In order to design successful habits and change your behaviors, you should do three things.

• Stop judging yourself.

• Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors.

• Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.

To generate lots of behavior options, you can use the following categories during your own Magic Wanding sessions.

• What behaviors would you do one time? 

• What new habits would you create? 

• What habit would you stop?

After you come up with each behavior wish, think to yourself, Great. What else? and keep going. Eventually, you will have a Swarm of Behaviors that will range from wacky to logical to surprising. And that’s a good thing.

What I’ve found in my research and years of experience is that your answer will involve at least one of five factors. I call them the Ability Factors. Here’s how they break down.

• Do you have enough time to do the behavior? 

• Do you have enough money to do the behavior? 

• Are you physically capable of doing the behavior? 

• Does the behavior require a lot of creative or mental energy? 

• Does the behavior fit into your current routine or does it require you to make adjustments?

Steps in Behavior Design:

Step 1: Clarify the Aspiration

Step 2: Explore Behavior Options

Step 3: Match with Specific Behaviors

Step 4: Start Tiny

Step 5: Find a Good Prompt

Step 6: Celebrate Successes

Steps in Behavior Design:

Step 1: Clarify the Aspiration

Step 2: Explore Behavior Options

Step 3: Match with Specific Behaviors

Step 4: Start Tiny

Step 5: Find a Good Prompt

Step 6: Celebrate Successes

Step 7: Troubleshoot, Iterate, & Expand