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Change Your Behaviours & Habits
Change Your Behaviours & Habits
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Overview

Let's face it, behaviour change is hard... really hard. 

You know what you're meant to be doing – more exercise, eating better, sleeping more, reading more books, and the list goes on and on. Back to reality, are you really happy with your daily habits and behaviours? 

This Playbook won't offer you any magical solutions, but it will arm you with practical techniques to shift your behaviours and embed the habits that you really want. 

This Playbook includes the following sections, select a heading to jump to that section.
CHALLENGE YOUR MINDSET
Changing your behaviour will require changing the way you think and relate to your current behaviours. Use these approaches for the best impact.
GROW Model
Whitmore's classic coaching framework can serve as a self-coaching framework to shift and challenge yourself.
SCARF Model
Behaviour is often driven by emotional and subconscious feelings. Rock's SCARF Model is a useful reference to begin to understand what your real obstacles and drivers are.
Systems vs Goals
Goals can be great drivers for behavioural change, but if they just seem intimidating it might be time to refocusing your energy on systems. For example, stop obsessing about writing that book, just focus on writing each day.
Rolestorming
James Clear from Atomic Habit fame points out that core to shifting habits long term is a shift to your identity. Rolestorming is often used to innovate, but can be used to challenge your identity as you ask, for example, 'what would a healthy person do here?' As you mimic that behaviour, soon you'll develop evidence to challenge your current identity that you are a healthy person.
START MAKING CHANGE.
The first few steps are often the hardest, so use these techniques to start building momentum.
Activation Energy
No, it's not just your imagination. Moving into action is often the most difficult step you'll make. Understand it, mitigate and plan for it.
Goal Gradient Effect
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It's easier to trick yourself into thinking you've made progress than you might think. Consider what you've already achieved and acknowledge that to take advantage of the Goal Gradient Effect.
Temporal Landmarks
You'll more likely be able to change your behaviour if you leverage Temporal Landmarks.
Chain Reaction / Domino Effect
Stop trying to change it all, start small and build up momentum. For example, the classic advice for change is to 'make your bed' in the morning and see how that one change can domino into other shifts over the day.
MAKE & EMBED CHANGE.
Time to get serious with embracing and embedding your new behaviours as habits.
COM-B & Behaviour Change Wheel
The summary of 14 change models, COM-B and the associated Behaviour Change Wheel will help you identify what sort of intervention you can make to achieve the behaviours you want.
ADKAR
This classic Change Management model can be used at a personal level, even as a checklist for you to work through key elements to ignite your change journey.
Habit Loop
If you want to change or introduce habits, you need to understand the Habit Loop, Habit Stacking and the power of small, immediate rewards.
Temptation Bundling
Another addition to Habit formation, tie your shoulds to your wants with Temptation Bundling.
Ulysses Pact
We said from the start that behaviour change is hard. That's why it's worth investing in planning to use Ulysses Pacts to tie 'future you' to the path you want.
EAST Framework
And finally, along the same lines as Temptation Bundling, the EAST Framework is your 'Nudge Design Guide' that will help you to stay on track despite yourself.
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