Habit Design
Attaches a new behaviour to an existing trigger and sizes it small enough to survive a bad week.
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Running it, start to finish
- Confirm a habit is the right tool for this.
- Attach the minimum version to an existing daily action.
- Remove the setup friction before day one.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Checks whether a habit is even the right tool, or whether a one-time structural change would do it.
- Sizes the minimum version for the worst day, since the streak matters more than the progress.
- Diagnoses why previous attempts failed, so the new plan differs in that specific respect.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Make the minimum embarrassingly small. Two minutes. The small version exists to protect the streak, and the streak is what makes the real version possible.
- Use an event trigger, not a time. The day moves and a time-based trigger moves with it. An action you already reliably perform does not.
- Never miss twice. One day is noise. Two is the start of stopping, and section 6 exists so that rule is decided before it is needed.
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