Coaching practices for Reduce Decision Fatigue Habits

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• By late afternoon my brain is fried from a thousand tiny calls
• Every day I end up relitigating whether the habit is even worth it, and on a tired day that little debate wins and I skip
• By the time the day’s real choices show up I’m already worn out from a hundred tiny ones
• The thing I’m trying to cut is just too easy
• By the afternoon I can barely decide what to eat, because all day I’ve been making a hundred tiny calls

Practices that may help

1. Eliminate recurring micro-decisions with standing rules
   Convert repeated low-stakes decisions into rules so willpower isn’t spent on them daily.
   The Not-To-Do List
2. Reduce the whole habit to one rule: don’t break the chain
   Replace a tangle of goals with a single instruction your brain can’t negotiate with.
   Don't Break the Chain: The Streak Method
3. Reduce daily decisions to protect self-control
   Automate recurring choices so effortful self-control is reserved for decisions that actually matter.
   Self-Regulation Failure and Ego Depletion
4. 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
5. Batch low-stakes decisions to reduce decision fatigue
   Group routine decisions into a single weekly slot rather than making each one as it appears.
   Task Batching: Grouping Similar Work to Cut Switching Costs
6. Start with a maximum of three mini habits simultaneously
   More than three mini habits at once means none of them are truly mini — the simplicity is the point.
   Mini Habits, Made Practical
7. Edit your choice environment upstream
   Remove options before the decision moment so the problem never arises.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
8. Set default rules for willpower-intense situations
   A pre-decided rule requires no willpower at the decision point — the decision has already been made.
   Simple Heuristics: Gerd Gigerenzer’s Case for Fast and Frugal Thinking
9. Reduce friction on desired behaviors
   Make the healthy choice two fewer steps than the unhealthy one.
   Nudge Theory, Made Practical
10. 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

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