to the same route each time?

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: automaticity, covnitive load, decision fatigue, habits, human behavior

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