How HiyaMojo works

How you play

Just for a moment, imagine who you want to be. The things you want to do that feel too big to start. Now decide on what you could do today, no matter how small, to take you in that direction.

1. 01

   Wake up to a map, not a maze.

   Take your first steps here, and HiyaMojo will lay them out for you each day. The target for a good day is closer than you think. Your bronze medal — the lowest target — is enough. Earn it daily, and you end the day closer to what you imagined, even if you do nothing else. Tell us who you want to be and what you want to do. We'll handle the rest.

2. 02

   Play big. Play small. Both count.

   You've set up your habits and to-dos. What do you have the time and energy to do next — a quick win or a big swing? Whether you want to beat yesterday, keep a streak alive, or push for silver or gold — it's up to you. Whichever way you play, hit your bronze target every day — that's a day you can feel good about. You've banked Mojo for a guilt-free rest day or to skip a habit later.

The science behind it

We've read the papers and the books so that you don't have to. Decades of peer-reviewed research. You just need to turn up and play.

1. 01

   You become what you repeat.

   Identity isn't built by declaring it. It's built by the small thing you do today, then again tomorrow, then again next week. Every habit you set up here is a vote for who you want to be — and votes add up.

   • Lally, van Jaarsveld, Potts & Wardle (2010), European Journal of Social Psychology
   • Wood, Quinn & Kashy (2002), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
   • Markus & Nurius (1986), American Psychologist
2. 02

   Your targets. Quietly rising.

   Bronze, Silver, and Gold are personalised — calculated from your tasks and how you're actually doing, not from someone else's life. As you find your rhythm, HiyaMojo gently nudges them up without making a big deal of it. Your first 7 days are calibration, not graduation.

   • Csikszentmihalyi (1990), Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Chapter 3
   • Locke & Latham (2002), American Psychologist
3. 03

   Bronze medals stack up.

   The smallest medal is still a step forward — every Bronze gets you closer to who you want to be. You don't need Silver or Gold to make progress. Bronze every day is enough to take you the whole way.

   • Weick (1984), American Psychologist
   • Bandura (1977), Psychological Review
   • Amabile & Kramer (2011), The Progress Principle, Chapter 4
4. 04

   You decide what's hard.

   Hard isn't only time. Hard can be the mental block, the avoidance, the thing you've been putting off all week. Habit or one-off task — you rate effort yourself on a five-dot slider, and the reward scales to what it cost you.

   • Ryan & Deci (2000), American Psychologist
   • Adams (1963), Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
5. 05

   Neglected habits get louder.

   Skip a habit for a few days and HiyaMojo quietly raises the reward for getting back to it. The hardest part of any habit isn't doing it — it's returning to it once you've fallen off. The longer you've been gone, the bigger the welcome back.

   • Schultz, Dayan & Montague (1997), Science
   • Berridge & Robinson (2003), Trends in Neurosciences
6. 06

   Bank your effort.

   Hit Bronze — habits or to-dos — and you earn Mojo. Consistency banked for the days life gets in the way. Spend it on a planned break, or use it to skip a task guilt-free when you just can't. Run out, and you can borrow against your future self, then rebuild with a 3-day Comeback Challenge.

   • Heath & Soll (1996), Journal of Consumer Research
   • Sonnentag (2003), Journal of Applied Psychology
   • Thaler & Shefrin (1981), Journal of Political Economy
   • Dai, Milkman & Riis (2014), Management Science
7. 07

   Streaks that don't stress you.

   Loss aversion is a real lever — and most apps pull it too hard. We don't. Your earned Mojo protects your streaks when life gets in the way or rest is the right call. The lever works. We've chosen not to weaponise it because that works better.

   • Kahneman & Tversky (1979), Econometrica
   • Kahneman (2011), Thinking, Fast and Slow, Chapter 26
   • Reis, Sheldon, Gable, Roscoe & Ryan (2000), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
8. 08

   Things you didn't know about yourself.

   HiyaMojo watches your data for patterns you'd miss — like noticing your points dip after a missed meditation, or that you tend to Read on the days you Exercise. Some will be interesting. Some will change how you see things. Either way, conversation, not nag.

   • Loewenstein (1994), Psychological Bulletin
   • Berlyne (1966), Science

Key terms

Points

The score you earn for completing a task, scaled to the effort you assigned it (1 to 5). Points accumulate through the day toward your medal targets.

Daily targets (Bronze, Silver, Gold)

Three daily point goals calculated from your own recent activity. Bronze is your achievable minimum; Silver and Gold reward stronger days. A New Record bar tracks your personal best.

Mojo

HiyaMojo's XP currency. You earn it by hitting your daily Bronze target and spend it to rest without breaking your streaks.

Streak

The number of consecutive days you keep going. HiyaMojo tracks an overall streak plus a streak for every habit and every tag.

Increasing reward

When a habit goes uncompleted for a while, the points it is worth quietly rise — making it easier to justify coming back.

Rest

Spending Mojo to take a planned break. Your streaks freeze and stay protected while you rest, then resume when you return.