Coaching practices for Describe Behavior Not Motive
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- 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 keep failing at the same thing and I’ve decided I’m just lazy or weak
- There’s a thing I keep meaning to do and just don’t, and I’ve been beating myself up for not wanting it enough
- I keep telling myself I lack discipline, but the behavior I want to stop doesn’t feel like a choice
- I keep doing this thing I hate myself for afterward, and it makes no sense until I admit it does give me something in the moment
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - Design behavior with the Fogg Behavior Model (B=MAP)
A behavior happens only when Motivation, Ability, and a Prompt arrive at the same moment.
Tiny Habits, Made Practical - Identify the stimulus driving the behavior you want to change
Map the exact cues — environmental, sensory, or social — that reliably precede the target behavior.
Stimulus Control, Made Practical - Map the short-term and long-term consequences of the behavior
List what the behavior actually produced — good and bad, immediate and delayed.
Behavioral Chain Analysis: The DBT Method for Understanding Problem Behaviors - Identify the mistaken goal behind the misbehavior
Dreikurs argued that misbehavior is always purposeful — the child is pursuing belonging or significance through a mistaken strategy.
Natural and Logical Consequences (Rudolf Dreikurs) - 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 - 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 - Ground ethics in love and compassion, not rule compliance
Let care for others — not fear of violation — be the engine of your moral conduct.
The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical - Install a reliable prompt at the right moment
A behavior that lacks a prompt won’t happen regardless of motivation or ability — fix the trigger first.
The Fogg Behavior Model, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Habit Motivation Mapping
Every behavior has a required minimum of motivation × ability; staying above that action line is the design goal.
Understand the action line — the threshold where behavior fires
- Action Line Fogg Model
Every behavior has a required minimum of motivation × ability; staying above that action line is the design goal.
- Bj Fogg Behavior Design
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.
- Bj Fogg Behavior Model
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.
- Fogg Behavior Model
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.
- Fogg Behavior Model Diagnostic
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.
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