Track the micro-habits that compound into lasting change.
Habit Tracker & Goal Planner
The Game of Life and How to Play It
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Habit Tracker & Goal Planner for The Game of Life and How to Play It
The Game of Life - 90-Day Habit Tracker
Shinn's teaching only produces results through consistent daily application - not occasional inspiration. 90 days of structured tracking for the habits she identified: spoken affirmations, casting the burden, nonresistance practice, and gratitude.
Inside the Tracker
90 days of practice, visible on one page
Daily check-in grid
90 consecutive days in a single view. Each row is a habit drawn from Shinn’s principles. Each column is a day. A single mark takes five seconds.
Weekly reflection prompt
One question at the end of each week that connects your pattern data to the principle behind it. Not journalling - a single, targeted observation.
30-day milestone markers
The grid marks days 30 and 60 visually. Each is a natural review point - not a restart, but a moment to assess what has shifted and what needs more attention.
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Designed to pin where you will see it daily. The visual presence of a near-complete row is one of the strongest natural motivators available.
The Method
What you measure, you manage - and what you see, you protect
Self-monitoring is one of the most robust behaviour-change mechanisms in the clinical literature. Simply tracking a behaviour - without any other intervention - produces measurable improvement in consistency. This is the Hawthorne effect in practice: awareness changes behaviour. The tracker externalises what was previously invisible.
The visual streak is a second mechanism. A row of marks on a habit grid creates what behavioural economists call sunk-cost motivation - the useful kind, where an unbroken streak becomes worth protecting for its own sake. Visual continuity sustains behaviour past the point where motivation alone would have collapsed.
The 90-day window spans three complete 30-day cycles - enough time to see a genuine pattern change emerge, not just a good week. After 90 days, the habits that have stuck are now default behaviours. The ones that have not reveal where the underlying belief work is still needed - which is where the workbook comes in.
How to Use It
Simple by design
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Print and pin visibly
The tracker only works if you see it every day. Kitchen wall, bathroom mirror, beside the desk - somewhere it is unavoidable. Out of sight is out of practice.
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Mark at the end of the day
Evening marking creates a brief daily review - did I do the thing? - which is itself a form of self-monitoring that reinforces the behaviour you tracked.
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Never miss twice in a row
Missing one day is a data point. Missing two days in a row is the start of a new pattern. The research on habit maintenance consistently shows that the second miss is more destructive than the first. Missing once is human. Missing twice is a decision.
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Use day 30 and day 60 as honest review points
Look at the full pattern, not individual days. Which habits have high consistency? Which have a pattern of misses on specific days or weeks? That pattern is information - it shows you where the belief work still needs to happen.
Worth knowing
This tracks the practice - it does not teach it
The tracker assumes you know what the habits mean and why they matter. If you want the full 30-day guided system that explains the principles, builds the exercises, and takes you through the belief work underneath each habit, that is what the workbook is for. The 30-day workbook is here.
Who This Is For
You'll get the most from this if…
- ✓You love affirmations but suspect you are saying them wrong - and your results confirm it
- ✓You want to understand the psychology behind Shinn's spoken word practice, not just the spiritual claim
- ✓You are navigating a specific challenge - money, love, career - and want targeted affirmations that work
- ✓You feel like you are fighting life rather than working with it, and want to understand the law of nonresistance
- ✓You are drawn to Shinn's warmth and practical faith but want the modern mechanism explained
- ✓You want a daily spoken word practice with real structure, not just phrases to repeat
Complete the Practice
Complete the The Game of Life and How to Play It practice
Quick-Start Cheat Sheets
The core principles across multiple printable pages.
30-Day Challenge Workbook
Build the teaching into 30 days of structured daily practice.
52-Week Daily Affirmation Calendar
52 weeks of daily affirmations - one for every day from May 2026 to April 2027.
Affirmation Card Deck
52 cards to carry the teaching into every part of your day.
The Toolkit
All five products for this work in one discounted bundle. Save 30%.
Annotated Edition
Christie L. Russell's annotated edition with neuroscience and NLP commentary.
About the Work
The Game of Life and How to Play It - New Thought, 1871-1940
Shinn's most famous work, framing life as a game with discoverable rules. She teaches that the spoken word, backed by faith and right action, activates spiritual law to produce tangible results.
The Science Behind It
Shinn's 'power of the spoken word' is not mystical - it's a form of linguistic priming. NLP formalised this as the presupposition principle: the brain treats spoken statements as instructions and organises experience to confirm them. Her affirmations work specifically when structured as already-accomplished facts because the subconscious processes language literally, without the qualifications the conscious mind adds. The 'fearlessness' she emphasised maps to what modern therapy calls acting from the window of tolerance - making decisions from a regulated nervous system rather than from fear or avoidance.
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