The words we use, in plain English

Returning to a goal after an interruption without first repaying the days you missed. HeroMode treats the comeback as a skill to practise, not a failure to recover from.

The short, deliberately small quest HeroMode gives you after a missed day, instead of a broken streak. It keeps a real link to your goal and is designed to take minutes, not an evening.

The idea that most people don’t lack discipline; they lack a realistic way back after a slip. Restarting starts to cost more than the task itself.

The loop where one missed day becomes ‘I’ll start again Monday’, and every restart begins from zero. HeroMode is designed to break it.

HeroMode’s eight daily steps: diagnose, declare, act, prove, transform, reflect, return and share. Return is the step most apps never build.

A daily action with a clear finish line, written so you know exactly what to do and when it counts as done. ‘Send the proposal you’ve avoided’ is a quest; ‘work on sales’ is not.

A short record that a quest happened: a photo, screenshot, link, timer or note. It is private by default and exists to build self-trust, not to perform for others.

Your running record of promises kept and comebacks made. Logging an honest miss adds to it rather than counting against you.

A small group of four to seven people with a shared target, grouped by time zone and goal, so the people holding you to it are awake when you are.

HeroMode’s free, application-only founding cohort: one meaningful action a day for fourteen days, with a structured way back whenever life interrupts.

A reduced version of a habit, decided in advance, for busy or low-energy days so the day still counts. Example: a 5 km run normally, a 10-minute walk-jog on a bad day.