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Idea: The Stoplight Method. Red, orange, and green.

Your days would be either green (having a surplus of points), orange (being at an equilibrium - exactly 0 points: the points between green and red is equal), and lastly, red (having less green points than red points).

You would assign point-values (1/10) to a specific amount of tasks that you complete daily. You would base these points on the weight of the habit.

You would give the negative (red) habits a significantly larger point-allocation than the green ones, to encourage you to not perform that habit or action.

If you have a habit, and therefore you would also have the anti of that habit, you would assign a 1-5x multiplier to the points of the non-anti habit and assign that to the anti habit, so that the points of the anti habit would be disproportionally larger than the original habit, making it so that you would have to be more consistent with the positive habit if you want to perform well (have a green day).

The exact meaning of doing this is based on the idea from the X chain method. Instead of chaining x'es on your calender, however, you would instead aim to have more green days in a (week, month, year) than red days. This assures that you improve daily.

You would assign the points yourself based on the importance of the habit or action. If you are trying to break a habit, you would assign it more points than if you want to implement it, and you would assign a task less points if it's not too important.

The user would be encouraged to quantify their measures as much as possible, instead of using vague markers (read in a book). Here, a better option is 'read in a book for 30 minutes', because that is repeatable multiple times daily, rather than the other vague example. You would then be encouraged to increase the number of repetitions performed of the task, and that would increase your green (or red) points.

I use Notion.so, and therefore I would use the inline table feature to calculate the sum of my stoplight-points. When, at the end of the day, I know that my day is either green, orange, or red, I would assign that value to the 'stoplight' property of the journal entry for that day. By doing that, using notion, you would be able to sort and filter so that you know exactly how many green days you've had, and how many red days. Sorting by week and year is possible by using filters (created date).

It is a great idea to really think about your actions. Measure more intentionally the things you do daily. Think about your habits; which ones you would like to keep, and which ones you would like to remove.

Reward system

For a reward system, there are a few options. In the end, it's up to the user to decide their exact system, but a proposal for three different systems:

You earn points for some positive task. If you want a reward, you would subtract the amount of points that the reward 'costs', and therefore you would have to perform a lot of positive tasks in one day, otherwise the large cost of the reward would make the day red; which is what we're trying to avoid entirely.

Another system is to allow yourself a given reward after a specific amount of concurrent green days. Say you complete a whole week of nothing but green days; you could reward yourself with something small. A month; you could reward yourself with something larger. And so on.

The third option would be to give yourself rewards based on milestones reached. Say you're trying to loose weight. You might set a milestone for 10 kg, which would be half of what you're trying to loose in total. To celebrate that milestone, you could give yourself a reward.

I suppose a fourth option would be to mix and match between these reward-systems.

To your success. Regards, Christian Bager Bach Houmann