SKILL BUILDING 341. Qualify Quality Days Create a list of five things you’d like to do every day. If you do at least three of them, consider it a Quality Day. If you do all five, mark it as a Perfect Day. Keep track of the results and review monthly. Make changes based on what you do easily and what is harder. One crucial mindset to have: the goal is Quality Days, not 1 Perfect Days. Your list of 5 should be so challenging that it’s difficult to get a Perfect Day, but manageable to achieve 3 of 5. My five goals from last year: (Total # of Quality Days: 364) 1. Don’t hit snooze. (Days Completed: 232) 2. Do one Humor That Works task. (Days Completed: 322) 3. Do at least 20 minutes of Exercise. (Days Completed: 274) 4. Eat at least 2 fruits or vegetables. (Days Completed: 323) 5. Do something solely for fun. (Days Completed: 363) 1 In 2010, I had a goal of not hitting snooze. Sadly, I failed that goal, a lot. What’s worse was any day I hit snooze, I lost motivation for the rest of the day (“well, I already failed my goal for the day, why do anything else”). In 2011, I came up with Quality Days. If I had 5 goals to shoot for, but only hit 3, I’d still consider it a success. So even if I hit snooze in the morning, there were 4 other habits I could do and still feel like I had a good day. This one change has led to the biggest improvement in me establishing new habits. 177