The Business Bulletin
Streaking to success! How to create good habits and break bad habits using streaks to gamify your success.
We all have dreams we wish to
would send a message each day to
achieve, personal goals we want to
each other, and it would increment
mean, or unhealthy habits we want
our streak once each day accordingly.
to break. Be it writing that book you have inside of you, or quitting smoking we so often fail. From personal experience, I’ve
What started as fun, quickly became a rather compelling game we didn’t want to break! We have been messaging each other for over 200
lost and gained weight, failed to
days and now wanted to make it to at
complete multiple projects, and
least a year! Because why not?
experienced the frustration of never quite reaching my full potential. How do we get things done and beat this negative spiral? For me, the answer was “streaks”!
What is a streak?
Needless to say, we hit 1500 days in a row before we finally called it quits as we outgrew the platform, BUT therein is the power of the streak. By gamifying the process of communication, and by carrying out a seemingly small and simple task
How I first utilised the “streak” During this process, I wondered if I could take advantage of the streak to complete a book I had been meaning to read. I decided to read one chapter a day for say 25 days. (Let’s say there were 25 chapters, it’s been a long time I can’t remember exactly). I would get up each morning, read the next chapter (which would take approximately 10-15 mins) then I would log it on a spreadsheet, watching the “streak” number go up each increment. We all know how quickly 25 days
Several years ago I discovered the
each day, our friendship blossomed
can go. Within 25 days, I had read
term “streak” whilst using a social
and we as sure as heck didn’t want to
a book I’d been trying to read for 2
media application. My friend and I
see that streak hit zero.
years! I tried the same with the Bible
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