practicelog A working log of habits, focus, and follow-through — the practices that hold when motivation is gone. By Chirag Singhal. https://self-dev-blog.oriz.in/ 2026-08-11T00:00:00.000Z Chirag Singhal https://oriz.in/about/ whyiswhen@gmail.com Astro Goal-setting that works: pick one, aim it, build the system underneath https://self-dev-blog.oriz.in/blog/goal-setting-that-works/ 2026-08-11T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-11T00:00:00.000Z Chirag Singhal SMART goals and vision boards mostly fail. What works is one goal at a time, a process you can run daily, and a review loop that catches drift before it costs you months. Beating procrastination: it's an emotion problem, not a time problem https://self-dev-blog.oriz.in/blog/beating-procrastination/ 2026-08-02T00:00:00.000Z 2026-08-02T00:00:00.000Z Chirag Singhal You don't procrastinate because you're lazy or bad at scheduling. You avoid the task because it makes you feel something. Fix the feeling and the work starts. Building habits that stick: design the cue, shrink the rep https://self-dev-blog.oriz.in/blog/building-habits-that-stick/ 2026-07-14T00:00:00.000Z 2026-07-14T00:00:00.000Z Chirag Singhal Willpower fades by evening. Habits that last are built from a fixed cue, a rep small enough to be laughable, and a chain you refuse to break twice.