There is no scientific number of days to create a habit, Even the definition of a habit is fuzzy. It’s not boolean, rather a habit is something that can be strengthened to work more reliably and across more diverse situations.
However, 21 days is a common goal for most people. So we’ve packaged up our best advice for habit formation into day by day tips.
At the end of the plan, you’ll get a chance to graduate or, if you want to keep strengthening your habit, go through it again. The graduation moment gives you a target and also an end date so that you can try something new.
One other area to bring up in this release is philosophical: every Lift user is a coach.
The Lift users form both the hardest working and most supportive community of any app. That support is a form of coaching, and I want to call out the three main ways that you can coach other Lift users (one of these is new in this release):
#1. Give people props. This is the lowest-barrier coaching. Just cheer people on.
#2. In this release, we’ve added a discussions section for each step in a plan. This is a place for you to leave tips or answer other people’s questions. Look for the discussions feature on the check-in screen (with the big button).
#3. You can create a day-by-day coaching plan for other people in the Lift community. There’s more info on our blog: https://blog.coach.me
