Linky. HN discussion. My summary with the negatives flipped:
If you want to change your behavior effectively,
think of a small step,
that doesn’t require willpower every time,
uses the environment for encouragement,
involves a new behavior, not stopping an old one,
is relatively easy to do,
is prompted by an external trigger,
(which shouldn’t be just learning some new information),
is a concrete behavior rather than an abstract goal,
and resolve to adopt it for some fixed period of time, not forever.
Then the behavior change will be easy.
Link: “Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change”
Linky. HN discussion. My summary with the negatives flipped:
If you want to change your behavior effectively,
think of a small step,
that doesn’t require willpower every time,
uses the environment for encouragement,
involves a new behavior, not stopping an old one,
is relatively easy to do,
is prompted by an external trigger,
(which shouldn’t be just learning some new information),
is a concrete behavior rather than an abstract goal,
and resolve to adopt it for some fixed period of time, not forever.
Then the behavior change will be easy.