
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

Here’s what it’s like to live with SuperFridge. When I open our fridge, I see a bunch of glass containers filled with food ready to eat. The broccoli is in one container already washed and cut up. Same with the cauliflower, celery, peppers, and onions. There’s a container with cooked quinoa. I see fresh fruit and boiled eggs ready for a quick
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To review: Clarify your aspiration or outcome, generate a big set of behavior options, and match yourself with specific Golden Behaviors. That’s how you put Behavior Design into practice in your own life.
BJ PhD Fogg • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
“After you do your new habit, celebrate.”
BJ PhD Fogg • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
In order to design successful habits and change your behaviors, you should do three things. Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.
BJ PhD Fogg • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
Here’s a key insight: Behaviors that ultimately become habits will reliably fall above the Action Line.
BJ PhD Fogg • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
There are three types of prompts in our lives: Person Prompts, Context Prompts, and Action Prompts.
BJ PhD Fogg • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
To change that, you have four options as shown in the next graphic.
BJ PhD Fogg • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
By asking what I call the Discovery Question, What is making this behavior hard to do? we are lasering in on which factor is likely to cause us the most trouble.
BJ PhD Fogg • Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
Will it help you do what you already want to do? Will it help you feel successful?