Design the Cue Before the Habit

The reframe: do not start with discipline; start with the moment that calls the habit into action. The Cue A cue is the trigger that tells your brain which routine belongs here. In a workday, good cues are concrete: a calendar event ending, a tab opening, a document being saved, a badge scan, a coffee cup touching the desk. Bad cues are fuzzy: sometime today, when I have time, before I forget. The Routine The routine must be small enough to run when the day is already noisy. Fogg's Tiny Habits approach is useful because it separates habit design from…

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