Here’s one possible schedule for an email drip campaign version of the Habits On Purpose workshop. Obviously there are many possible ways you could arrange this, but here’s one possibility that I think would be reasonable:
First Week: Designing the Habit
Rate: Daily
For the first week, we would send one email per day, to introduce all the big ideas of the course. Here they are, in order:
Day 1: How Habits Work (what we know about habits, the 4-part model, brief intro to the habit design template in the worksheet)
Day 2: Designing Cues (introduction to effective cues, part 1 of the worksheet)
Day 3: Designing Routines (intro to effective initial routines, part 2 of the worksheet)
Day 4: Designing Rewards (intro to effective rewards, finish the worksheet, encouraging message on getting started, invitation to share habits with fellow course-takers if we have the capability to do so)
Day 5: Tracking habits (suggested habit tracking apps, my paper tracker, why to track)
First Month: Iterating and Experimenting
Rate: 2 per week after the intro week
Now that all the big ideas have been introduced, back off the frequency while providing deeper dives on some of the topics covered in week 1.
Week 2 email 1: Make it easy. No, even easier than that! (post in Basecamp)
Week 2 email 2: Cues You Can Use (post in Basecamp)
Week 3 email 1: Taking a Habit Inventory (identify and become conscious of existing habits in your life, understand their cue/craving/routine/reward)
Week 3 email 2: Further Reading (of course include Atomic Habits, also other blogs, videos, books that are useful)
Week 4 email 1: Willpower is Unreliable (willpower’s role in establishing habits, why habits are superior to willpower for long-term progress)
Week 4 email 2: Environment Design for habit success (how to set up your world to facilitate good cues and easy routines, and minimize cues for habits you don’t want)
Long Term: Settling the Habit
Rate: once every other week for 4 months
Most habits are ones we want to keep around for a long time. It takes quite a while for them to settle in and just become regular parts of our lives, so after the initial content is presented, the emails serve more as reminders to keep it up than as brand new information; these later posts are also opportunities to include packaged up thoughts and things that participants have shared in earlier weeks.
Type /habit tracker in a blank Coda document or page to bring up the template!
Make your personal health & wellness a priority and increase your energy and productivity. Select two habits to start with, then click Done from your phone to log it for the day (or for a past date). To take it to the next level, try the Office Ninjas
← Click to choose which daily habits do you want to start with
Add a few daily habits to the following list. Then check the ‘Current Focus Area’ box next to the ones you’d like focus on right now. The fewer the goals, the more likely you’ll achieve them!