Coaching practices for Aar Implementation Intention

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

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

• I have the same realization after every messy episode
• I genuinely mean to do it, but the day swallows it every time and “I’ll get to it” never actually turns into doing it
• I genuinely intend to do the thing
• I keep telling myself I’ll get to it "sometime today" and then the day just dissolves and I never do
• Every request that comes my way I just dump onto a list to deal with later, and now that list is a wall of vague half-things I dread opening

Practices that may help

1. End every AAR with one specific, time-bound next action
   An AAR without a concrete next action produces insight without change.
   After-Action Review: The US Army’s Tool for Continuous Learning
2. Write when, where, and how plans for every behavioral goal
   Specify exactly when, where, and how you will act — not just what you intend to do.
   Action Planning
3. Set if-then implementation intentions for goal behaviors
   Specify when, where, and how you’ll act — not just whether you intend to.
   Hyperbolic Discounting — Why Future You Always Gets the Short End
4. Action Planning
   Action planning — specifying when, where, and how you will execute a goal-directed behavior — is one of the best-supported techniques for closing the intention-behavior gap. Orbell and Sheeran’s research, along with Peter Gollwitzer’s work on implementation intentions, shows that forming specific plans reliably increases behavior over vague intentions alone, with meta-analytic effect sizes in the small-to-medium range.
5. Specify the when and where for every goal action
   "I will do [behavior] at [time] in [location]" — specificity creates an automatic trigger.
   If–Then Planning, Made Practical
6. Capture ideas and commitments in an RPM format
   When a new commitment lands, immediately ask: result, purpose, first MAP action — before adding it to any list.
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
7. Write every Action Step starting with a verb
   An Action Step that begins with a verb is completable; one that doesn’t is usually a wish or a category, not a task.
   The Action Method, Made Practical
8. Committed action: making specific, values-linked behavioral commitments
   Translate a value into a specific, observable action you commit to this week.
   Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
9. Form an if-then plan linking the obstacle to a specific response
   "If [obstacle occurs], then I will [specific action]" — this plan is what converts mental contrasting into behavior change.
   Mental Contrasting and WOOP
10. Automate future-self allocations at a moment of patience
    Set up automatic transfers or pre-blocked time when you’re in a patient state — remove the future-self decision from present-self’s hands.
    Hyperbolic Discounting — Why Future You Always Gets the Short End

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