Every payday, do a two-question Receipt Review: what advice failed you, what worked. Keep the answers, and let next month be taught by you.

The thought behind it

The scale is deliberately tiny. Big resolutions collapse, while a single mechanic, installed once, keeps working without you. Under The Honest Mirror the discomfort is the mechanism — you cannot correct a position you refuse to look at. Read it again for “6”. That is the point at which observation turns into a decision.