Project Guide:

Your project assignment is to design a sustainable daily habit to accomplish something you have been wanting to do. I will walk you through the following milestones that are essential to creating a habit and making it stick:

1. Identify your new keystone habit
2. Choose an existing anchor habit as your new trigger
3. Choose a reward for completing your habit
4. Choose a reminder
5. State your implementation intentions
6. Make your habit easy to start by identifying your small wins
7. Identify your loopholes and closers
8. Modify your environment
9. Choose a habit tracking approach and tool
10. Select an accountability system
11. Evaluate your results

Resources:

• Class slides PDF
• Habit Loop 2.0 Template PDF: the primary 2-page document used to design your habit, which can be filled out on your computer or printed and filled out by hand
• Coach.me 21-Day Challenge: a free 21-day accountability program to put your newly designed habit into action, using the popular coaching service Coach.me
• Habit Personality Quiz: a quick quiz that indicates what learning and accountability style is best for you
• Habit Personality Types: explanations of the 4 habit personality types, from Gretchen Rubin's blog The Happiness Project