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Deadly Habit
If you can't resist to a certain bad habit you can give yourself extra motivation by declaring such a habit Deadly. It means that if you do respective actions, your Avatar in Habitica will die instantly.

Create a +/- Habit for an action you can't resist to and will consider Deadly from now on (e.g. staying up late). To identify the Habit as Deadly you may add an emoji you like to the name of the Habit. Should you want to declare several actions Deadly you can create several Habits, or just have one Deadly Habit with several actions listed in the comment.

Later on whenever you let yourself make an action represented by a Deadly Habit (e.g. stay up late) use Fix Character Values to set your Health to "0,1", then go back to the Tasks list and penalize yourself by hitting "-" on the Deadly Habit. That's it! Your Avatar will die losing level, plus all XP accumulated toward the next level, all of the gold points (GP), and one piece of equipment (the next link will give you more details).

It should be specifically noted that in accordance with the Death mechanics you can't go below level 1 (0 and negative levels). It's not recommended that you use Fix Character Values to walk around this limitation. Death at level 1 will still result in the loss of gold and equipment. However if you feel the need to record how many levels below level 1 you have stacked, try setting up manual counter in the title of or the comment to the Deadly Habit. So when you have level 1 and die, edit the title/comment to increase the counter, later when you go above level 1, "simulate" death and decrease the counter.

Please note that some scientific evidence suggests that your creativity likes to see you dreaming about good things, not avoiding bad things. So whenever you face a decision whether to give up to a Deadly Habit or not, of course first of all you should remember that it's a Deadly Habit. But then, rather than thinking of a punishment of losing a level and gold, take a short moment to visualize your Custom Rewards (e.g. not " if I don't go to bed I'll lose my gold and the Party will see that I'm a looser losing level by level ", but "if I go to bed now, I will be able to go to the cinema and watch a movie as a custom reward I've been accumulating gold for the last days"). The next thing to think about is the link between your strength in resisting to a Deadly Habit and an ideal image of the real life positive consequences (e.g. "I can go to bed now so that I'll wake up fresh and full of energy tomorrow morning ready to do this and this and that. Great!"). That gives your imagination some food for thoughts and you should feel motivated and slightly more creative and committed to tasks later on.

Finally, always take a note of a moment you manage to resist to the Deadly Habit and do press the "+" part of it. Also as it's noted above Custom Rewards are crucial. When you have enough Gold to spend on them, thank yourself for not giving up to Deadly Habits.