Coaching practices for Obstacle Bad Habit

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

• The thing I’m trying to cut is just too easy
• I keep doing this thing I swear I’ll stop, and I genuinely can’t say what sets it off or what I’m even getting out of it
• I always blame the lack of time or the circumstances, but honestly something in me keeps stopping me
• I’ve been trying to dodge the whole trigger
• My bad habits run on autopilot but the good one I’m trying to build never feels automatic

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. Obstacle — find the inner obstacle in your way
   Identify the personal, internal block that actually stops you — a habit, feeling, or thought.
   WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan
4. Fire the new routine on the original cue
   Leave the trigger in place and attach the new behavior to it, every time.
   Habit Substitution: Swap the Routine, Keep the Reward
5. 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
6. Weekly hindrance-pattern review
   Track which hindrances appear most in your practice to identify life-condition causes, not just in-session antidotes.
   The Five Hindrances: Diagnosing and Working with Meditation Obstacles
7. Train in the three difficulties
   Notice the habitual pattern, decide to interrupt it, and then work on making the interruption automatic.
   Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training
8. 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
9. Keep the cue and reward, swap the routine
   Duhigg’s “golden rule”: change a habit by inserting a new routine between the same cue and reward.
   The Power of Habit, Made Practical
10. 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

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