Coaching practices for I Do the Thing I'm Trying to Cut Back on Everywhere at My Desk on the Couch in Bed Walking Around So There's Nowhere That Isn't a Trigger and it Feels Impossible to Avoid Because Every Place I Go Sets it Off

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

• I do the thing I’m trying to cut back on everywhere
• I’ve been trying to dodge the whole trigger
• The thing I’m trying to cut is just too easy
• I burn through all my willpower resisting the temptation that’s sitting right in front of me
• There’s one trigger I can’t avoid

Practices that may help

1. Restrict the behavior to a specific context only
   Allow the behavior only in one designated place or time, reducing the number of stimuli that trigger it.
   Stimulus Control, Made Practical
2. Fire the new routine on the original cue
   Leave the trigger in place and attach the new behavior to it, every time.
   Habit Substitution: Swap the Routine, Keep the Reward
3. 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
4. Remove or modify the cue rather than resist the response
   Eliminating or changing the environmental stimulus is more effective than relying on willpower to resist it.
   Stimulus Control, Made Practical
5. Counter-condition an unwanted cue-response pair
   Pair the cue that triggers an unwanted response with something incompatible until the old association weakens.
   Classical Conditioning and Habit Triggers
6. Remove the option entirely
   Delete the temptation from your environment so resisting it is never required.
   Precommitment Devices (Ulysses Contracts)
7. Identify the stimulus driving the behavior you want to change
   Map the exact cues — environmental, sensory, or social — that reliably precede the target behavior.
   Stimulus Control, Made Practical
8. Identify your cue
   Pin down the exact trigger that fires the habit before you can do anything about the habit.
   The Habit Loop, Made Practical
9. Reduce cues for competing behaviors during focused periods
   Your focus is partly controlled by what stimuli are in your environment — reducing competing cues protects target behaviors.
   Stimulus Control, Made Practical
10. Map the cue-routine-reward loop
    Break a habit into its three parts before you try to change anything.
    The Power of Habit, Made Practical

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