I’m telling you straight: don’t subscribe to all posts.
October 4, 2010 
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Creative commons photo of straightjacket (voluntary model).
Dearest habithackers,
As enthusiastic as you might be, please don’t subscribe to all posts. You’ll simply become overwhelmed.
You see, Habithacker’s not like other websites or blogs. We’re designed to be a sequential system of ordering your health, creativity, and nesty life. I want you to do this little-by-little. That’s why you should start out by subscribing to just one stream of the website…not all three.
This is further explained in the START HERE tab.
And that’s why I removed the subscribe button on the front page…it got you every post, (sometimes more than ten per day—horrible!).
If you have subscribed to all the feeds and you are keeping up with it, do email me. I’d like you to take over this website, my life, and the lives of all habithackers reading this website.
Sincerely, Habithacker Herself.
P.S. This post will repeat periodically to help out new subscribers.
Nice try, but it’s too fun this way!
Besides, I really like the way they compliment each other. If something is too much for me to actually do, at least I can think about it so that the next time I am more prepared to do that item.
But so far… you’ve inspired me to try to keep my little table (aka shitspot) cleared off, which helps with *everything.* You also inspired me to actually go to the Thursday night knitting group that I have been driving by every week and saying to myself, “I should really go in there some time.” Because of going there, I met a woman who was a substitute teacher and remembered my son from *four years ago* when he was in the 2nd grade and told me some awesome stories about him… which in turn cheered me up and provided some outside validity to the seemingly thankless job of raising young kids. … … (!)
My long-winded examples are trying to make the point that good habits have a snowball effect and also, they tend to work with each other. Well, so do bad habits for that matter!
I am trying to learn to leave behind some of my perfectionism, so I don’t try to do it all. And, I’m not worried about it or overwhelmed–I’m after progress–that the fact that you are entertaining me as I work on it… well, my hat’s off to you!
So there!
Best, Anna
As I said, come on out to Colorado and manage MY life and website.
Really, I am so happy this is helping you. Personally, I can’t do all three feeds. I do some of each, but have not kept things as well as I wish I had. I put up this post because I heard that some habithackers hadn’t read the START HERE directions and had, instead, just subscribed and I was about to drive them insane with so many postings. I was thinking of taking the subscribe button off the main page….but now hearing that a genius like you is able to keep up, perhaps I’ll leave it and just make the warnings ever so clear.
Anna, you inspire me. You are a much better habithacker than I. So glad you’ve gone to your knitting group. Very cool to hear nice tales about your son.