Success Threshold

While setting up a new spreadsheet for Tracking Stars in 2025, I’ve decided to keep the “success threshold” low. This is by design.

It turns out that Tiny Habits are easier to incorporate into our daily lives than BIG CHANGES.

“As I accumulated dozens of new habits—mostly tiny ones—they combined to create a transformation. Sustaining all this did not feel hard. Pursuing change in this way felt natural and oddly fun.”

— B.J. Fogg, Tiny Habits

This choice is related to a design decision made when I was working on LEGO Universe. We knew that if it was too difficult for users to create an account, they most likely would choose not to.

Here’s another way to phrase this idea: Make the barrier to entry as low as possible.

The easier it is for us to change a behavior, the more likely we will embrace the change.

While my ultimate goal may be to change the world, I will not wake up tomorrow with the ability to make HUGE CHANGES. Instead, I’m going to do what I can. Big changes start small.

If we make it easy to take a positive step forward, we’re much more likely to risk taking that step. If it’s too hard, we’re going to fall back on old patterns.

So I’m not going to try to set impossible goals. Instead, I’m going to trust that little changes can make a big difference in the long run.