Atomic Habits · Diagnostic
What's Your Habit System Score?
A 5-question diagnostic based on James Clear's Four Laws
Rate yourself 1 (never) to 5 (always). Total your score at the end to see where your system stands.
I have a specific plan — written as 'I will [behavior] at [time] in [location]' — for the habits I want to build.
Implementation intentions. Research shows people who plan when/where are 2–3× more likely to follow through.
The environment I spend most of my time in makes my good habits obvious and my bad habits invisible.
Environment design. You don't need more discipline — you need better cues.
I've shrunk my key habits so that starting takes less than two minutes.
The Two-Minute Rule. Lower activation energy until starting is trivial; momentum does the rest.
I track my habits somewhere I can see the streak — a calendar, app, or paper grid.
Habit tracking. Immediate visible evidence of progress beats delayed rewards.
When I miss a day, I recover the very next day — I treat one miss as an accident, never two in a row.
The cost of missing once is small. The cost of missing twice is the start of a new identity.
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→ Reread the book. Pick your lowest-scoring law. Make one change this week.