Non Negotiables · by Juracich
Quit negotiating your future.
Hold yourself accountable.
The things you don’t break — tracked.
Set a rule. Set the window. Mark it at the end of every day. Get the percentage you held the line.
The Premise
Vague resolutions die in February.
Most goals don’t fail because they’re hard. They fail because there’s no daily reckoning. Non Negotiables forces one, on purpose, with no escape hatches.
Binary.
Either you held the line today or you didn’t. There’s no ‘mostly,’ no ‘almost,’ no ‘does this count?’
Time-boxed.
Every rule has a start and an end. Open-ended commitments are wishes. Finite windows are commitments.
Reviewed at 8pm.
You can’t mark today’s box until evening. The day has to actually happen first — no morning self-congratulations.
Honest by design.
There’s a ‘broke it’ button right next to the ‘held it’ button. Looking the other way costs more than facing it.
How it works
Four steps. That’s the whole app.
- 1
Write the rule.
One sentence. Pick a start date and an end date. Add a description if it helps you remember why.
No social media before noon · May 23 → Aug 23 - 2
Add what to block (optional).
Paste a list of sites to keep yourself away from while the rule is active. A Chrome extension (coming soon) will pick them up and enforce them automatically — no willpower required at the moment of weakness.
instagram.com · twitter.com · reddit.com - 3
One nudge a night.
At 8pm, if any rule is still unmarked, you get a single email listing what’s left. No loud daytime stream — one honest reminder, once.
Subject: Non Negotiables (2 unmarked for 2026-05-23) - 4
Mark the day at 8pm.
At 8pm local time, you can finally close the day with Held or Broke. Your score updates: days held divided by days recorded. Watch it move with you for the whole window.
84% · 16 / 19 days
What you can do
Built for the boring, daily middle.
Plenty of apps help you start. This one helps you keep going on day 23, day 47, day 91.
Multiple rules at once
Run a 30-day reading commitment, a 90-day social media fast, and a one-week sugar break in parallel.
Daily log + calendar
Browse your history as a paginated list or a full-month grid. The pattern starts to mean something.
Site blocking
Each rule has its own block list. While the rule is active, the Chrome extension (coming soon) will block those domains.
Nightly reminder email
One email at 8pm listing what’s still unmarked. No flood — one honest nudge before the day ends.
Edit mid-stream
Realize your end date was unrealistic? Shorten it. Want to expand the scope? Edit it. Checks outside the new window get cleaned up.
Honest scoring
The score doesn’t hide your bad days. It includes them. That’s the point.
Set your first rule.
One sentence. One window. Mark it tonight, mark it tomorrow, mark it again the night after. That’s the whole job.