How to coach yourself

The standard model of behavior change is silly. Come read about my much weirder systems model!

Around the new year, people start thinking about goals and resolutions. I’ve written tips on how to create better resolutions — ones that are less likely to immediately fail — but after thinking about it for a while (I wrote that almost 9 years ago), I think it’s jumping the gun a bit. Before I talk about coaching yourself, let me back up a bit and talk about two different ways to think about self-change. Then we’ll go into why coaching…