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“People say, ‘Life is for living — not for tracking.’
You can — and should — do both.
TRACK what matters.”
Want better results? Start thinking like a scientist.
Not with lab coats and equations—just two basic question:
“What did I try? Did it work?”
That’s the core message and method behind The Habit Factor’s habit development framework, P.A.R.R.
»That’s also the heart of intentional behavior change.
We said it before:
Behavior change requires behavior change.
Silly? Maybe.
Stupid? Perhaps.
Accurate? Absolutely.
You are the scientist. Your behavior is the experiment.
Change. Collect data. Reassess & Interate.
Plan. Act. Record. & Reassess. = PARR
What behavioral data are you collecting?
P.A.R.R. applies the scientific method to your life.
It’s not a theory. It’s a method. And it works.
🔬 P.A.R.R. = Plan. Act. Record. Reassess.
Plan
Choose a behavior (habit) that supports a goal. “Writing”The Goal is “To write a book.”
Define your Minimum Success Criteria (MSC) — something clear and doable.
Example: Write for 15 minutes or write 1 page.
Pick your Target Days (like M/W/F).
Set the “Bar” low for both of these. NOT EACH DAY. And, not 5 Pages or 50 Minutes. A LOW bar.
Planning to succeed starts with choosing a rhythm you can repeat and a low frequency per week, and MSC.
Act
Do the behavior. Or don’t. Either way, you’re generating feedback.Record
Use 1s and 0s to track your actions:
1 = did it. Achieved the MSC. 0 = didn’t.Add a quick note. You’re collecting behavioral data, not guessing. By adding comments/notes, you affirm your intention and gather data—information about what is working and what is NOT working.
Reassess
After 4 full weeks, review your results.
What worked? What didn’t?
If your execution was 85% or better, raise the bar — update your MSC and/or Target Days/Frequency per Week.
If not, keep the same plan and build consistency.
Automaticity isn’t magic — it’s by design with PARR.
Some people hope their habits become automatic.
Most habit trackers? Unfortunately, they appear to miss the point.
30 days? Where’s the rhythm of the week?
What are the Target Days? Where’s the Minimum Success Criteria?
Where’s the Reassessment?
To build real habit strength, you need more than hope — you need a method.
P.A.R.R. strengthens habits by design, not by chance.
Each 4-week cycle offers the chance to increase both challenge and frequency per week and/or the MSC.
This isn’t guessing.
It’s progressive habit development — measured, adjusted, and repeatable.
GOODBYE “HABIT LOOP”
Ladders, not loops.
The popular “habit loop” is descriptive — it explains how habits behave.
Especially reactive ones.
But it doesn’t do much to help you build new habits.
And, it was developed by studying rodents.
You’re not a rat.
You can choose, plan, track, reflect, and adjust.
Rodents? Not so much.
You can act with intention. You can reassess your efforts.
What other creature on Earth can do that?
P.A.R.R. is built on choice, intention, data, and iteration —
the same principles that drive real progress.
Scientific progress.
Discipline is a habit, skill and trait.
People say, “I’m not disciplined.”
The truth?
NOBODY IS BORN DISCIPLINED.
Discipline emerges from structure.
P.A.R.R. is that structure.
Doesn’t matter if you’re tracking watering your plants.
By tracking consistently, you will develop the ancillary habit of DISCIPLINE.
Why P.A.R.R. works:
It respects your human capacities: choice, intention, reflection
It uses data, not willpower or guesswork
It aligns with the real rhythm of your life
It generates automaticity and strength, one 4-week period at a time
“You are the scientist of your own life. P.A.R.R. is the process to put your personal behavioral experiment in action.”
The final twist (again): Habits do NOT live in a vacuum.
One more time: Habits and skills for that matter, exist within a larger SYSTEM—your Behavior Echo-System™.
Let’s be clear—very CLEAR:
Habits are not systems. And systems are not habits.
Confusing the two muddles the mechanics of behavior change.
There’s an unnamed author who keeps insisting that habits are systems.
They’re not. Not even close.
When it comes to human behavior, habits operate within a larger Behavior OS—an echo-system (not ecosystem—ECHO as in reverberation).
It (behavior) is shaped by two powerful forces: your environment and your thinking—the stories you tell yourself.
This is why the other two books exist. 👇
This is why the Behavior Echo-System™—a pioneering model in its category—serves not only as a diagnostic tool but also as a prescriptive guide for fostering goal-directed behavior.
Keep on trackin’ ✅
~mg
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