The path to breaking bad habits is making your…
The path to breaking bad habits is making your desired behavior the default behavior. To get on track with the report, I told my colleagues that until the report was submitted, I'd buy them all lunch if they caught me with my email open before 11:00 a.m. My being competitive and not wanting to buy them lunch created enough friction to keep me from checking it first thing in the morning.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Clear Thinking: The Art and Science of Making Better Decisions by Shane Parrish
In the book
Become the person, and the behavior follows. You can change your own traits by consistently behaving like the kind of person you want to be — acting your way into a new self rather than waiting to feel like it; pretend, if you must, until the pretense becomes who you are. Do not rely on willpower — design your world. The self is conflicted and willpower is weak, so rather than fighting yourself, arrange your surroundings to nudge you toward the behavior you wish you wanted; make the good thing the default and the bad thing inconvenient. Decide before the moment, not in it. Plan in advance for the challenges you know will come, so that you are not making the decision in the heat of temptation — you have already decided how you will behave. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)