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I overthink everything, so I built an app for it. Kithara → systems thinking to simplify your life and focus.

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Joined August 2023
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Your life is not a to-do list. It's a system. Fix the bottleneck, everything moves. Kithara finds it. Mac + Claude. Just opened 50 beta spots: kithara.systems
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Systems thinking ruined me. I can't even make coffee without asking what the real bottleneck is. (It's sleep. It's always sleep.)
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Leverage in life looks like this: One habit. Ten things get easier. Find that habit.
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Most to-do lists are just anxiety written down.
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What's something small that gives you way more energy than it should?
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"I'll do it when things calm down." ^ Things don't calm down. You do.
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If your plan needs a perfect week to work, it won't work.
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sleep → mood → choices → life The chain is short. Start at the left.
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Anxiety loves an open loop. Close one today.
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What's the one thing you'd tell your younger self to stop doing?
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You don't need a new goal. You need a system for your old one.
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Building Kithara because every goal app I tried had the same flaw. They track what you do. Not why it isn't working.
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Your bad habit isn't the problem. It's a solution to a problem you haven't named.
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You don't quit because it isn't working. You quit because you can't see it working yet. I broke down Alex Hormozi's idea on this with a systems map. watch ↓
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What's a habit you dropped that you miss?
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"I'm too old to change." ^ "I've been running the same system for a long time."
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Every problem you have is a loop. Find where it feeds itself. Break it there.
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Me: I'll just check my phone for a second. Also me, 40 minutes later: Why am I reading about medieval farming?
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You're probably not lazy. You learned to quit. Martin Seligman found the difference is one sentence you say after a setback. "It's me, forever" drains your belief that you can. "Just this once" builds it. I mapped the whole loop ↓
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