Coaching practices for How Do You Form Habits That Stick

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• I keep meaning to start a good new habit
• Every time I commit to a new habit it’s all-or-nothing
• The stuff I do every day without thinking
• Every time I try to get organized I try to overhaul everything at once, and a week later the whole thing has collapsed because it was too much to keep up
• I keep trying to start a good new habit and it never sticks because I’m relying on remembering to do it

Practices that may help

1. Engineer cues for habits you want
   Place obvious, consistent triggers in your environment to start a desired routine.
   The Power of Habit, Made Practical
2. Apply PDSA to a behavior you want to build or break
   Treat habit formation as a series of small experiments rather than a commitment you either keep or blow.
   Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement
3. Habit stacking
   Anchor a new habit to one you already do: “After [current habit], I will [new habit].”
   Atomic Habits, Made Practical
4. Build the capture habit before anything else
   Install one habit at a time — start with ubiquitous capture — before adding other ZTD practices.
   Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
5. Pair a new behavior with an existing conditioned cue
   Attach the new behavior to a cue that already reliably fires, leveraging the existing conditioned association.
   Classical Conditioning and Habit Triggers
6. Find your keystone habit — the one that cascades into others
   Identify a single habit whose consistency seems to lift other behaviors along with it.
   The Habit Loop, Made Practical
7. Focus on keystone habits
   Change one high-leverage habit that cascades into other positive changes.
   The Power of Habit, Made Practical
8. Run one chain at a time to prevent dilution
   Start a second chain only after the first has run for at least 30 days without breaking.
   The Seinfeld Strategy: Don’t Break the Chain
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. 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

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