Real self-care isn’t ‘doing more’. It’s choosing three specific micro-actions and keeping them up over time, instead of trying to transform your whole life in one go.

Some of the most recommended: taking a minute to check in with how you’re feeling, drinking a glass of water when you wake up, or looking away from the screen for a few seconds every hour to rest your eyes and your mind. None of them needs willpower. All of them just need remembering — and that’s what habit stacking solves.

Start today: cross seventeen off your list of twenty resolutions. The three that are left are the ones that will actually happen.