Keystone Habits
One habit pulls a dozen others behind it. Find that one and stop white-knuckling the rest.
Grounded in the research on The Power of Habit
The domino habit
A keystone habit is one change that quietly tips a row of dominoes. Charles Duhigg coined the term in The Power of Habit (2012). The move isn't to fix everything at once. It's to find the one habit that, once it sticks, drags the others along with it. Start exercising and you sleep better, eat cleaner, snap at people less. You didn't decide all that. The keystone did it for you.
The Alcoa proof
1987: Paul O'Neill takes over aluminum giant Alcoa. His investor pitch isn't profit. It's worker safety, full stop. Wall Street thought he was nuts. But chasing zero injuries forced better communication, tighter process, real worker buy-in. By the time he retired in 2000, net income was five times higher and Alcoa was one of the safest companies on earth. Safety was the keystone. Everything else followed.