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Tiny bj8/18/2023 ![]() Once you know the “why”, then you can focus on the “how”. Losing excess body fat - particularly visceral body fat - is almost always a positive thing and will improve your health and your energy.Ĭlarifying Your Aspiration helps you identify “why” you want to make a change. Maybe your goal really is just to lose weight, and that’s a great goal. It's very important to get clarity at this step because the answer you come up with will change the space of relevant solutions.Ĭontinuing with the example above: what if you didn't lose any weight on the scale, but you lost body fat and gained muscle mass? Would that be considered a success? Or, what if you took a public speaking class to overcome a lifetime fear of speaking and suddenly you had massive confidence in social situations? Would you still feel like you needed to lose weight? Life is complex and there are many ways to accomplish a given aspiration.įor example, let's say that you state your goal as "I want to lose weight". Is that really what you want? Is it about losing weight, or is the real aspiration to feel more comfortable in your own skin? Or perhaps you want to feel like you have more control over your life? There may be "best practices" or generally agreed-upon solutions for accomplishing your goal, but we must be careful that we don't fall into the trap of closed-minded or dogmatic thinking. Successful habit change always results in a change in identity.Ĭlarify Your Aspiration is a critical first step because there isn’t a single "right" way to get what you want. You'll notice that some of these questions sound familiar from our discussion about identity in James Clear's model. What kind of person do you want to become? What do you want to accomplish with your new habit? If any of the three elements are missing, the behavior won't happen."īefore creating a new habit or changing an existing one, the first question you should always ask yourself is, " Why do I want to make a change? " In summary, when Motivation, Ability, and a Prompt come together at the same moment, that's when a behavior will occur. This model applies to all types of human behavior. Either we need an increase in motivation, or the behavior needs to be easier to do, or both. If someone is below the Action Line, we need to get them above it for the Prompt to instigate the behavior. However, if they are below the Action Line when prompted, they won't do the behavior. In this case, they will donate to the Red Cross. If someone is anywhere above the Action Line when prompted, they will do the behavior. This curved line, called the Action Line, shows that relationship. There's a relationship between Motivation and Ability. ![]() When that person is Prompted, they will not do the behavior. In contrast, if someone has low Motivation to donate to the Red Cross, and if it's Hard for them to do, they will be here in the lower-left corner. When a person here gets Prompted to donate, they will do the donation behavior. If they have high Motivation, and if it's Easy for that person to do, they will be here (in the upper-right corner of the model). Suppose you want someone to donate to the Red Cross. On the left side of this axis are behaviors that are "hard to do". On the right side is high Ability, and I'll label that side as "easy to do". ![]() Along the horizontal axis is the Ability to do a behavior. Along the vertical axis is the level of Motivation for a behavior, and it can range anywhere from high to low. You can visualize this model in two dimensions.
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