Edition #12: No Zero Days

📌 Here's What's Up:

• ✅ Small Wins Matter.

• ✅ Get Shit Done: Building the No Zero Days habit (even on bad days).

• ✅ Get Better At Work: How tiny progress compounds over time.

• ✅ Featured Morning Routine: Seinfeld’s “Don’t Break the Chain” Method

• ✅ Stoic Reset: Progress over perfection.

• ✅ To-Do List: How to lock in “No Zero Days” this week.

🔥 Motivation: Consistency > Intensity

💡 Takeaway:
Momentum is the key, not perfection. One push-up is better than zero. One paragraph is better than none. If you never hit zero, you don’t lose. Just show up.

⚡ Get Sh*t Done: How to Build No Zero Days Habits

✅ 2-Minute Rule
If it takes less than 2 minutes, you do it immediately.

• Quick Wins: Write one sentence. Do 3 push-ups. Read one page.

• Bonus: Stack it. Start with 2 minutes and let momentum carry you forward.

✅ Visual Tracking: The Chain Method
Why it works: When you see progress, it feels good & you crave more.

• Quick Wins: Use a wall calendar or a habit tracker app.

• The Rule: Never break the chain. Even on bad days, do something.

✅ Minimum Viable Progress (MVP)
Why it works: Even small progress keeps momentum alive.

• Quick Wins: If you don’t have 30 minutes, do 1. If you can’t work out, stretch. If you can’t write, brainstorm.

• The Rule: Progress, not perfection. Every. Single. Day.

💡 The writers who finish books don’t write 5,000 words at a time. They write 200 words a day. Pro athletes? They rarely take a day off. Your brain craves consistency, not intensity.

🚀 Get Better At Work: Small Progress → Big Wins

• 🧠 Tiny actions compound.
  Writing 100 words every morning? That’s almost a 40k-word manuscript by year’s end.

• 📈 Momentum builds confidence.
  Nothing kills doubt faster than visible progress.

• 🔄 Keep the streak alive.
  Your brain is wired for streaks. Log it visually and don’t let the chain break.

📌 Pro Tip:
Think of your workday like a ladder. Each rung you climb is momentum. If you skip a step, you stall. If you don’t start at all, you slide backward.

🏆 Featured Routine: Jerry Seinfeld’s “Don’t Break the Chain”

Jerry didn’t become a legend by waiting for inspiration. He became one by never missing a day.

His method? A calendar and a red marker.

Every day he wrote jokes, he marked an X on the calendar.

The goal was simple: Never break the chain.

🗓️ Visual Motivation: The longer the chain, the harder it is to break.
🖊️ Minimum Viable Progress: He didn’t need to write a perfect set—just one joke was enough.
🎯 Relentless Consistency: The calendar was his scoreboard.

💡 Jerry clearly knew that effort compounds. One joke a day isn’t much, but it’s 365 by year’s end.

The streak is the secret.

🧠 Stoic Reset: Progress Over Perfection

💭 Reflection:
You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to not quit. That’s the streak that matters.

Action Step:
Today, start your streak. One action, no matter how small.

Mark it.

Tomorrow, do it again.

📋 To-Do List: Build Your Frictionless Stack

• ✅ Pick your non-negotiable daily action (workout, write, read, meditate, etc).

• ✅ Apply the 2-Minute Rule - if it’s quick, do it now.

• ✅ Set up a visual tracker (calendar, app, or habit journal).

• ✅ Don’t break the chain.