Make the habit smaller.

When a Q1 habit keeps failing, change the habit itself — not the cue or your tracking criteria.

The cue is rarely the problem if you’re consistently blowing it. If you’re failing over and over, it means the action you’re asking yourself to do is too big. You’ve designed a habit that requires too much motivation, energy, or time. Shrinking the behavior is the only reliable fix.

Adjusting the cue is a distraction when the habit itself is the bottleneck. And modifying your tracking criteria is just lying to yourself — you’re redefining “success” so you feel better about not doing the thing. That helps no one.

Instead, ask: what’s the absolute smallest version of this habit that still counts? If you can’t do that, then you truly need to change the cue or environment. But nine times out of ten, the answer is to make the habit embarrassingly easy