The modern workday is noisy, reactive and fragmented. But career success rarely comes from dramatic reinventions. More often it’s the accumulation of small habits – how you start the morning, structure your meetings or close the laptop at night – that shapes both performance and wellbeing. The good news: subtle adjustments can have outsized effects.
Practice one small act of defiance a day
“Most of us default to agreement without realising it,” says Dr Sunita Sah, Cornell professor and national bestselling author of Defy: How To Speak Up When It Matters. “We say, ‘sounds good’, when it doesn’t; ‘I don’t mind’, when we do.”
