Optimal Defaults Checklist

Our environments unconsciously impact our rate of success or failure in making lasting change. We’ll eventually weaken and succumb when we’re in an environment full of temptations. No matter how much we want to resist, our limited supply of willpower eventually wears out.

By the same token, when we’re in environments where all our options are conducive to a desired behavior, every choice is the right choice! Creating a default activity, where we don’t have to wrestle with a choice, saves willpower. When we create a default activity aligned with a behavior change we’re trying to make, it’s called an optimal default. Optimal defaults almost guarantee our behaviors and choices support our values and goals, and they happen automatically.

Here are over 100 Optimal Defaults to help you make change easily and successfully!

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