Coaching practices for How to Stop Bad Habits Environment

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• The thing I’m trying to cut is just too easy
• I burn through all my willpower resisting the temptation that’s sitting right in front of me
• I blame myself for being weak, but the truth is the apps and the snack aisle and the feeds are all engineered to hook me, and no amount of willpower outlasts something designed by a team of people to make me keep doing it.
• I genuinely want to do the thing
• I just landed in the new place and I keep telling myself I’ll start the good routines once I’ve settled in and unpacked

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. Add friction to unwanted behaviors
   Inserting even a small obstacle between you and an unwanted behavior meaningfully reduces how often it happens.
   Environment Design for Behavior Change
3. Remove or modify the cue rather than resist the response
   Eliminating or changing the environmental stimulus is more effective than relying on willpower to resist it.
   Stimulus Control, Made Practical
4. Recognize how environment and institutions shape your loops
   Many of your habits are designed by your environment — awareness is the first step to reclaiming agency.
   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. Install target behaviors in the new context from day one
   Begin the desired habit in the new environment before the new context develops its own competing cues.
   The Habit Discontinuity Effect
7. Use environmental context change to weaken existing conditioned habits
   Change your environment to disrupt the conditioned cues that maintain an unwanted habit.
   Classical Conditioning and Habit Triggers
8. 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
9. Map the cue-routine-reward loop
   Break a habit into its three parts before you try to change anything.
   The Power of Habit, Made Practical
10. Shrink the habit until it is guaranteed
    Cut the behavior down until skipping it would be more effort than doing it.
    Micro Habits: Start Absurdly Small

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