Competing Behavior Model: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Competing Behavior Model, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
List what competes with the habit you want
Habits that use the same time or energy as your goal can crowd it out, so name them.
What do you most often do instead of your goal?
Practices that may help
- Use social opportunity — others who make the behavior normal
Position yourself in social contexts where your target behavior is modeled, expected, or easy to perform with others.
The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel - Surface goal conflicts before they undermine each other
Goals that compete for the same time or emotional bandwidth will suppress each other — make the conflict explicit.
Goal Systems Theory: How Goals Work Together (and Against Each Other) - The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel
COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behavior) is a diagnostic framework developed by Michie and colleagues that maps the three conditions any behavior requires: you must be able to do it, have the opportunity to do it, and want to do it. Research supporting COM-B as a systematic intervention framework is largely expert-consensus and observational rather than RCT; its main value is stopping you from applying the wrong lever. - Diagnose which element — motivation, ability, or prompt — is the bottleneck
When a behavior isn’t happening, ask: Is the person motivated enough? Can they do it? Are they being prompted?
The Fogg Behavior Model, Made Practical - Clarify reflective motivation through values and goals
Articulate why the behavior matters to you — in your own words, tied to your own values.
The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel - Engineer your physical environment to create opportunity
Rearrange space, tools, and access so the desired behavior is the path of least resistance.
The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel - Strengthen automatic motivation through cue-response pairings
Build automatic, habitual pulls toward the behavior so it does not compete for conscious motivation each time.
The COM-B Model and Behavior Change Wheel - Redesign your reward schedule so immediate consequences favor long-term goals
Map what’s immediately rewarding about competing behaviors and increase the immediate payoff of the behavior you want.
Hyperbolic Discounting — Why Future You Always Gets the Short End - The Fogg Behavior Model, Made Practical
BJ Fogg’s model states that behavior happens when three elements converge at the same moment: sufficient motivation, sufficient ability, and a prompt. If a behavior isn’t happening, one of these three is the bottleneck — and diagnosing which one tells you exactly what to change. The model is practitioner-developed with strong theoretical grounding; large-scale RCT evidence is limited but the framework is widely used in product design and behavior change programs. - Understand the action line — the threshold where behavior fires
Every behavior has a required minimum of motivation × ability; staying above that action line is the design goal.
The Fogg Behavior Model, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Nobody around me does this thing, so I’m always the odd one out swimming against the room
- Every time I throw myself into one thing I care about, another one I also care about just goes dim and I stop wanting it
- I keep failing at the same thing and I’ve decided I’m just lazy or weak
- I’m chasing this because I feel like I’m supposed to, but if I’m honest I can’t say why it actually matters to me
- I genuinely want to do the thing, but my whole space fights me on it
Related concerns
- Com B Model Capability Opportunity Motivation Behavior Michie 2011
COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behavior) is a diagnostic framework developed by Michie and colleagues that maps the three conditions any behavior requires: you must be able to do it, have the opportunity to do it, and want to do it. Research supporting COM-B as a systematic intervention framework is largely expert-consensus and observational rather than RCT; its main value is stopping you from applying the wrong lever.
- Com B Model Motivation
COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behavior) is a diagnostic framework developed by Michie and colleagues that maps the three conditions any behavior requires: you must be able to do it, have the opportunity to do it, and want to do it. Research supporting COM-B as a systematic intervention framework is largely expert-consensus and observational rather than RCT; its main value is stopping you from applying the wrong lever.
- Com B Model Of Behaviour
COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behavior) is a diagnostic framework developed by Michie and colleagues that maps the three conditions any behavior requires: you must be able to do it, have the opportunity to do it, and want to do it. Research supporting COM-B as a systematic intervention framework is largely expert-consensus and observational rather than RCT; its main value is stopping you from applying the wrong lever.
- Behavior Model
When a behavior isn’t happening, ask: Is the person motivated enough? Can they do it? Are they being prompted?
Diagnose which element — motivation, ability, or prompt — is the bottleneck
- Com B Capability Opportunity Motivation Behavior Michie 2011
COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behavior) is a diagnostic framework developed by Michie and colleagues that maps the three conditions any behavior requires: you must be able to do it, have the opportunity to do it, and want to do it. Research supporting COM-B as a systematic intervention framework is largely expert-consensus and observational rather than RCT; its main value is stopping you from applying the wrong lever.
- Com B Capability Opportunity Motivation Behavior Michie Van Stralen West 2011
COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, Behavior) is a diagnostic framework developed by Michie and colleagues that maps the three conditions any behavior requires: you must be able to do it, have the opportunity to do it, and want to do it. Research supporting COM-B as a systematic intervention framework is largely expert-consensus and observational rather than RCT; its main value is stopping you from applying the wrong lever.
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