<aside> 🚢 This is the Best Small Habits Built section of The Dickie’s Digest Best Of 2023 Curation.
I originally wanted to create a list of my personal favorite things of 2023—books, podcasts, purchases, habits, lessons, places I visited, etc.
But I thought it would be more fun (and valuable) instead to curate the best recommendations of a wide variety of people, rather than just me.
So below you’ll find links to the 30 most popular small habits built in 2023 I received after polling roughly 375,000 people on X.
Plenty here to get your 2023 off on the right foot!
If you enjoyed these, check out some of the links to the right to share them with a friend or with your audience. And if you have recommendations that I should add, DM me on Twitter and I’ll add it to the list!
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<aside> ⁉️ If you’re a Notion user, you can click on the table below and “duplicate” this page in the top-right-hand corner to bring it into your workspace.
**And you can also download this entire list as a Google Sheet here!**
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<aside> 🚢 Here’s the original tweet where you can find more recommendations!
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https://twitter.com/dickiebush/status/1737286073695326434
https://dickiebush.substack.com/embed
Small Habit Built | Tweet describing the habit |
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Daily Writing | https://x.com/AlinDragu/status/1737286422585807220 |
If it's not a 'HELL YES', it's a 'NO' | https://x.com/TiaGetsSales/status/1737291746944377092 |
Asking ChatGPT | https://x.com/DanielPriestley/status/1737418799219945667 |
Weekly planning | https://x.com/HeyJeffFelten/status/1737451441235591511 |
Spending the mornings with my son | https://x.com/cjfinley7/status/1737299658236391583 |
Writing down the memory I want to remember every day. | https://x.com/jasonstrimpel/status/1737287433442750867 |
If a task I don’t want to do takes less than 5 minutes, I’ll do it as soon as I think about it. | https://x.com/TickerSymbolYOU/status/1737310781010555069 |
Daily Spanish lessons | https://x.com/brianjhammond/status/1737293904150663240 |
Doing one thing a day | https://x.com/neohed/status/1737435097303855300 |
Using Notion As A Second Brain | https://x.com/IgnaxioDluria/status/1737295387520823671 |
Starting each day with 20-30 minutes of exercise | https://x.com/denys_allen/status/1737298620523651280 |
Journaling | https://x.com/Jonasackerman00/status/1737358488207040947 |
Whenever I am reading a book, listening to a podcast or watching a YouTube video, I will write down three takeaways. | https://x.com/joshlancasterj2/status/1737390713376059399 |
Before committing to something asking myself the quick question of “what is the true cost of saying yes to this?” | https://x.com/timjsamson/status/1737301997865574457 |
Delaying coffee by 30-60 minutes each morning | https://x.com/HyperSalesman/status/1737289576715362416 |
Instead of trying to achieve 4 hours of deep work, just do one hour. It’s amazing what I can get done. | https://x.com/hawker_alex/status/1737322190188490925?s=20 |
Write down everything that comes to mind every morning. Just brain-dumping a stream of consciousness on a piece of paper or a note-taking app has dramatically improved my anxiety levels! | https://x.com/ruttgers83/status/1737443699645088200?s=20 |
Immediately putting an idea in writing or a note inside my second brain in Notion. It has become a lifesaver. | https://x.com/nelabsocial/status/1737468338459062481?s=20 |
Focus | https://x.com/porterryan_/status/1737288464360456322 |
Using facewash everyday. | https://x.com/admiralrohan/status/1737509913138790874?s=20 |
Adding creatine to my morning smoothie | https://x.com/trynotsuck/status/1737288099644801193?s=20 |
Starting my day at 5am daily. | https://x.com/TheMajor_eth/status/1737289277111783861?s=20 |
Evening wind down meditation | https://x.com/lineberg/status/1737288256515936635?s=20 |
Taking a cold shower every morning. | https://x.com/GregoryCronie/status/1737385569615818914?s=20 |
Waking up early, drinking lemon water and then going straight into 35 minutes of walking! Simple yet the most efficient energy booster! | https://x.com/natiakourdadze/status/1737424517893362120?s=20 |
Running. Without question. Became a big habit by the end of the year. But the first three months I ran under 10 miles a week. | https://x.com/JeffWri/status/1737614708994429263?s=20 |
Allowing myself to be bored. | https://x.com/_alextheodore/status/1737440360484483395?s=20 |
Water with electrolytes. | https://x.com/DallasLunz/status/1737476491372281872?s=20 |
Making unwavering eye contact with any stranger I'm moderately intimidated by | https://x.com/NoahRyanCo/status/1737526328964837475?s=20 |
Waking up at 5 am, writing 30 minutes a day, gym in the morning, and 8-10k steps every day | https://x.com/rohitmal/status/1737354566872490217?s=20 |