I've realized that the real trick to sticking with habits isn't willpower, it's designing the environment around them to be almost laughably easy at first. It's not just about ease, but about making the default action the desired one. Like keeping the floss container right next to my toothbrush – a tiny visual nudge that whispers, "It's right here, silly, why not?" I used to think of "environment design" as some hyper-optimized life hack. Now I see it more like setting up guardrails on a twisty road -- not to force me where to go, but to gently nudge me away from the cliff's edge when I inevitably drift.