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date: 2025-02-18
title: Five step coaching habit

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To build an effective new habit, you need five essential components: a reason, a trigger, a micro-habit, effective practice, and a plan.

> Taken from the book "The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever" by Michael Bungay Stanier

- A reason
- A trigger
- A micro habit
- Effective practice
- A plan

Think less about what your habit can do for you, and more about how this new habit will help a person or people you care about.

Plan How to Get Back on Track. Resilient systems build in fail-safes so that when something breaks down, the next step to recover is obvious. Make your habit a resilient system.

[Charles Duhigg](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Habit-Why-What-Change/dp/1847946240) says that there are just five types of triggers: location, time, emotional state, other people, and the immediately preceding action.

Define the new behavior, one that will take sixty seconds or less to do.