"THE SECRET TO CHANGING YOUR HABITS:
START INCREDIBLY SMALL."
THE BIGGER A PROJECT SEEMS, THE LESS LIKELY YOU ARE TO DO IT BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE TOO MUCH EFFORT. SO IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FORM BETTER HABITS START REALLY, REALLY SMALL--ONE PUSHUP AT A TIME.
"In many ways, you are your habits. Research shows that nearly half of our actions are habitual. But habit change is a small deal: the tinier your habit, the easier it is to establish. If we're trying get better at big picture stuff--like by getting more productive, creative, or generally awesome--research shows we need to make the change as small as possible.
Habits don't start feeling "automatic" until you've done them for about 66 days straight. And before they're automatic, you have to use willpower--which, like a muscle, can get fatigued--to initiate the task. What's more, the bigger a project seems, the less likely we are to complete it, since it seems like too much effort. What we need to do, then, is to find a strategy that lets us lay the foundation of a productive habit while minimizing the upfront workload. To learn how, let's look at why you should start flossing one tooth."
Read more on [The Huffington Post]
More research on achieving goals/resolutions:
• The Secret to Forming Super Productive Habits
• Just 8% of People Achieve Their New Year's Resolutions. Here's How They Do It.
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Instructor's feedback: The model is working on the honor system where everyone make a promise to abide by the rules. Seems very flimsy at that the moment.
Solutions:
• Adding extra features like users being able to challenge the other person and do the challenge together (as a competition?) - and maybe that way they can monitor each other to see if the other person is really doing the challenge.
• It's mandatory for users to post photo every time they finish a challenge so other users can see that the user is really doing the challenge.
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Other possible names:
• My Seven Days
• Challengely
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