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Habits. Systems.
A life that actually works.

Ideas to Thrive helps you close the gap between the life you picture and the one your days are quietly building. Practical systems, honest research, zero hustle-bro hype.

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The 60-second diagnostic

Your habits keep dying.
Find out where the body is.

Most habit advice treats every failure the same. In reality there are four distinct patterns, and each one needs a different fix. Five questions, no email required, brutally specific result.

Habit autopsy · v1

Do the math on yourself

Small reps look like nothing. That's the trick.

Every video on the channel comes back to the same quiet math: minutes you barely notice, repeated daily, outgrow almost any burst of motivation. Drag the slider and watch a year assemble itself.

Day 1 of 20260% spent
Daily practice
20MIN / DAY
You, steadyTypical January burst
122
Hours in one year
3.0
Full 40-hour workweeks
20
Books you could finish

20 minutes is invisible on any single day. Pointed at one skill for a year, it outworks most people's January.

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Think In Systems: The Skill Most People Never Learn (Full Course)

The One Habit That Is Changing My Life

How To Build A Life Operating System (Full Course)

Podcast

The same ideas, built for your commute.

Every video also ships as an episode, so the ideas travel with you. Follow the show once and new episodes come to you.

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Tools

Built to be used, never just downloaded.

Each of these was built to answer a question viewers kept asking. Everything runs in any browser, works offline, and takes a few minutes a day to use.

Flagship

Annual Operating System

$49

An app for your phone and computer that runs your whole year of habits, built to hold up on your worst days. Tap Green, Yellow or Red to log your day, and the dashboard draws your momentum, streaks and recovery for you.

  • Installs on iPhone, iPad, Android and computer
  • One-tap daily logging
  • Sunday Setup, Quarter Review and Year Close built in
  • No account, works offline, your data stays on your device
Get AOS See what's inside
30-day program

30-Day Challenge To Rebuild Your Attention Span

$19

A structured 4-week program to rebuild your attention span using peer-reviewed neuroscience instead of willpower. Fill it in any browser or type straight into the editable PDF. No app, no account.

  • Interactive progress-tracking workbook
  • Editable PDF version, type in the fields
  • 12-question self-assessment
  • 4-week structured progression
Get it on Gumroad
Workbook

The Systems Thinking Workbook

$19

All twenty tools from the Think In Systems course, each with a worked example and a prompt for a problem of your own. Print it, or type straight into the fillable PDF.

  • 20 tools across the course's seven parts
  • A worked example for every tool
  • Fillable PDF and print PDF, 31 pages
  • A four-question capstone for one real problem
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