The Power & Self-control to Make & Break Habits

The sixth step consists of revising the plan as needed and resuming implementation until the goals are achieved and replacement behavior has become entrenched as part of the behavioral repertoire of the individual.

The fourth step consists of specifying procedures or strategies that will be implemented to achieve the goals.

The third step is to identify the goal or goals, which can be defined as either reduction or absence of the problem habit behavior, or as new replacement behavior.

The second step is to define the habit in terms that can be measured; this usually means identifying the specific behaviors that comprise the habit.

The first step to changing a habit is deciding which habit to target.