Connect with goals at crucial moments

Visit your default future if you don't change

Motivate yourself with vivid stories

Link desired behaviors to your values

Make it a game

Create a personal motivation statement

Change involves learning new skills

Start with a skill scan

Employ deliberate practice

Will is a skill, not a character trait...develop it through deliberate practice

Turn accomplices of your bad habits into friends helping you change

Know who perpetuates your bad habits (accomplices) and who helps you change (friends)

Redefine "normal"

Get a coach

Hold a transformation conversation to turn an accomplice into a coach or fan

Add new friends

Distance yourself from the unwilling

Link short-term rewards and punishments to the new habits you're trying to form

Use carrots and the threat of losing carrots

Use incentives in moderation

Reward small wins

Change your environment to help you focus on goals

Build fences: things you will not do, places you will not go

Keep good things close and convenient and bad things distant and difficult

Use visual cues

Make desired behavior the default behavior

Use tools such as computers, calendars, your phone, a change log and others to keep your goals in mind