Coaching practices for Activation Energy Habit

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

• Every time I start something new I design the ambitious full version, run out of steam by day three, and quit
• I genuinely want to do the thing
• It’s never the doing that stops me, it’s the starting
• My bad habits run on autopilot but the good one I’m trying to build never feels automatic
• I catch myself already mid-habit

Practices that may help

1. Minimum viable version of the behavior
   Reduce the new behavior to the smallest unit that still tests the hypothesis.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
2. Reduce friction for good behaviors to near zero
   Make the healthy behavior the path of least resistance by removing every avoidable obstacle between you and starting.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
3. The two-minute rule
   Scale a new habit down until it takes two minutes or less to start.
   Atomic Habits, Made Practical
4. Build a craving deliberately to cement a new habit
   Create an anticipatory craving for the reward of a new behavior before the reward arrives.
   The Habit Loop, Made Practical
5. Identify your cue
   Pin down the exact trigger that fires the habit before you can do anything about the habit.
   The Habit Loop, Made Practical
6. Engineer cues for habits you want
   Place obvious, consistent triggers in your environment to start a desired routine.
   The Power of Habit, Made Practical
7. Design your environment to make incidental movement the default
   NEAT is largely unconscious — reduce friction to movement and increase friction to sitting to shift it without willpower.
   NEAT Thermogenesis
8. Let the micro start pull you into more
   Often you do more than the minimum once you have started — but the minimum is the only requirement.
   Micro Habits: Start Absurdly Small
9. Shrink the behavior until it’s tiny
   Scale the habit down to something you can do even on your worst, busiest day.
   Tiny Habits, Made Practical
10. Habit stacking
    Anchor a new habit to one you already do: “After [current habit], I will [new habit].”
    Atomic Habits, Made Practical

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