Unfortunately a glider is not much good on its own, it doesn’t have any engine and requires strategic thinking to get off the ground, to generate lift gliders often use hot thermal air currents.

Velocity is built for achieving goals. It has been proven that when a person describes what and how they are going to action their goals, they are much more likely to do it. This means that using velocity to define your goals, intent and the days in which you will do something, you’re already more likely to achieve what you want in life. Furthermore velocity works like a game, in that it wants you to be working towards your goals, continually, if you’re not growing you will lose your progress. In this way your intention is constantly brought to the surface.

So we can use velocity to record our daily victories. Overtime we see a visual chain built up detailing just how far we have come on our journey, we can also attach notes and volumes to provide further insight. This is described in another of James Clears articles, detailing how Jerry Seinfeld would build up a chain of completed days writing jokes, and seeing this chain would motivate him in his goal to become a better comedian.

“After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job is to not break the chain.”

This “Seinfeld approach” is pretty much exactly the tool that velocity aims to provide to its users, so they can see their chain and improve their lives.

Another good strategy to employ in achieving life goals is to stack habits. Two tasks I have set for every workday is to workout and wake up early. These two tasks compliment one another, in that I will wake up early and go to the gym. Habit stacking can be thought of as if i do X then i will do Y. Another example might be to read and meditate every night, after reading the mind is often relaxed in a great place to meditate. Habit stacking essentially allows you to chain habits together such that they’re more efficiently completed.