Blogs about: Self Shaping
Featured Blog
Going to sleep with TWD: Acting As If and Intentional Questions
Do you ever have trouble falling asleep when you go to bed? I rarely have any difficulty. Most nights my head hits the pillow and within five minutes I’m out. As per usual I take the experience … more →
Thought/Word/Deed
Going to sleep with TWD: Acting As If and Intentional Questions
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Do you ever have trouble falling asleep when you go to bed? I rarely have any difficulty. Most night … more →
Getting up in the morning: A challenge
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Getting out of bed in the morning. What a simple task. Very straight forward. The alarm clock goes o … more →
Small steps to big change: Part two
wrote 1 year ago: What is in the nature of small steps that makes them valuable? They are action. Action is what creat … more →
Small steps to big change: Part one
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Have you ever considered that you are exactly the person you have decided to be? For some of you, th … more →
The Strategies: Worth the bother?
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve introduced to you eight different strategies derived from behavior analysis. If you look … more →
Strategy #8: Develop an incompatible behavior
wrote 1 year ago: When you have a behavior that you don’t want anymore the difficulty you face is how natural it … more →
Strategy #7: Give yourself negative consequences to avoid
wrote 1 year ago: This can be fun. If you like laughing at yourself and perhaps have others join in. When negative yie … more →
Strategy #6: Limit the environment of the behavior
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: This is a subtle strategy that is an offshoot of Strategy #5. It is another way to deal with a behav … more →
Strategy #5: Make the behavior more difficult to do
wrote 1 year ago: If you remember Strategy #2, today we are looking at the exact opposite approach. Now we are trying … more →
Strategy #4: Make your reinforcement into a game
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: This is a fun way to shape your own behavior. It appeals to your competitive side. The best part is … more →
Strategy #3: Using behavior as consequence.
wrote 1 year ago: This is my favorite strategy for getting myself to take action. It is an elegant model of self-reinf … more →
Integrity is vital to behavior change strategies
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: I feel I need to address the principle of Integrity before we go any further with our study of behav … more →
Strategy #2: Make it easier to do the behavior
— 1 comment
wrote 1 year ago: What happens before a behavior is called the antecedent. You learned this in the post about the ABC … more →
Strategy #1: Mental rehearsal of goal behavior
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: The lowest risk activity you can do learning a new behavior is to imagine yourself doing it. Even ir … more →
The four consequences that shape behavior
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: There are only four consequences of behavior. When you act one of four things will happen to you. Th … more →
The ABCs of behavior (or Behavior, like nature, abhors a vacuum)
wrote 1 year ago: I had suggested you begin Self-Identity Shaping using the simple technique of self-praise. I had als … more →
