One Footprint Isn't a Path
Small Daily Steps That Build Good Habits and Wear Out Bad Ones

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Every evening at ten you find yourself at the kitchen cupboard. You promised yourself you'd stop scrolling, and here you are at midnight. You bought the running shoes, and they're still in the box. You're not weak. You're walking a path.

Across every park lawn there's a muddy shortcut nobody planned, worn by feet taking the short way. Planners call these desire paths, and a "Keep off the grass" sign rarely stops anyone. Your habits work the same way. They're paths worn into your day, and they start at the same spots: the sofa at nine, the car after work, the feeling of being tired, bored or lonely. Willpower is the sign. This book shows you how to change the ground instead.

You'll learn how to:
• Map your real day in one week and find where each habit starts
• Start a new habit with ten steps so small you can do them on your worst Tuesday
• Plan a rainy-day version so bad days don't undo good weeks
• Put low fences at the start of old habits, and plant something better in the gap
• Meet tiredness, boredom and loneliness with what they actually need
• Recover the morning after a slip, so one bad day stays one bad day
• Add toll gates to the apps and stores that pave habits for profit
• Use a move, a new job or retirement to reset your routines

Every chapter ends with Walk It Today, one small thing to try that day. Along the way you'll meet people like Lucy, a nurse who won back four hours a week from her parking-lot scroll, and Harriet, who wrote one sentence a day about her family's dairy farm and ended up with a printed book for her grandchildren.