Coaching practices for I Know Exactly What I Should Do but Every Time There's Some Little Hassle in the Way Gear to Dig Out a Step to Set Up and That Tiny Bit of Friction is Somehow Enough to Stop Me Every Single Time

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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
• I genuinely want to do the thing
• I always blame the lack of time or the circumstances, but honestly something in me keeps stopping me
• The thing that stops me is just getting started
• The whole thing feels so big I can’t even start

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. 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
3. Obstacle — find the inner obstacle in your way
   Identify the personal, internal block that actually stops you — a habit, feeling, or thought.
   WOOP: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan
4. 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
5. Choose the smallest workable next step
   Break committed action down until the next step is small enough to take today, even in a hard moment.
   Committed Action, Made Practical
6. Shrink the step below the fear threshold
   Make the change so small it provokes no resistance — then it actually gets done.
   Kaizen: Change by Tiny Steps
7. Take deliberate, persistent action
   Perception sets you up; action moves you through — start where you are, with what you have.
   The Obstacle Is the Way, in Practice
8. Structure multi-step choices to prevent dropping out mid-process
   Breaking a complex action into sequenced steps with visible progress increases completion.
   Choice Architecture, Made Practical
9. Run fear-setting alongside goal-setting
   Use fear-setting to clear the obstacle, then goal-setting to define the direction.
   Fear-Setting, Made Practical
10. The two-minute rule
    Scale a new habit down until it takes two minutes or less to start.
    Atomic Habits, Made Practical

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