The Power of Half-It

What if your problem isn't that you do things halfway — but that you don't do them halfway every day?

Del A. Tomorrow has half-read forty-three books, followed diets with great enthusiasm until roughly lunchtime, and painted his living-room wall exactly halfway up in a color called Morning Oat. His gym membership has been used one and a half times. (The half is a story.)

Then, with a stuffed nose, he tried to say the word "habit" and it came out "half-it" — and the Institute for Horizontal Studies (located in his bed, co-staffed by a deeply consistent cat) made a breakthrough: small and frequent beats big and heroic.

Behind the jokes is genuinely useful advice about environment design, tiny habits, linking new habits to old ones, identity, and self-compassion after a slip — plus a surprising confession about how this book got written.

A laugh-out-loud gift for starters, non-finishers, and anyone who has ever said "I'll start Monday."