Productivity · ~3 minutes
Whether a habit lasts has less to do with willpower than with design. Name the habit you're building and rate how you've set it up — this scores it across the five factors research ties to habit formation, and shows you the one change likely to matter most.
Rate how much you agree with each statement about how you've set this habit up, from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Answer for how things really are, not how you'd like them to be. completed report snapshots are saved locally in My AurorIQ.
Your habit
A design check, not a prophecy. This scores how you've set the habit up, not your willpower or worth — which is the point, because design is the part you can change. Even a well-built habit takes time: research found a median around 66 days to automaticity, but anywhere from about 18 to 250+. Good design shortens the odds; consistency does the rest.
About this instrument
How well your habit is set up across five factors research links to formation: a consistent cue, low friction, frequent repetition, an immediate reward, and fit with your identity.
Four statements per factor, half worded toward weak setups and reverse-scored, so simply agreeing with everything won't inflate your result. Scores are normalized per factor and averaged.
An overall design-strength score and band, a breakdown across the five factors, and specific fixes for your two weakest — the levers likely to help most for the least effort.
It scores design, not destiny. Self-report reflects your read of your own setup, and formation still takes time and repetition. It's a mirror and a checklist, not a prediction or a guarantee.
Questions
How well a habit you're building is designed to stick, across five factors research links to habit formation: a consistent cue, low friction, frequent repetition, an immediate reward, and fit with your identity. It scores your setup, not your willpower — which is the part you can actually change.
There's no magic number. A well-known study found a median of about 66 days to automaticity, but the range was enormous — from roughly 18 days to over 250, depending on the habit and person. Good design shortens the odds and the struggle; it doesn't put a fixed date on it.
A high score means your answers match the tool’s product-defined design criteria. It is not a measured probability that a habit will persist. Use the prompts to choose an adjustment and observe what happens.
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Method & limits
The Habit Analyzer scores five parts of a behavior setup: cue clarity, ease/friction, frequency, immediate reward, and fit with your environment or identity. Each dimension contains four statements rated from 1 to 5. Statements describing a weak setup are reverse-scored, so agreeing with them lowers the relevant dimension rather than inflating it.
Each dimension is converted to a 0–100 internal score, and the overall band is the mean of the five dimensions. These percentages are not population percentiles and do not measure willpower, morality, or personal worth. They describe how supportive the reported setup is according to the rules represented in this questionnaire.
The most useful output is the weakest setup dimension and its suggested adjustment. Real behavior also depends on health, obligations, resources, stress, and environment, so the score should be used to redesign a routine—not to judge yourself.
Interpretation standard: this tool is educational and planning-oriented. Its internal percentages, bands, or observations are not clinical measures or representative population percentiles.
Go deeper
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Continue your profilePick one weak part of your plan: the cue, the action or the environment. Make the action small enough to repeat and choose a clear cue. Observe what happens for a week before changing several things at once.
Try Time AuditCompare all assessmentsThis is an educational task or self-assessment, not a diagnosis. Read the instructions above for the format and approximate time. Scores describe this task or your reported preferences; research on the underlying concept does not validate this implementation.
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The cited habit-formation study examined repeated behavior in stable contexts. It did not validate AurorIQ’s five-factor index or predict the chance that your habit will persist.
