How to set systems instead of goals

Set habit goals, not outcome goals. 

That's my forgotten daily mantra. 

No wonder new subscribers rate fall.

Let me amend my challenge targets. 

In The Power of Habit, author Charles Duhigg explains the 3 steps required for a habit to be formed. 

• Cue: A trigger that initiates the habit 
• Routine: The action you take (your habit) 
• Reward: The benefit you get from taking the action.

First, start by actually scheduling your habit cue.

Next, create “if-then” statements for your day. 

https://www.mindmeister.com/blog/stop-setting-goals-start-building-habits/

1. When forming a habit, here’s what I suggest: Make the first 30 days a concentrated goal, when you try to make the behavior an ingrained habit. Review it daily, and make sure your focus stays on this habit each day. 
2. After that initial period, during the next 30 days, review the goal every week (instead of daily), your weekly review. If there’s a change in your life that disrupts the habit, go back to the previous level, when you require more focus and energy to make it a habit again. If all is going well, however, just celebrate your continued success and review it next week. 
3. After that, review it once a month or so to make sure you’re still on track. This could go on indefinitely unless you think it’s such an ingrained habit that you won’t need to review it anymore. I would suggest revisiting it now and then, though, just to make sure. If, however, you have problems with the habit, back up to one of the previous two levels.

https://zenhabits.net/turning-habits-into-goals/

 In Atomic Habits, I recommend using the Two-Minute Rule, which suggests you scale your habits down until they take two minutes or less to perform. You can track whatever habits you want in your habit tracker, but I recommend starting with these super small habits to make sure that you are at least showing up in a small way each day. I’ll share some examples below and break them out by daily, weekly, and monthly habits.

https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker

Is there a difference between a habit and a task?

Habit vs task.

Both habit and routine refer to regular and repeated actions in our lives. A habit is an action we do often in a regular and repeated way. Routine is a regular way of doing things in a particular order. The main difference between habit and routine is that habit is recurrent with little or no conscious thought whereas routine requires a high degree of intention and effort.

https://jesusgilhernandez.com/2016/12/22/habits-vs-routines-there-is-a-difference/

~ Adrian Lee