Coaching practices for The Power of Habit When Starting Out

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

• I keep meaning to start a good new habit
• It’s never the doing that stops me, it’s the starting
• The thing that stops me is just getting started
• Every time I start something new I design the ambitious full version, run out of steam by day three, and quit
• 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. Engineer cues for habits you want
   Place obvious, consistent triggers in your environment to start a desired routine.
   The Power of Habit, Made Practical
2. The two-minute rule
   Scale a new habit down until it takes two minutes or less to start.
   Atomic Habits, Made Practical
3. 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
4. Minimum viable version of the behavior
   Reduce the new behavior to the smallest unit that still tests the hypothesis.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
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. 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
7. Focus on keystone habits
   Change one high-leverage habit that cascades into other positive changes.
   The Power of Habit, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Habit stacking
   Anchor a new habit to one you already do: “After [current habit], I will [new habit].”
   Atomic 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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