The six pillars
What gets tracked is the intent. How you hit it is yours — twenty pages, a podcast on the drive, or a five-minute summary of a book you were never going to finish. All three keep the same commitment, and the score cannot tell them apart.
Body
Training, sleep, food, movement
You trained. Not walked to the car.
Seven hours or better, most nights.
Mind
Reading, learning, reflection, making things
Twenty minutes of something that leaves you sharper.
Coach Mal suggests A book summary, five minutes
You are on a run here. Keep a short one in your pocket for the days that get away.
Career
The work, the craft, what he is building
A block on the thing that actually moves your life.
Coach Mal suggests Forty-five minutes, phone in another room
Ninety minutes at night has not happened in three weeks. Take forty-five in the morning instead.
Discipline
Attention, environment, vices
You decided where it went. Not a feed.
The one you named at setup. Nobody else sees this.
Money
Spending, saving, knowing the number
You stayed inside what you set for yourself.
Ray C. suggests Logged what I spent
Stop trying to hold a budget you never wrote down. Log it for a month first.
Brotherhood
Family, friends, the men you answer to
A real conversation. Not a reaction to a story.
Eight is the cap, and the cap is the feature. The spreadsheet this came from carries twenty habits, because a row costs a spreadsheet nothing. Twenty taps a day costs a man the habit.
Changing how you keep a commitment does not reset it. The history follows the intent, not the wording, so a man who moves from twenty pages to a podcast keeps his streak.