Live your life
like a startup.
The daily-wins method is a repeatable system for treating your life like something you can iterate on. Six domains. Eighteen wins. Three journal sessions. Repeated daily. That is the whole product.
- Physical
- Mental
- Learning
- Social
- Productivity
- Creativity
Five moves, repeated.
- 01
Pick your 6 life domains
Physical, mental, learning, social, productivity, creativity. The map is intentionally finite. Most lives fit inside it; the few that don't are usually a single domain renamed.
- 02
Define 3 wins per domain
Eighteen wins total. Each one is small enough to do on a hard day and meaningful enough to compound. Bad wins are vague ("be present"); good wins are observable ("10-min meditation").
- 03
Track wins daily
Binary (done / not done), counter (3 reps of X), timer (15 min of Y), or text input — whichever fits the win. Four input modes because forcing one shape onto every win is the trap most habit apps fall into.
- 04
Reflect in three session types
Morning sets intention. Evening reviews the day. Deep dive (weekly) pattern-matches across the streak. Same three structures every time so the act of writing becomes furniture.
- 05
Watch the streak compound
Streaks are the dashboard. Insights surface patterns from the metadata without anyone (including us) reading your journal. The point is not the streak — the point is that you can see the system working.
Why six, three, three.
Why six domains
Three domains is too coarse — the day collapses into work-rest. Twelve is too many — most people pick the same three to track and ignore the rest. Six is the smallest grid where every life shows up at least once.
Why three wins per domain
More than three and the daily check-in stops being something you do; it becomes something you avoid. Three forces the cut: which three wins, run consistently, would move this domain.
Why three session types
Morning is for intent under fresh attention. Evening is for honest review while the day is still hot. Deep dive (weekly) is the only place pattern-recognition actually works — daily reflection is too noisy.