Starting, even in a small way, also brings your mind into reality, and this is

important. Before you take action, your mind can only imagine what a particular
behavior would be like. My initial projection of a 30 minute workout was like
scaling Mount Everest. It was wrong. When it comes to activities that require
physical or mental effort, it's extremely common to overestimate how difficult
they are. After I completed my 30 minute workout from force-starting with one
push-up, I realized how absurd my initial perceived difficulty was.

Result with mini habits: very little ego depletion (even as you continue beyond
your original target). The reason starting is the hardest part is because it carries
the brunt of the weight of the commitment. Once we start, we feel as if we need
to finish our original intention to count it as a success. This is why we tend not to
start a project that intimidates us. We’d rather not start if we won’t finish. This is
why mini habits are so easy. The total intention is so small, there's no risk of
quitting too early. By starting small and entering the reality of doing the work,
your mind will see that one small step is not as difficult as it first seemed, and
that taking the next step isn’t difficult either.

Negative Affect
Negative affect simply means the experience of unpleasant feelings; it clearly
played a role in the chocolate and radish study. Participants were tempted by the
sight and smell of chocolate and were given the less desirable radishes. Being
tempted with chocolate only to be denied even a taste was a very negative
experience, perhaps more than we'd think (imagine someone presenting you with
cookies and then withholding them. Ack!). As mini habits are for adding good
things, negative affect is less relevant unless your action is directly replacing
another pleasure. Eating radishes alone won't deplete willpower, for example,
but when juxtaposed against chocolatey goodness, you bet they will!

Result with mini habits: typically no ego depletion. Even if you're replacing a
pleasure with a mini habit, the commitment is so small that you won’t feel
negative affect from it. More often, you’ll be replacing time-wasting behaviors
with beneficial ones, which induces a positive feeling.

Subjective Fatigue
This is an interesting one, isn't it? It doesn't say fatigue, it says subjective fatigue,