Coaching practices for Why Change is Slow
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ll grind on the same not-quite-working approach for months before adjusting anything, then change five things at once
- Every time I set out to change something, I aim big and then just freeze
- Something took years to erode
- I give a new routine a couple of weeks, see no results, decide it’s not working, and quit
- I always launch a "new me" with five or six changes at once, spread myself paper-thin across all of them, and within two weeks every single one has quietly collapsed because none got enough of me to stick.
Practices that may help
- Run experiments in rapid iteration sprints
Cycle through short tests quickly to compress your learning rate.
Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It - 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 - Respect stock momentum: do not expect fast reversals
A stock that has been depleting for a long time will not refill quickly — plan for the real timeline.
Stocks and Flows - Account for system delays when evaluating progress
Delays between action and result are built into every system — premature abandonment is the most common failure.
Systems Thinking for Personal Productivity - Change one thing, not everything
Concentrate all your behavior-change budget on a single keystone instead of spreading it thin.
Keystone Habits: The Few Changes That Cascade - Map your immunity to change
Find the hidden competing commitments that are holding a desired change in place.
Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical - Estimate switching costs concretely before deciding they’re prohibitive
Write down what switching actually costs in time, money, and effort — most people overestimate it.
Status Quo Bias — Why We Stick with the Default - Work through a decisional balance in the contemplation stage
List the honest pros and cons of changing — and of not changing — to unlock stuck ambivalence.
The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical - Flip the default in the direction you want to move
Restructure your environment so that the desired new behavior is the path of least resistance.
Status Quo Bias — Why We Stick with the Default - Aim for one-percent improvement
Target a tiny, repeatable gain rather than a dramatic overhaul.
Kaizen: Change by Tiny Steps
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- Kaizen Change By Tiny Steps At Work
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- Kaizen Change By Tiny Steps When Burned Out
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- Kaizen Change By Tiny Steps When Starting Out
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