Coaching practices for How to Make Good Habits Easy

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

• I keep meaning to start a good new habit
• My new habits only survive on the good days when I’m rested and motivated, then the first hard, exhausting day comes and they collapse
• The things that are good for me all pay off way later, so in the moment they just feel like a chore, and the stuff that feels good right now keeps winning
• My bad habits run on autopilot but the good one I’m trying to build never feels automatic
• I genuinely want to do the thing

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. 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
3. Make it attractive with temptation bundling
   Pair a behavior you should do with one you want to do.
   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. 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
6. Habit stacking
   Anchor a new habit to one you already do: “After [current habit], I will [new habit].”
   Atomic Habits, Made Practical
7. Design the habit to be no-fail even on your worst day
   A habit that can be skipped on hard days will be skipped — the minimum must survive your worst-case day.
   Mini Habits, Made Practical
8. Atomic Habits, Made Practical
   James Clear’s system says behavior change is a system problem, not a willpower problem: make a desired habit obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying — and do the reverse for bad ones. The most load-bearing ideas (implementation intentions, friction reduction, identity-based change) are well supported in the research literature.
9. 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
10. Locate your single highest-leverage habit
    Pick the one behavior whose presence seems to make several other good behaviors easier.
    Keystone Habits: The Few Changes That Cascade

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