{"id":486,"date":"2011-08-30T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2011-08-30T18:13:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T22:13:35","slug":"486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Forget forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/horizon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-489\" title=\"horizon\" src=\"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/horizon1-170x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Near the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/captology\/stanford-6401325\">Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change<\/a> list is #9: seeking to change a behavior forever, not for a short time. As you might expect, Fogg &amp; gang suggest that a fixed period works better than &#8220;forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Number 9 takes us back to now, the only time frame we have. As soon as we think we can change behavior tomorrow, we&#8217;re out of the world of action and into the world of fiction. We can only change behavior right now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, most of us believe we have to plan if we want to get important things done. Planning is a skeleton for action, so it turns tomorrow or next month into a wish with a deadline. Forever is such a distant horizon that it\u2019s just a formula for frustration.<\/p>\n<p>My horizon for personal planning is about one year, max. My leadership clients used to create strategic plans in 5-year increments, but I&#8217;ve not seen a 5-year plan since 2009. Most are 1 to 3 years these days. Many times, the more we plan, the less flexible and adaptable we become. We marry our plans, and then get annoyed with anything that disrupts them &#8230; and are no longer open to what&#8217;s unfolding in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you want to change? And how long before you&#8217;ll want to change IT, too?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the end of the Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change list is #9: seeking to change a behavior forever, not for a short time. As you might expect, Fogg &amp; gang suggest that a fixed period works better than &#8220;forever.&#8221; Number 9 takes us back to now, the only time frame we have. As&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-leading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}