Glossary: Build Better Habits

Every key term from the course, in plain English. When a lesson says a word you don't know, it lives here.

The Values Filter

Run every decision through your three core values before saying yes. If an opportunity serves none of your three, it costs you the time those values need — so it's a no, no matter how shiny it looks.

The Sensory Audit

A weekly review of what your five senses are absorbing: what you taste, touch, smell, hear, and see. Whatever fills your senses fills your state — the audit finds the leaks.

The Gratitude Loop

Gratitude builds self-belief, self-belief deepens gratitude, and the cycle sustains your habits. Break the loop and motivation has to carry the load alone — which is why it never does.

Core values

Your three non-negotiable words — the qualities you want your life to stand for. Not goals you achieve once, but directions you face every day.

The five pillars

This course's system: values, purpose, process, inputs, and belief. Every habit you ever build will rest on one of these five — most broken habits are missing at least one.

Anchor habit

One small, non-negotiable action that holds the rest of your routine in place. When the day falls apart, the anchor is the one thing you still do.

Trigger

An existing moment in your day that you attach a new habit to. Coffee brewing means three gratitudes. Shoes coming off means phone on the charger.

Input curation

Choosing what enters your senses on purpose — the accounts, sounds, spaces, and conversations you allow in. You curate your feed; curate the rest of your inputs too.

The five daily choices

Thoughts, words, places, habits, people — the five things you choose every day, consciously or not, that shape who you're becoming.

Natural profile

Your default way of operating: Leader (organizes people), Maker (builds things), Creator (imagines things), Guide (develops people). Habits stick faster when they match your profile.

Relapse rule

The agreement you make with yourself before you ever slip: one miss is a data point, two misses is a signal. Never miss twice — and never use a miss as a verdict on who you are.

Intention

A one-line statement of what a part of your day is for. "This morning is for my values." Intentions give routine a reason, which is what turns repetition into ritual.

Negativity block

Any input, person, or pattern that consistently drains your state. Found with the Sensory Audit, handled with boundaries — reduced, replaced, or removed.

Self-belief

The quiet confidence that you can do what you say you'll do. Built by evidence — every kept promise to yourself, no matter how small, is a deposit.