Dailies - Lock In

Dailies is a short list you commit to each morning, and the people near you can see it. That is the whole mechanic. Not goals, not a five-year vision — the three or four things you will have done by tonight. You lock it. It is visible. By the end of the day it is obvious whether you did them. We are truest to our decisions when we have bound ourselves to them publicly. Most habit apps are a private argument with yourself, and private arguments are easy to lose. WHAT GOES ON THE LIST Big goals are easy to stall on because they are too big to start. The list is where you break one down into something you can actually finish today — specific, measurable, and due tonight. Drink a glass of water. Stretch for five minutes. Read ten pages. Get outside before noon. The list is meant to change. When something stops being hard, take it off. Water, stretching and getting outside came off my own…