Design your environment for success
A physical and digital environment redesigned so good habits are the default and bad ones take real effort — willpower barely required.
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Who it's for
People who rely on willpower, keep giving in to the same temptations, and want their surroundings to do the work.
Who it's NOT for
Those looking for motivation tips rather than changing their physical and digital spaces.
About this playbook
You don't need more discipline, you need a better environment. Inspired by the environment-design principle in Atomic Habits: make good behaviors obvious and easy, bad ones invisible and hard. Your surroundings quietly decide most of your day, so you'll audit them, redesign your spaces and devices, and build systems that keep the design intact.
What you'll do, step by step
4 phases · 14 steps
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You can't redesign what you haven't noticed, and you can't redesign everything at once. Decide what you're changing, then map how your current spaces are already nudging you.
- 1Pick the one or two behaviors you'll redesign aroundFree preview12 min
Before you move a single object, decide what you're actually redesigning for. Pick one good behavior you want more of and one bad one you want less of — that's it.
I've watched people, myself included, try to fix their whole life in a weekend and land back at zero by Wednesday. Two behaviors you can build a real design around beats ten you'll abandon.
You're done when
One good behavior to encourage and one bad behavior to discourage, written down.
Tip
Pick the behaviors with the biggest daily payoff, not the ones that sound impressive. Small and frequent compounds faster than big and rare.
Watch out
Don't try to change ten things at once. Split attention means weak design, and weak design drops you right back onto willpower.
- 2Map the cues in your physical spacesFree preview40 min
Now walk your home and workspace like a stranger and write down every cue that sets off a behavior. The chips sitting on the counter, the TV pointed straight at the couch, the pile by the door.
Most of what you do is an automatic answer to whatever's in front of you, and most of those cues you stopped noticing long ago. Naming them is what makes them movable.
- Walk through each space you spend time in
- Note every cue and the behavior it triggers
- Mark each one as helping or hurting you
You're done when
A written list of the main cues in your physical spaces and the behavior each one triggers.
Tip
Watch what you reach for without deciding to. The things you touch on autopilot are the cues doing the most work on you.
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What you need first
Willingness to rearrange your spaces and devices, and one or two behaviors you want to change.
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About the creator
Freelancer & indie maker. I write the playbooks I wish I'd had when I started earning online.