Habits & Actions

Both habits and actions live on your objectives, but they answer different questions: a habit is something you do repeatedly; an action is something you do once.

Habits

A habit is a recurring behaviour you want to keep doing — "Meditate," "No alcohol," "Read for 20 minutes." You tick it off day by day and build a streak. Habits are a kind of measure, so they show their history and can sit under an objective as a supporting behaviour.

Reach for a habit when success is consistency over time — the point is doing it again and again, not finishing it.

Actions

An action is a one-off task tied to a single objective — "Book the venue," "Email the accountant," "Draft the pitch." It has an open → done lifecycle: you create it, then mark it complete (or cancel it). It's not a streak; it's a to-do that belongs to a goal.

Reach for an action when success is getting one thing done.

Which one?

• Recurring, no end, build a streak → habit.
• Single task, has a finish line → action.
• A specific dated outcome you want to track as achieved (bigger than a task, spanning maybe several goals) → that's a milestone, not an action.

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