Building habits is essential to creating a system of living that ensures that you’re continually moving in the direction of achieving your goals.

Building and tracking streaks is one of the best methods of enforcing the habits you want to be strengthening and embedding in your daily life.

With each successive day add to your streak, the harder the task becomes to avoid for fear of breaking your hard-earned streak.

Whether it’s getting your 10,000 steps in, writing a daily blog post, keeping your daily or monthly spending under a certain threshold, the longer you’ve maintained your streak of “good behaviour” the more pressure you’ll feel to continue, and soon, a habit is established.

Every so often, however, it’s worth breaking the streak.

By breaking the streak intentionally, even for one day, you can take a moment to reflect on the practice and reassess whether it’s actually something that is serving you and moving you closer to where you want to go. If not, decide whether or not it’s worth continuing or if your mental power is best used elsewhere.

If the practice is still serving you, you’ll likely be reinvigorated to get back to it and start building a new streak.

If not, find a practice that is more aligned with your destination and start streaking your way there.

Streaks are powerful tools to help build and enforce habits, but if you’re not careful, you can end up continuing with a practice for no other reason than to maintain and extend your streak.

Break the streak. Reassess. Then recommit or recalibrate.

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