A ten-minute habit looks pointless for a month and genius in a year.

Small daily amounts are invisible on any timescale you can feel. Ten minutes does nothing you can detect in a week, which is why almost everyone abandons it before the math starts working. Compounding is slow at the start and then suddenly obvious, and the boring middle is where people leave. The size matters less than the number of repetitions.

Choose something you could do on your worst day without negotiating. Track only whether you did it, not how well. Set a reminder to look at the streak in three months rather than checking your progress daily.