Coaching practices for The Now Habit When Starting Out

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• 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
• The stuff I do every day without thinking
• It’s never the doing that stops me, it’s the starting
• I keep meaning to start a good new habit
• The tiny version is working and a few days in it feels so easy that I get impatient and crank it way up

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Habit stacking
   Anchor a new habit to one you already do: “After [current habit], I will [new habit].”
   Atomic Habits, Made Practical
3. The two-minute rule
   Scale a new habit down until it takes two minutes or less to start.
   Atomic Habits, Made Practical
4. Engineer cues for habits you want
   Place obvious, consistent triggers in your environment to start a desired routine.
   The Power of Habit, Made Practical
5. Scale up only after the habit is automatic
   Grow the habit gradually, and only once the micro version runs without effort.
   Micro Habits: Start Absurdly Small
6. Build the capture habit before anything else
   Install one habit at a time — start with ubiquitous capture — before adding other ZTD practices.
   Zen To Done (ZTD), Made Practical
7. Let the micro start pull you into more
   Often you do more than the minimum once you have started — but the minimum is the only requirement.
   Micro Habits: Start Absurdly Small
8. Attach the habit to an anchor moment
   Use an existing routine as the prompt: “After I [anchor], I will [tiny behavior].”
   Tiny Habits, Made Practical
9. 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
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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