A habit system built on 30-day cycles, not streaks.
A method, a weekly newsletter, and a library of 140+ habits sized for a 30-day cycle. Six years of personal practice distilled into something that travels.
In one paragraph.
HabitCycles is the system I’ve been using personally for six years, finally written down. It rejects the streak metaphor — the idea that breaking a habit once erases all progress — and replaces it with a 30-day cycle frame: you commit, you complete a cycle, you reset, you re-evaluate.
The site is part editorial — long-form essays on the method — and part library: 140+ habits with cycle templates, expected friction points, and the reset moves that work when life gets in the way.
The motivation.
Every habit app I’ve tried punishes failure too hard. Miss a day → broken streak → lose interest → uninstall. The pattern is so reliable it’s become a category fixture. The method I’d been quietly running on for years was the opposite: cycles end whether you complete them or not, and resetting is the point.
HabitCycles is partly a writing project, partly a software product, partly an audience-building exercise. Right now it’s the first; the others are downstream.
The features that matter.
The method essays
Long-form pieces on the cycle frame, the reset move, and why streaks fail.
Habit library · 140+
Each habit sized to a 30-day cycle with templates and friction notes.
Weekly newsletter
One Sunday-morning email per week. No drip, no funnel.
Working in public
Iterating the method as I write it. Comments welcome.