They don’t usually quit.

They restart.

They build a system, execute for several days, miss once, then redesign everything instead of continuing.

I call it the Continuity Collapse Pattern.

The core idea:

Most productivity systems are built for ideal conditions. Real life includes emotional variance and activation cost. When a miss is interpreted as identity failure, restart becomes the default response.

The solution isn’t more motivation. It’s designing systems around return speed instead of streak length.

Full breakdown here:

https://spryexecutiveos.com/continuity-collapse-pattern/