Why I Built The Pattern Interrupt

Since The Mindful Pattern went live, the most common question I have had is not about the method. It is about the length. Ninety days is a real commitment, and for a lot of people, deciding whether a daily tracking habit is going to stick is easier after thirty days than after ninety.

The Pattern Interrupt is my answer to that. It uses the same core method as The Mindful Pattern, tracking the thought that triggered you, the emotion it produced, and where you felt it in your body, but it asks for a month instead of a season. The weekly review and the monthly pattern review are both still there. There is just one of the monthly reviews instead of three.

I did not want to water the method down to make it shorter. Most reactions happen faster than thought, and thirty days of writing them down is still enough to see the shape of a pattern clearly, often sooner than people expect. What changes is the size of the commitment, not the seriousness of the practice.

If you are new to journalling as a tool rather than a habit, The Pattern Interrupt is probably the easier place to start. If you already know you want to go deeper once the month is up, The Mindful Pattern is waiting for exactly that.