SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “I let the banking app’s notification badge climb into the hundreds”, including the private rule underneath it: As long as the badge never shows a number you can actually read, you can tell yourself the total behind it is still an abstraction — something you haven't technically ignored, just haven't looked at yet.
QUIET
“I let the banking app’s notification badge climb into the hundreds” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “The badge is a doorbell, not a verdict. I can answer it without answering for everything behind it at once.”
PRESENT
“I let the banking app’s notification badge climb into the hundreds” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “One tap, one real number, today — then I put the phone face down and I'm done for now.”
ACTIVE
“I let the banking app’s notification badge climb into the hundreds” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Move the banking app back to your home screen, open it once to read the exact number under the badge, jot it in a private note, then close the app.
DOMINANT
Right now, “I let the banking app’s notification badge climb into the hundreds” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Move the banking app back to your home screen, open it once to read the exact number under the badge, jot it in a private note, then close the app.