Coaching practices for Environment Design for Behavior Change After a Setback

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• I’m right in the middle of a big upheaval
• By the end of the day, worn out and decided-out, I default to the worst option every single time
• I keep sliding back toward whatever the people around me do, and right now nobody in my circle does the thing I’m trying to build
• I’ll fully intend to do something and then just forget it exists until the day’s over
• I genuinely want to do the thing, but my whole space fights me on it

Practices that may help

1. Environment Design for Behavior Change
   Environment design uses the well-documented finding that behavior tracks context more than intention: placing healthy options visibly, removing cues for unwanted behaviors, and reducing friction for good ones changes what people do without relying on willpower. The evidence for context effects on behavior is strong; specific design prescriptions vary in how well they have been tested.
2. Use a life transition to break old environment-behavior links
   Major context changes (a move, a new job) create a rare window where old habits are disrupted and new ones are easier to form.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
3. Change the default option in your environment to the healthy choice
   Restructure defaults so the healthy behavior happens unless you actively opt out.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
4. Engineer your social environment to support the behaviors you want
   The people around you are the most powerful environmental determinant of behavior — choose and structure social exposure intentionally.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
5. Make cues for healthy behaviors obvious and visible
   Put the cue for the behavior you want in your direct field of view at the moment you need to act.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
6. 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
7. 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
8. Design the experiment as an environmental probe
   Test one specific context change rather than your willpower.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
9. Apply the experiential processes early, behavioral ones later
   Use consciousness-raising and emotional arousal early; counter-conditioning and stimulus control after you commit.
   The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical
10. Modify antecedents to trigger behavior before it depends on motivation
    Change the cues that precede a behavior to make it more or less likely to occur.
    Operant Conditioning and Schedules of Reinforcement

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