The Power Of One – Ensuring daily improvement.(blog.andrewvy.com)
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The Power Of One – Ensuring daily improvement.
http://blog.andrewvy.com/the-power-of-one-ensure-improvement/
http://blog.andrewvy.com/the-power-of-one-ensure-improvement/
Even if it was just a matter of looking up the api for one java method, that would still count as my "one thing" for the day.
The habit rapidly took hold, and years later I'm still doing it. After a hard day of programming I'll still spent at least ten minutes working on a side-project, even if it's just reading about a library I may want to use or committing a tiny refactor.
If there's one habit I would encourage people to take up, it's doing 'one small thing' every single day.