Coaching practices for Reduce Friction Habits

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

• I know exactly what I should do, but every time there’s some little hassle in the way
• The thing I’m trying to cut is just too easy
• There’s this exact little build-up right before I do it
• It’s not that I don’t want to do the thing
• The escape is one tap away and so frictionless that I’m three videos deep before I even realize I caved

Practices that may help

1. Remove one small obstacle at a time
   Eliminate tiny points of friction so the good behavior becomes the path of least resistance.
   Kaizen: Change by Tiny Steps
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. Recognize the premonitory urge — the signal before the signal
   Most repetitive habits are preceded by a distinct physical sensation; learning to feel it gives you the earliest possible intervention point.
   Habit Reversal Training, Made Practical
4. Reduce friction on desired behaviors
   Make the healthy choice two fewer steps than the unhealthy one.
   Nudge Theory, Made Practical
5. Use effort pacts
   Add friction that makes distraction harder to slip into without thinking.
   Indistractable, Made Practical
6. 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
7. Increase friction on high-capture apps
   Add steps between you and the apps most likely to capture you — every additional tap reduces automatic use.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
8. Clarify the personal costs of the habit to sustain motivation
   HRT requires consistent effort — mapping specific ways the habit costs you makes that effort worth maintaining.
   Habit Reversal Training, Made Practical
9. Use relaxation as a foundation for habit awareness
   Baseline arousal reduction lowers the frequency of stress-triggered habits and improves awareness quality.
   Habit Reversal Training, Made Practical
10. Let the habit grow on its own
    Once the tiny habit is automatic, let it expand naturally instead of forcing more.
    Tiny Habits, Made Practical

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