Coaching practices for Remove Friction

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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 escape is one tap away and so frictionless that I’m three videos deep before I even realize I caved
• It’s not that I don’t want to do the thing
• The thing I’m trying to cut is just too easy
• I genuinely want to do the thing

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. Use effort pacts
   Add friction that makes distraction harder to slip into without thinking.
   Indistractable, Made Practical
3. Reduce friction on desired behaviors
   Make the healthy choice two fewer steps than the unhealthy one.
   Nudge Theory, Made Practical
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. 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. Add friction to attention-capture apps
   Increase the effort required to open distracting apps so the default path is not the lowest-resistance one.
   The Attention Economy: Reclaiming Your Focus from Systems Designed to Capture It
7. Eliminate
   Ask: what could be removed, simplified, or reduced without losing what makes this valuable?
   SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
8. 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
9. Return to simplicity
   Strip unnecessary complexity from your life and actions — the uncarved block has all possibilities open.
   Wu Wei — the Practice of Effortless Action
10. Trim components to find what you can remove
    Systematically ask which components in your current solution could be removed if another component took over their function.
    TRIZ: Systematic Invention and the Logic of Contradictions

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