Very useful and a great reminder. I have been using this methodology for awhile now and picked up on great some suggestions to keep building in new micro habits. I could really relate to:
“Imagine weightlifting as stacking up pieces of paper. Every day you lift weights, just pretend like you’re adding a piece of paper to a pile. On the first day, you start with one single piece of paper. After a month of weight lifting, you could have as many as 30 sheets of paper stacked up. After several years of keeping up with weight lifting, you are going to have a serious stack of paper!”
But, from my experience trying to help people form habits, seeing that “stack of paper” is just not possible and they will lose sight when they are really close to it.
Maybe, you could do a follow-up article to help people keep their eye’s on the prize. I’ve grown to love the process and will take something out of it on a daily basis, therefore it’s not a problem for me. But, a lot of people give up on, for example, meditation because they just aren’t getting the results and you only really start to feel them in the long run. Recently, Duolingo’s Growth Marketer was featured in an article and she shared how a few tweaks in how they showed the users progress and kept their streaks alive, improved daily active users.
