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I believe in focusing on only one major improvement at a time and minimizing the effort required to achieve it. My major focus is to develop Keystone Habits using Duhiggs method (From "The Power of Habit"). Keystone Habits are lifestyle changes which when implemented cause secondary improvements. If you are interested in Habit Development, I post quite a bit about this subject in my battle log (link in my signature). Previous KH’s: KH1: Exercise 7 days/wk. Kept every day since 11/17/16 KH2: No M. (Something private) Kept every day since 12/28/16 KH2 was something I had to give up prior to quitting smoking as one feeds upon the other. Although I have been successful in giving up M for well over 30days, it has a high cessation propensity (ease of regression) and I want another month before I create a no smoking KH. However, I am confident enough in quitting M to start another KH which is something else I need to work on. I also included some low effort secondary goals. These are intentionally created to be very easy to keep as my main focus is succeeding at my new Keystone Habit. In addition, I've created a list of some to do items which I will continue to update. Success for the challenge is not based on keeping these, I just wanted a place to remind me of some things I need to do sometime. Keystone Habit Development KH3 - No RR: RR stands for road rage. There are a number of things other drivers do that set me off and I want to control this as it is both dangerous and non-productive. The cue is obviously discourteous driving. The routine reminder will be a powerpoint on my passenger seat reminding me to engage the new routine. The routine will be a deep breathing exercise I utilized many years ago (10 deep breaths while repeating let it go) which I will implement whenever another driver annoys me. The reward will be safer driving on my part plus not getting into negative thought loops. Secondary Goals While I focus on only one large effort change at a time, I do have some very low effort goals as well for this challenge: KH1 - Daily Exercise: Continue to document daily exercise (low effort goal since I have been achieving this since Nov 17, 2016) KH2 – Continue concentration on No M (low effort since I’ve been doing this for one month) Diet - My current wt is 171-172 (it has fluctuated due to my recent cold) but my ideal wt is 165. No nighttime crap at least 2 times/wk. (low effort as I only have to succeed 2days/wk) Salads: In an effort to lose wt, consume 5 salads/wk. (low effort goal as I am already doing this) Inspiration: Read and post something inspiring 1 time/wk (low effort since I recently came across a lot of great articles by James Clear and post a fair amount of this anyway) Budget: Spend 1 min at least 5 days/wk updating my budget which documents expenses (low effort since I only have to spend 1min on it to succeed) VBA: Spend at least 5min 5days/wk learning Visual Basic with Applications (low effort since I only have to spend 5min on it each time and I have been doing this since start of Jan) Things To Do Work on career Update LinkedIn photo Get interview outfit picked out Write answers for targeted interview questions I know will be asked Get new picture taken for progress Start a credit card list - I've been signing up for a lot more credit cards lately just to take the introductory free money offers and I need to start tracking what cards I've taken, what I got, and when to cancel. Back up computer Make a system backup More later

I believe in focusing on only one major improvement at a time and minimizing the effort required to achieve it. My major focus is to develop Keystone Habits using Duhiggs method (From "The Power of Habit"). Keystone Habits are lifestyle changes which when implemented cause secondary improvements. For instance, my Dec challenge was make daily exercise an automated habit. After I started this (Nov 17th), I started eating more salads. If you are interested in Habit Development, I post quite a bit about this subject in my battle log (link in my signature). I also included some low effort secondary goals. These are intentionally created to be very easy to keep as my main focus is succeeding at my new Keystone Habit. In addition, I've created a list of some to do items which I will continue to update. Success for the challenge is not based on keeping these, I just wanted a place to remind me of some things I need to do sometime. Keystone Habit Development KH2 - No M: I am ready to work on KH2 which is to Quit M. I won't discuss what "M" is (no its not meth or any other drug) other than to say that for me it is a prelude to quitting smoking (not part of this challenge) and is more of a psychological addiction. This will be my primary definition of success this challenge. I started KH2 on Dec 27. Success is defined by perfection on keeping this. Secondary Goals While I focus on only one large effort change at a time, I do have some low effort goals as well for this challenge: KH1 - Daily Exercise: Continue to document daily exercise (low effort goal since I have been achieving this since Nov 17, 2016) Diet - My current wt is 179 but my ideal wt is 165. Need to make some small diet modifications. Crap: Replace nighttime crap w/ healthy snack at least 1 time/wk. (low effort as I only have to succeed 1day/wk Salads: In an effort to lose wt, increase salad consumption from 5/wk to 8/wk. (low effort goal as variety in my eating is of low priority to me and I actually like the salads) Inspiration: Read and post something related to habit development on my battle log at least 1 time/wk (low effort since I recently came across a lot of great articles by James Clear and post a fair amount of this anyway) Budget: Spend 1 min at least 5 days/wk updating my budget which documents expenses (low effort since I only have to spend 1min on it to succeed) VBA: Spend at least 5min 5days/wk learning Visual Basic with Applications (low effort since I only have to spend 5min on it each time. It will force me to sit down and look at it which will automatically lead to spending more time on it.) Things To Do These are just some low effort things I want to get done. My success on this challenge is in no way defined by getting these done. Work on career Update LinkedIn account Update photo Update description Get interview outfit picked out Write answers for targeted interview questions I know will be asked Sign up for C++ class Put money in HSA Get current photo so I can see changes as I lose wt Start a credit card list - I've been signing up for a lot more credit cards lately just to take the introductory free money offers and I need to start tracking what cards I've taken, what I got, and when to cancel. Fine tune my budget spreadsheet Add more as I think of new things