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How a Monday helps you start, and so does a birthday.

In 2014 Dai, Milkman and Riis found people prefer to start goals at temporal landmarks: searches for "diet" rose 82 percent at New Year, gym visits 33 percent at the start of a week. Such markers split the old self from the new. So schedule a project's start for a Monday, the first of the month, or right after vacation.

Useful: "Someday" is not a start date; the first of next month is.

Source: doi.org

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