Habit Stacking
Habit Stacking
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Using Habit Stacking...
provides a scaffold into building positive habits
creates a clear process in combining habits for larger impact
efficiently moves habits in the target direction
Implementation
Implementation
Overview
When it comes to building new habits, you can use the connectedness of behavior to your advantage.
One of the best ways to build a new habit is to identify a current habit you already do each day and then stack your new behavior on top. This is called habit stacking.
Habit stacking is a special form of an implementation intention. Rather than pairing your new habit with a particular time and location, you pair it with a current habit. This method, which was created by BJ Fogg as part of his Tiny Habits program, can be used to design an obvious cue for nearly any habit.
Fogg's Habit stacking formula is:
"After I [CURRENT HABIT], I will [NEW HABIT]."
Core Components
The key is to tie your desired behavior into something you already do each day. Once you have mastered this basic structure, you can begin to create larger stacks by chaining small habits together. This allows you to take advantage of the natural momentum that comes form one behavior leading into the next a positive version of the Diderot effect. (Clear, Atomic Habits, pg. 72)
Proactive Implementation
Proactively implementing Habit Stacking may look like introducing students to the concept of habits and allowing them to select a habit they would like to create. The students then can identify a current habit and determine what the stack could look like.
Responsive Implementation
Responsively implementing Habit Stacking may stem from a need to increase a specific behavior. If a student, group, or class struggles to consistently do something they want to become a habit then habit stacking may benefit them. Students should be introduced to the concept of habits and be given time to identify current habits and where a stack could occur.
Bucket fits
Bucket fits
Connection
If the need is connection then habit stacking may be utilized with relationship habits that already exist. Strengthen current habits with the people we care most about can be extremely powerful.
Skills Training
If the need is skill building then habit stacking can leverage our strengths that are habit already with our growths.
Awareness
If the need is awareness then writing out and monitoring stacks can build awareness of consistency and what current habits current exist.
Emotional Regulation
If the need is regulation then adding in time for a regulation or coping strategy in combination of a stack may benefit can indvidual.
Consider Factors Prior to Start
Student factors-
Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships
Contextual factors -
Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology
Intensifying or Fading During
Duration
Frequency
Feedback
Reinforcement
Goals
REMINDER
Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.
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