Stop trying to build habits.
You've been at it for years and the advice was never going to work for you. You just didn't know that yet.
If you’re the person who hasn’t showered in three days and has fourteen unread emails from their landlord, keep reading. This isn’t for the person trying to optimize a morning routine they already have.It doesn’t ask you to track anything, follow a routine, or have discipline. It gives you something to do on the days when you can’t do anything.
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Ghost Habits
Most productivity advice assumes you can do anything if you just try hard enough.Ghost Habits assumes you can’t. And builds from there.
You don't need habits or routines. When you crash, because you will, take as long as you need. Without that downtime you won't do anything anyway.
Eight tools that show up when you need them and disappear when you don't. No streak to lose. No system to fail. A way back in every time you stop, because stopping is part of how this works.
Who It’s For:You’ve got ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, or executive dysfunction. Or you suspect you do. Or you just know that the advice everyone else swears by has never once worked for you.You’ve tried the planners, the apps, the habit trackers, the 5 AM routines. You’ve read the books by the guys who wake up at 4:30 and take cold showers and somehow run three companies, and none of it helped. This is the book for after all of that.
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About Dean
I wrote this book because I needed it and it didn’t exist.
This book took a long time to happen. I kept it to myself for years. It took me longer than I wanted, but I got it finished anyway.Most of it was written at my desk with endless cups of espresso and a cafe sounds playlist chattering in the background, both non-negotiable before I can get started writing. It took over a year from the first word to the first finished draft. That felt slow because it had been in my head for years. All the while, Leo (the cat) slept in his grocery store cardboard box and never cared one bit about what I was doing.My coffee table is proof that getting things done is still a challenge. It's only recently that I started decluttering and dropping things off at the recycling center, which probably feels like a much bigger accomplishment to me than it does to most people.Away from the desk, most of my free time goes to hiking day trails, cooking, reality TV, and working through a backlog of true crime podcasts. One of those day hikes last year veered too close to a clothing-optional beach that was definitely not on my trail map.Ghost Habits came out of years of productivity advice that never worked and finally figuring out why. Everything in here is what I found when I stopped trying to fix myself and started working with what I had.