The Broken Streak Script

THREAT ASSESSMENT

“A habit only counts if it's complete and unbroken — one miss voids the whole thing.” This is the abstinence violation effect in gym clothes: all-or-nothing thinking converts one skipped workout into a written-off week, and compulsive tracking sells control while installing fragility.

KNOWN SIGNATURES

• ▸A twenty-minute version of the routine feels like an insult, so zero minutes wins.
• ▸A gap in the tracker feels more like danger than like a Tuesday.
• ▸You explain healthy people with “willpower” — a substance you've decided they have and you lack — so trying feels rigged from the start.

TARGET LIST — ACTIVE INSTANCES

• ▸“If I can't do the full routine, why do any of it”
• ▸“Healthy people have more willpower than me”
• ▸“Tracking everything is the only way I stay in control”
• ▸“My body can take it — I'll fix my health later”

FIELD INTELLIGENCE

PERSONNEL

COUNTERMEASURES

• Half a routine is still a routine. Streaks are for apps; my body counts everything.
• One miss is one data point. Writing off the week is the script's move, not mine.
• Flexible is not the same as out of control. I can loosen the grip and still be fine.