To actually change behavior/reach your goals, he found the following four steps are key:
- Make it obvious. Make sure the environment supports your choice. Give yourself prompts/cues to get started, and start (over and over again).
- Make it attractive. Remember what you benefit, hold the feeling you are wanting to achieve in mind.
- Make it easy. Remove friction anywhere you can.
- Make it satisfying. Make sure the actions you take to get there are fun, rewarding, fulfilling enough to get you to do it/begin again even when it's hard.
Some other key points he makes that resonate for me are
- There's not ONE WAY to change behavior, but the above keys can be applied to many different approaches.
- Different phases of life will require different habits to achieve maximum enjoyment. ADAPTABILITY is key.
- Doing something is almost always infinitely better than doing nothing.
- Set the minimum bar low so it is easy to start/hard to talk yourself out of, even on the hard/bad weather days.
What are some of your favorite takeaways?