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Design Your Environment — Make Good Choices Easy
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Welcome back to Smarter in 10, I'm David Peterson from the DMP Education Group. Today we're focusing on an incredibly powerful strategy: designing your environment to make good choices easy. Often, we believe that achieving our goals requires extraordinary willpower. However, the most successful individuals know that willpower is finite and unreliable, and they instead strategically shape their surroundings to support their ambitions.
Why is environment design so crucial? It significantly influences our behaviors, often subconsciously. By deliberately structuring your environment, you naturally guide yourself toward beneficial choices without constant conscious effort or strain on your self-control.
Consider this: If you want to eat healthier, keeping fruits and vegetables easily accessible on your kitchen counter while placing unhealthy snacks out of sight or completely removing them from your home greatly increases the likelihood you'll choose nutritious options. Similarly, if your goal is to improve productivity, creating a clean, distraction-free workspace with clear boundaries around work and leisure time boosts focus and efficiency.
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