Coaching practices for 90 Day Experiments

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For 90 Day Experiments, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I make these big all-or-nothing resolutions, slip up once in February, decide I’ve blown it, and quit the whole thing
• I’ll grind on the same not-quite-working approach for months before adjusting anything, then change five things at once
• Whenever I try to change something I frame it as forever
• I keep building these big elaborate plans before I ever start, and by the time I’ve poured weeks into one I’m too invested to admit it isn’t working
• I’ve done the weekend-off thing and the week-off thing, but I just white-knuckle and count down till I can have it back

Practices that may help

1. Frame next-year commitments as experiments, not resolutions
   A 90-day experiment is testable and revisable; a resolution is an unmeasured pledge that either holds or breaks.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
2. Run experiments in rapid iteration sprints
   Cycle through short tests quickly to compress your learning rate.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
3. The time-boxed trial
   Run every new behavior as an explicit test with a fixed end date.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
4. Run the smallest test that can answer the question
   Shrink your experiment so the feedback cycle is fast and the cost of being wrong is low.
   Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement
5. Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
   A tiny experiment is a short, bounded test of a new behavior — framed as "try this for one week" rather than "change forever." By removing the identity stakes and lowering the cost of failure, experiments let you collect personal data on what actually works before making any lasting commitment.
6. Execute a full 30-day break from optional technologies
   Remove all optional technologies for exactly 30 days — not a "digital diet" but a complete break to reset your relationship with them.
   The Digital Declutter, Made Practical
7. Quests and time-bound challenges
   Frame a stretch of the habit as a defined quest with a start, an end, and a goal.
   Gamification of Habits
8. Write the hypothesis before you act
   State what you expect the experiment to reveal before it begins.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
9. Frame major decisions as experiments rather than commitments
   An experiment has a built-in review point; a commitment resists revision even when the evidence against it accumulates.
   Goal-Free Living: When Process Beats Destination
10. Apply PDSA to a behavior you want to build or break
    Treat habit formation as a series of small experiments rather than a commitment you either keep or blow.
    Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement

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