Habit List
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Like any good procrastinator, they end up delaying the start of the next attempt because of their latest failure, until they stop trying altogether.
For instance, some years ago I worked with a client who smoked a pack-and-a-half of cigarettes a day. It’s not easy to go from smoking 20+ cigarettes a day to zero! Prior to seeing me, the advice he always received was to go "cold turkey.” Unfortunately, he quickly lost faith in his ability to quit after unsuccessfully trying to do it a number of times. There’s a very good reason this client couldn’t quit and gave up trying. He, like many of us, was too reliant on willpower.
