Building bulletproof habits doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, it’s impossible just by definition. Habits are built and fortified over time and it takes patience, duration, sustainability. People want or have the idea it’s just a matter of making a decision and following through with will-power.
I think we’ve all been down that road, making a decision, trying to maintain a perfect track record but one mishap or setback and it all comes crashing down. It feels like a failure, a waste of time, we conclude, we don’t have enough will-power or maybe we’re just not good enough to make it happen. And that one setback becomes a defining moment, it’s the impasse, the impossible obstacle, the psychological and emotional monster we cannot defeat. Because we will always be faced with that “mess up” that will ruin the perfect track record, that will “defeat” our will-power. And trying again becomes even more difficult more impossible, because we’ve already been defeated psychologically.
If you want to build bulletproof habits but have been using that kind of method and can never get it to stick. Here’s a different approach…
Snowballing Streaks
Snowballing streaks isn’t about trying to maintain one unbroken, perfect track record. It’s about building up, scaling a progression, forged in the fire, slow-tempered with patience, sustainability and duration. Go from once a week, to twice a week, to thrice a week, four times a week. Snowball the streaks. Or go from from 7 minutes everyday for a week or two, then go to 14 minutes everyday for another few weeks and so on.
It’s isolating each action into its own individualized moment. These individual actions pool into their own group of small streaks that eventually progress into longer streaks. Then all these groups of streaks is what becomes the one-big, bulletproof habit.
This method doesn’t rely on one decision and one perfect track record. This method doesn’t hinge on the success or failure of the strength of our will-power. In fact it’s actually a basis for building and making our will-power more dependable and reliable.
- The Art of Progression
- 80% Rule
- Snowballing Streaks
- Smart Stacking
- Success Reframe
- Strategies for Success
- The Benefits